East Coast vs. West Coast - It's On

Posted by: barbara | Date: Apr 06, 2009 | Category: django | Comments: 1

Django Dash, "a chance for Django enthusiasts to flex their coding skills", is coming at the end of May. The idea is to give developers a weekend to build a site - any site - with high scores given to those that are the most polished at the end ...

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Quick and dirty "what I'm reading" plugin

Posted by: barbara | Date: Nov 22, 2008 | Category: django | Comments: 3

(Note: that partner id in the absolute_url below is mine. I won't object if you want to use it, but you might be better off signing up for your own: Powells.com Partner Program)

The model:

 class Book(models.Model): RATING_CHOICES = ( ('1', '1'), ('2', '2'), ('3', '3'), ...

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Taking the ugly out of Django comments

Posted by: barbara | Date: Nov 07, 2008 | Category: django | Comments: 23
Django comments are pretty easy to implement - most of what you need to get access to the app and template tags is covered in the documentation:

http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/comments/

Regarding the template tags - you should be able to figure out what properties the ...

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Multiple database connection: a simple use case

Posted by: barbara | Date: Oct 15, 2008 | Category: django | Comments: 2
A few days ago, I posted (here and on Google's Django Users group) about my particular multi-DB situation. In brief, we have two different projects (and possibly more going forward) that have unique codebases and separate databases, but will share at least one object, a common type of content.

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An as-yet unsolved multi-DB problem

Posted by: barbara | Date: Oct 09, 2008 | Category: django | Comments: 0
Originally posted to the Django users group:

    "We're building a couple of different projects - one social network-y site, and one that's bloglike. So each has its own unique database, but they do share one common set of content.

    I've created a third ...

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