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Django 1.0 Template Development Book Review

Packt Publishing was nice enough to send us a copy of Django 1.0 Template Development by Scott Newman for review recently. I get most of my technical information via the web, so picking up a technical book was a nice change of pace. This is a well written and enjoyable read for people looking to learn a little more about Django than what is provided in the Django tutorial.

Easy Fabric Deployment, Part 2: Multiple Committers and the Dreaded Umask

In part 1, we showed how we use Fabric to update and deploy Django sites to our development server with a single command. This works great when you only have one developer pushing changes to the server, but what happens when multiple committers need to update the development server?

Easy Fabric Deployment, Part 1: Git/Mercurial and SSH

We’re firm believers in the practices described by the Continuous Integration method of software engineering. Among those are: Maintain a code repository Automate the build Automate deployment We use git for our code repositories and Fabric to automate our build/deployment process. The tiny bit of overhead it take to write out a Fabric script pays off very quickly against the tedium and error-prone practice of manually building/deploying. In building our “fabfile”, we encountered a couple of issues that took a little head-scratching to work out.

Using Django Inside the Tornado Web Server

Inspired by Eric Florenzano’s talk, Using Django in Non-Standard Ways at DjangoCon and the announcement of Tornado (http://www.tornadoweb.org/), I decided to try building a small application using the Django Form library and Django ORM inside Tornado. The process proved easier than I expected…

Customizing the Django Admin at EuroDjangoCon 2009

A summary of our talk about customizing the Django admin in Prague for EuroDjangoCon ‘09.

Highlighting Named Anchors with jQuery

How to improve the usability of named anchors via jQuery

Django Best Practices

Announcing our Django Best Practices documentation project and the reasoning behind it.

Open Source Government

Recovery.gov is running on open source software and the love doesn’t stop there.

Satchmo Screencast

Adding products with variations in Satchmo 0.8.1.

Simple & Easy Deployment with Fabric and Virtualenv

An introduction to our internal buildout script for Django projects built on top of Fabric.