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Queryset-Refactor Lands in Trunk
Published 1 week, 5 days ago
Good news over the weekend as Malcolm Tredinnick announced the merge of the Queryset-Refactor branch into the trunk of the Django repository.
A Delicious Perspective on Popular Django Projects
Published 1 week, 6 days ago
A sampling of the some of the most popular Django projects according to Delicious data.
Find Apps to Wire Up Your Django Site at Django Plugables
Published 3 weeks, 5 days ago
A new site produced by Revyver has aggegrated many of the actively developed and usable Django apps that exist out there in the wild. The site will become a very useful one-stop resource for researching and finding all the components you need to quickly realize a new Django site.
Integrate markItUp! Into the Django Admin
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
markItUp! is a JavaScript plugin built on the jQuery library that allows you to turn any textarea into a markup editor. In this article I detail the steps I took to integrate it into the Django admin for working with the Markdown syntax.
DjangoGears: Django and TurboGears to Merge
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
The Django and TurboGears projects have decided to merge their code bases to form one single super framework.
Two New Django Community Sites
Published 1 month, 1 week ago
Two news sites have been released this week which should be beneficial to the Django community: DjangoFriendly and DjangoPost
PyCon 2008: Django Now Plays on the "Dark Side"
Published 1 month, 3 weeks ago
We can now add to the list of virtual machines that will run Django (at least from an academic standpoint).
PyCon 2008: Django (Pre-) Announces Nonprofit Organization
Published 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Adrian Holovaty began "The State of Django" presentation by saying that at the conclusion there would be an announcement about Django. Jacob Kaplan-Moss informed the crowd that they were in the process of forming a Django non-profit organization. This will be a great step forward for the project in many ways.
PyCon 2008: State of Django by Adrian Holovaty
Published 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Adrian Holovaty took the stage on Friday afternoon to talk about developments in the Django code and community during the past year and to highlight upcoming changes that will help Django prepare for the coveted 1.0 release.
DjangoSearch - Focused Search Results for Django
Published 2 months ago
DjangoSearch is becoming a nice resource for finding Django-related information - be it reference material, articles, tutorials, example code, pluggable apps, etc. DjangoSearch is a Google Custom Search Engine and is based on a carefully selected set of URLs that have highly relevant content. Alrond (site creator) is accepting suggestions for URLs to add and he will accept suggestions after performing a quick quality review on the content on the suggested site. This will help ensure that search results are probably relevant to what users are looking for. Many users will probably be happy to see options for searching in several languages. Additionally he offers feeds of articles in over a dozen different languages. If you a Firefox fan, you can also grab a search bar plugin. I've added a DjangoSearch widget to my sidebar just below the search box for Unbracketed (which is also based on a Google CSE).
I'm already in the habit of checking there first and falling back on GOOG or the other ol' standbys in the rare event nothing surfaces. There are some additional handy links on the site - go check it out!
Time for a Django Documentation Evolution
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago
As Django continues to mature - or more importantly as it captures more media mind share - people from many different camps will want to see what the hype is about. For those entrenched in another platform or web framework, comparisons will be made between features and methodology. For those new to web development, a desire to feel like one is grasping the basics and getting tangible results without a big learning curve can have a big influence. IT managers and system administrators will want to confirm that it can be deployed and scaled without hassle (or conversely they'll be desperately looking for reasons to justify extending their $100,000 proprietary licensing and support fees for another year).
In each case, an important element will help the investigative process: accessible relevant literature.
Time to Write That Beginning Python Book
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I came across an Amazon listing for a pre-sale book geared to beginning Python programmers. I am hoping that the ad contains a typo in the price. If not, I may have found a new career calling.
Frameworkology 101 Homework
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago
I've collected a few articles that give fairly humble assessments of the perceived trade-offs of the differing design approaches of Python's currently popular web frameworks. Refreshingly civil in their discourse, there is a lot of great insight about the approaches taken by Turbogears, Pylons, and Django. It sounds like the authors are in agreement that there remains a lot of work to do in terms of educating developers using those frameworks how to struture their applications in ways that are best suited to the framework's design.
Django Sites for Pixel-Challenged Displays
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Nathan Borror of Playground Blues describes how he enabled his site to support mobile browsers during a mid-afternoon coding session in a local cafe.
Who Doesn't Love a Good Plot?
Published 2 months, 2 weeks ago
Jacob Kaplan-Moss has made some template tags for working with Google Charts available. Now you can pretty up those reporting apps and it's like you don't even have to think hard!
