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OpenID delegation under Django and lighttpd
There’s been lots and lots and lots of buzz around OpenID in the last couple weeks, which makes me happy because OpenID is a pretty ...
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My site is smarter than I am
Looking through my stats today, I found an incoming link from a blog
written entirely in Chinese. Now, I don’t read Chinese (I know about
...
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Django tips: get the most out of generic views
Recently at work I had the chance to revisit an application I’d
written fairly early on in my tenure at World Online; I was still ...
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Django tips: auto-populated fields
One of these days I’m going to run out of frequently-asked Django
questions to answer. But today isn’t that day, so let’s look at one ...
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Django and NIH
Just so you know, Django is a smug, arrogant framework that doesn’t
play nice with others. The developers are smug, arrogant assholes who
don’t care ...
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How I got here
I’m not a formally-trained programmer. I wasn’t a computer science
major in college (my degree is in philosophy), and my first job after
graduation didn’t ...
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Heads up
If you’re a regular reader of my blog it will be purely remedial reading, but an article I wrote about Django is up at ...
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Django tips: laying out an application
Continuing the theme of dealing with common questions from the Django mailing lists and IRC channel, today we’ll look at how to ...
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Django tips: documentation and resources
Django’s official documentation often draws praise for being well above average for an open-source project, but it’s far from being the only source of ...
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Django tips: user registration
One of the most common and, generally, most successful models for
letting people sign up for user accounts requires the user to go
through some ...
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Friday fun
It’s the end of the week and, while I’ve got plenty of things I could write about, I’m sort of tired and burned out. So ...
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The best of all worlds
Every once in a while, someone will complain on the Django users mailing list that they feel our ORM doesn’t offer all the ...
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Django tips: using properties on models and managers
While working on a little side project this week, I ran into a couple of very common use cases that often result in a lot ...
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Django tips: A simple AJAX example, part 2
Last time around we looked at how to write a simple view which processes a form and either returns errors or returns success, ...
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Django tips: A simple AJAX example, part 1
One thing that’s come up over and over again in the Django IRC channel and on the mailing lists is the need ...
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Helpers, scaffolding, tradeoffs and other stuff
In one of the very, very few coherent things I’ve seen him say in comments posted here and elsewhere, one Lucas Carlson brought up ...
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Django tips: Hacking FreeComment
Django’s bundled comments application (found in django.contrib.comments) is incredibly useful; it gives you a nice, out-of-the-box system for adding comments to any site. But, if ...
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JavaScript, ORM and “hiding SQL”
So my little rant on AJAX support in Django apparently touched a nerve with a couple people; that means it’s time to write more ...
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Django tips: scaling an application
In today’s ripped-from-the-mailing-list Django tip, we’ll be looking
at a common scaling pattern: an application which starts out with one
user, then has to gain ...
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Django and AJAX
One hot topic that keeps coming up over and over again on the Django mailing lists and in IRC has to do ...
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Django tips: the difference between ‘blank’ and ‘null’
New users of Django, even people who have lots of experience writing
database-driven applications, often run into a seemingly simple
problem: how do you set ...
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Django tips: Template context processors
Last time around we looked at how to write an effective template tag, with the focus on writing a flexible template tag that would ...
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How Django processes a request
In a comment he left yesterday, Jonathan Snook posed an excellent challenge: document the chain of how Django processes a request, from start to ...
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Django tips: Write better template tags
Django‘s template tags are a great way to handle things that don’t always make sense being in a view. If you want to ...
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Django tips: extending the User model
One of Django‘s great strengths is its built-in user and authentication system; the bundled application django.contrib.auth includes models for users, user groups and permissions ...
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Templating languages redux
So, I thought I’d explained why templating languages are pretty useful things. Markup is, after all, just about the fastest and simplest way to, ...
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Why templating languages aren’t a bad idea
Before I get into any meaty details, a quick question. You have a
dynamic, database-driven web application and you’re ready to sit down
and bang ...
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Django, gzip and WSGI
One of the many things I like about Django is the range of available middleware you can use to do all sorts of ...
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