Working with the Django admin and legacy databases, pt.3

Posted by: barbara | Date: May 01, 2009 | Category: django | Comments: 4

Part 1 | Part 2

After you've run inspectdb and done all your syncing and basic admin setup, take a peek at the models you generated - depending on the state of your legacy db, you've probably wound up with something that looks like this (column names have ...

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Working with the Django admin and legacy databases, pt.2

Posted by: barbara | Date: Apr 26, 2009 | Category: django | Comments: 5

By this time, I'm several weeks into the project and it's time to get you all caught up - let's see if I can break this down into digestable bites.

(Btw, don't expect it to you take this long - this isn't an officially sanctioned work project for me, so ...

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Working with the Django admin and legacy databases, pt.1

Posted by: barbara | Date: Apr 16, 2009 | Category: django | Comments: 3

This is most likely going to be at least a three-parter, and I'm not getting into any code samples in this first one. I just wanted to give some background into the project I'm working on, so feel free to skip ahead.

As of this writing, I'm working at a ...

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Generating seed data for PHPUnit tests

Posted by: barbara | Date: Apr 16, 2009 | Category: python | Comments: 0
I'm working on a pretty massive test harness for a custom framework extension - I won't bore anyone with the details, but I'm using PHPUnit, and for our particular implementation I needed to generate large numbers of XML files to seed a test database with about 80 tables. Two things ...

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On being a girl in a guy's world

Posted by: barbara | Date: Apr 15, 2009 | Category: girl geeks | Comments: 28

The question has been raised on many occasions: Why there aren't more women in the Python community, or even the programming community at large?

I have at least one answer: It's hard to trust that our colleagues are going to treat us as equals.

I'd like to be able to ...

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