A fix for your fixtures and your models subdir
October 27th, 2009
For those of you who keep your models in a subdirectory, you may have noticed that you can't properly load fixtures. This is because Django checks for the location of ...
Posts tagged with django
A better way to handle settings files
October 23rd, 2009
At work, we tend to have several people working on a project at once. When its time to deploy, we deploy to several servers at once. One pain point that ...
6 things I learned about setuptools
July 5th, 2009
While building pyvcs and django-vcs over 4th of July weekend with Alex Gaynor [ announcement ], there were a few interesting lessons learned, mostly revolving around how setuptools works. As ...
Using Database Views in Django
June 20th, 2009
Database Views will make their appearance in the upcoming Django 1.1 release. Having used them for my latest project, there are a few gotchas when it comes to using them. ...
Customizing Django Forms with Multiwidget
April 27th, 2009
Before my talk at django-nyc tonight, I thought it might be good to post some slides so I can point people at where to find the code and slides from ...
psycopg2 InternalError ?
March 13th, 2009
For those who've hit the following complaint with django (like I just did): psycopg2.InternalError: current transaction is aborted, commands ignored until end of transaction block You need to set up ...
A better look for Comments
February 9th, 2009
I've been in the process of unforking my code from brosner's oebfare blogging engine. In doing so, I've decided to remove some of the pain points along the way. For ...
Django App Engine Doc Fix
February 6th, 2009
For those setting up Django on Google App Engine on version after the signals refactor, the following fix is needed for the code supplied by Google. # Log errors. django.dispatch.dispatcher.connect( ...
Django at 30,000ft Presentation
January 17th, 2009
I recently gave a talk at this past django-nyc meeting based on my article in PyMag. While the slides likely won't make much sense without hearing me talk over them, ...
Domain Sniffing Middleware
December 12th, 2008
My first project for the new job has been creating an internationalized version of the website. I think it also serves as a good test run for how django works ...
A quick update with gifts!
December 5th, 2008
I'm safely in NYC and I'm slowly getting acclimated to it. There is no wifi at the place, so posts have all but stopped. When I get a more stable ...
The Next Leg of the Journey
November 13th, 2008
A few close friends already know about this, but I have been offered a job in New York City with the amazing folks at Huge Inc where I'll be working ...
A Django Portfolio Application
November 11th, 2008
As I near the end of my run with AiO, I've been asked to come up with a portfolio. This has been pretty time consuming as there have been several ...
Watch the paint on the walls
November 6th, 2008
Well, here it is. Redesign time. The old design of justinlilly.com left much to be desired in terms of spacing and font choice. After staring at Georgia for a few ...
django-voting: a brief tutorial
November 4th, 2008
In honor of the election day today, I'd like to give a quick tutorial on django-voting, a reusable application which gives you reddit-style voting capabilities on generic objects. Django-Voting, itself, ...
Django, PyISAPIe and IIS
November 3rd, 2008
For those poor souls, much like myself, who are forced to deploy Django on IIS.. I feel your pain. I spent the better part of my morning fixing a broken ...
Django at 30,000ft: A Manager's View.
September 26th, 2008
Those who follow this blog have likely heard me mention it, but for those who haven't, I have a recently published article in Python Magazine titled "Django at 30,000ft: A ...
Gencal Update
August 22nd, 2008
I'm currently working with someone much better at programming than I am, <a title="Eric Abrahamsen" href="http://ericabrahamsen.net/">Eric Abrahamsen</a>, to refactor and rethink gencal. For those who have made your way here, ...
Django version 1.0 beta 1
August 14th, 2008
Congratulations to all involved in Django 1.0 beta 1's release! Can't wait for DjangoCon for the 1.0 release party!
Simple Gencal
July 7th, 2008
I've just released simple_gencal which is the tag referenced in my previous post. I'll be working towards better documentation, error checking and such in the coming weeks. Just figured I'd ...
Gencal Status
June 11th, 2008
Looking back at gencal's codebase, I was a bit ashamed to find how poorly laid out it was. It took me quite some time to figure out exactly how to ...
Django GenCal
June 9th, 2008
Having killed the old blog, I've decided not to migrate the posts over. That being said, I think there was some solid information in those posts so I'd like to ...
