Articles for Topic: python
Integrate markItUp! Into the Django Admin
Published 3 months 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.
Time to Write That Beginning Python Book
Published 4 months, 1 week 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 4 months, 1 week 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.
TOYARTLP (The Obligatory "Yet Another Reason to Love Python")
Published 4 months, 2 weeks ago
I felt I should just get this one out of the way. You know, those moments where we just can't resist describing to the rest of the world some inane detail of our programming language and why knowing this detail makes our language so cool - and by transitive nature our own coolness. So here it is:
