June 27, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
I’m about to print up some Django shirts to take to OSCON next month – got any ideas? We gotta move pretty fast (we’re going to try to get an order in to the printer this week) so if you’ve got any hot ideas (or designs, for that matter) send ’em to me! I’ll mail anyone who gives an idea or a design one of the final shirts, but otherwise please don’t ask about “ordering” or otherwise “getting” one.
Read MoreMay 3, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
Some Django propaganda: Video killed the radio star The talk I gave last week at Google is now up on Google Video. I covered similar ground to what Adrian talked about at Snakes and Rubies so if you haven’t seen that one, watch it, too. Django for non-programmers My friend and colleague Jeff Croft launched his new website built with Django. Jeff has followed it up the launch with an introduction to Django for non-programmers that’s required reading for anything thinking about switch…
Read MoreApril 12, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
Update Ack – I mistyped the date on this page! The meetup will be Thursday, April 27th (not Wednesday as this originally said). Hopefully that still works for anyone planning to come… Later this month, I’m speaking at the MySQL Users Conference in Santa Clara, and I’ll be in town the whole week. I suspect there’s a good number of Django users living in the Bay Area (ha), and I’d like to meet as many of them as I can.
Read MoreMarch 29, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
Brian Beck just announced that he’s beginning work on Merquery, a full-text indexer and search engine specifically designed for developers using RAD frameworks like Django. I’m so excited about this I can barely contain myself. Right now Ellington ships with a search engine built on top of Swish-E. It’s pretty cool, and I’ve been debating cleaning it up and rolling it into django.contrib. However it has a number of major flaws that limit its usefulness:
Read MoreMarch 22, 2006 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
I received at home for free, the CDs with the various versions, of the latest release of the Ubuntu distribution.
Read MoreMarch 2, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
For anyone looking for the Django stuff I showed off at PyCon: Slides from my presentation (PDF version [9 MB]) The Sudoku app I demonstrated Source to the Sudoku app
Read MoreJan. 31, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
Here’s a simple class for a template tag that caches its output (with apologies to Chris Parnell and Andy Samberg): from django.core import template from django.core.cache import cache from django.conf.settings import DEBUG class CachedNode(template.Node): """ Cached template node. Subclasses should define the methods get_cache_key() and get_content() instead of the standard render() method. Subclasses may also define the class attribute cache_timeout to override the default cache timeout…
Read MoreJan. 27, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
Inspired by Guido van Rossum’s plea to be taught web frameworks here are (in no particular order) ten reasons why he — and you — should use Django. 1. Django works — right now Don’t be fooled by the fact that Django’s first release was in July. It’s been under heavy use for over two years, and I’m confident saying it has no show-stopping bugs. I’m tired of hearing that that SomeAwesomeFramework™ will be “great when it’s finished”.
Read MoreJan. 5, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
Yes, the Snakes and Rubies videos are now online. No, they’re not perfect. No, I’m not going to wait for FCP to re-render any more. I’ll write a post-mortem after I’ve gotten some sleep; now go watch Adrian kick major ass.
Read MoreDec. 19, 2005 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
After hearing some rave reviews of Dojo on django-dev, I finally got around to checking it out today. Here are my thoughts (with an obvious focus towards) using Dojo with Django). The good Dojo is extremely powerful. With very little code I was able to make a really nice drag-and-drop reorderable table, complete with nice zebra striping and add/remove row buttons. (Wilson and I are working on a new kick-ass interface for Django’s “edit_inline” admin views, if anyone cares.
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