If you follow strictly Brian Rosner's screencast on converting to newforms-admin, you'll find you suddenly end up with an admin site that takes away User and Group (permissions) editing options. That's no slight against Brian, believe me - it's a great screencast, and I wouldn't have been able to ...

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In like Flynn

"To be quickly and/or emphatically successful."

I was up at 4-fricking-30 this morning, on the off chance that I might be able to get in on the first round of DjangoCon tickets to be released into the wild. I didn't have high hopes - I figured ...

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I wanted a simpler solution than django-pagination. Django-pagination looks easy to implement, particularly thanks to Eric Florenzano's stellar screencast, but the actual installation process isn't very well-documented. Besides, I wanted something that didn't require installing a lot of outside code, and I sure don't want to have ...

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Girls Close the "Math Gap" [Alternet] Gender Similarities Characterize Math Performance [Science Magazine] Girls Bridge Gender Divide in Math [ABC News]

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Let's say I have three simple models - news articles, their categories, and the table that defines which articles are in which categories:

 class Article(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=40, unique=True) body = models.TextField() class Category(models.Model): name = models.CharField(max_length=40, unique=True) class ArticleCategory(models.Model): article = models.ForeignKey(Article) category = models.ForeignKey(Category) 

To get ...

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