Justin Lilly

Congratulations to all involved in Django 1.0 beta 1’s release! Can’t wait for DjangoCon for the 1.0 release party!

Yesterday’s talk at our local Refresh Columbia went extremely well. After a bit of pre-talk jitters, I think it went fairly well. I’ve attached my slides for those interested, which I talked about Django for Designers. It was a very basic overview of how Django makes a designer’s life easier. At the end of the [...]

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 get this out there for people who are interested.

I’m investigating possible syntax changes for Gencal’s template tag having been directed to this post by James Bennett via Marco in a previous post. My thoughts are to split it up into two template tags. A simple template tag which will render one model’s object and a more complex tag (with requisite views) which will [...]

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 get it working and considering I wrote the app, that’s completely unacceptable. Instead of releasing a screencast for a poorly written template tag, I’ll instead [...]

For those who don’t know, django-gencal is a generic calendaring application. It accepts arbitrary objects for plotting on a calendar.