The B-List: Latest entries in category 'Django'

The B-List: Latest entries in category 'Django'http://www.b-list.org/weblog/categories/django/2010-12-24T09:07:30ZJames BennettA stateful problem2010-12-24T09:07:30ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2010-12-24:/weblog/2010/dec/24/states/

<p>So, this week we dropped <a href="http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/dec/22/security/">some security updates</a>, which you should definitely check out if you haven’t seen them yet. </p> <p>We also released <a href="http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/dec/22/13-beta-1/">the first 1.3 beta</a>, which is an important milestone since it means 1.3 is now feature-frozen and will get only bugfix and polishing work until the final release. Quite a few useful things made it in between alpha and beta, and a couple just barely slipped in under the ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2010/dec/24/states/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/django-FUNserver2010-11-01T23:12:44ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2010-11-01:/weblog/2010/nov/01/django-funserver/

<p>Step 1: <code>pip install django-funserver</code> </p> <p>Step 2: Add “funserver” to your <code>INSTALLED_APPS</code>. </p> <p>Step 3: Run <code>manage.py funserver</code>. </p> <p>For best results, don’t do this on a real server. </p> <p>Code is <a href="http://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/django-funserver/src">here</a>, for those interested. </p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2010/nov/01/django-funserver/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/django-registration2009-10-14T02:26:23ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2009-10-14:/weblog/2009/oct/14/registration/

<p>So, life has been eventful lately. There was DjangoCon, which was awesome even though I came away deeply unhappy with how my talk turned out; due to a lot of hectic things going on, it fell far below the standard I usually like to enforce for myself. I’ve got a couple things cooking for PyCon, though, which will hopefully make up for it. Things are starting to ramp up for the Django 1.2 ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2009/oct/14/registration/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/Let's talk about WSGI2009-08-10T05:31:44ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2009-08-10:/weblog/2009/aug/10/wsgi/

<p>Recently Armin Ronacher (whose <a href="http://lucumr.pocoo.org/">blog</a> you should be reading if you do anything at all involving Python and the web) has published a couple of <a href="http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2009/7/30/nih-in-the-wsgi-world">good</a> <a href="http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2009/8/5/pro-cons-about-werkzeug-webob-and-django">articles</a> poking at the current state of <acronym title="Web Server Gateway Interface"><span class="caps">WSGI</span></acronym>, the <a href="http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0333/">standard interface for Python web applications</a>. Some of his comments dovetail nicely into concerns I’ve been trying to put into words for a while now, so I’m glad he’s posting on the subject and providing some context ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2009/aug/10/wsgi/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/On "magic", once again2009-07-23T08:31:13ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2009-07-23:/weblog/2009/jul/23/magic/

<p>So it seems Giles Bowkett <a href="http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2009/07/do-you-believe-in-magic.html">is upset</a> about use of the word “magic”. I’m happy to agree with the general consensus from various fora that <a href="http://christopherroach.com/blog/i-hate-magic-why-django-rocks/">the specific article he’s complaining about</a> is, well, pretty much content-free. I could read that post over and over and still have no idea what actual things the author liked about Django or didn’t like about Rails. But I’ve pretty much learned to ignore content-free hype ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2009/jul/23/magic/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/An update on the book2009-07-07T07:31:06ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2009-07-07:/weblog/2009/jul/07/code/

<p>So, the repository for <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1430219386/">the second edition of Practical Django Projects</a> is not yet done, but due to the general clamor I’m opening up public access; you can browse it, or check out a copy of the code, from <a href="http://bitbucket.org/ubernostrum/practical-django-projects/">its page on Bitbucket</a>. You’ll probably want to have a look over the <span class="caps">README</span> file displayed on that page, since it provides helpful information on how the repository works. </p> <p>Right now the first three ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2009/jul/07/code/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/A fun little bug2009-06-26T02:04:45ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2009-06-26:/weblog/2009/jun/26/fun-little-bug/

<p>About two months ago, I quietly wrote and released <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/django-flashpolicies/">a little Django application which generates cross-domain policy files for Flash</a> (if you’ve never encountered this aspect of Flash, <a href="http://code.google.com/p/doctype/wiki/ArticleFlashSecurityCrossDomain">here’s an introductory article on how it works</a>). I’ve done a bit of hacking on it in my spare time, and I’m pretty happy with it as an example of a simple, tightly-focused application; sometime soon I hope to write a bit more ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2009/jun/26/fun-little-bug/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/Second edition2009-06-23T15:10:09ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2009-06-23:/weblog/2009/jun/23/second-edition/

<p>So just after lunch today a box arrived, containing copies of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1430219386/">the second edition of Practical Django Projects</a>, which went through final editing about a month ago (Apress tends to be pretty quick at getting the book printed and shipping). Since I assume that means other people will be getting copies of the book soon, I’d like to cover a couple important bits of information. </p> <p>First of all, the second edition (as the cover ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2009/jun/23/second-edition/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/PyCon ORM panel liveblog2009-03-28T13:06:13ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2009-03-28:/weblog/2009/mar/28/pycon-orm-panel/

<p>I’m sitting about five rows back in the ballroom at the Hyatt, waiting for the <acronym title="Object-Relational Mapper"><span class="caps">ORM</span></acronym> panel to begin. </p> <p>Panel’s starting. Moderator Alex Gaynor introduces himself and panelists: </p> <ul> <li> Guido van Rossum (App Engine) </li> <li> Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Django) </li> <li> Massimo diPierro (web2py) </li> <li> Ian Bicking (SQLObject) </li> <li> Mike Bayer (SQLALchemy) </li> </ul> <h2>First question: brief history of your <span class="caps">ORM</span></h2> <p>SQLALchemy: wanted to do a <span class="caps">CMS</span>, but never ended up writing it. Had idea for a modular library to talk to ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2009/mar/28/pycon-orm-panel/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/Django 2.02009-01-18T17:37:54ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2009-01-18:/weblog/2009/jan/18/django-20/

<p>So apparently some folks doing business as “Vyper Logix Corp” are peddling a thing they call “Django 2.0”. I’m not going to link it here since they don’t deserve the Google bump, but if you’re interested you can <a href="http://twitter.com/jezdez/status/1128224563">follow the link in Jannis’ tweet where he mentioned it</a>. In fact, with any luck my Google juice will pop this article up above them. </p> <p><span class="dquo">“</span>Django 2.0” is, apparently, built on the ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2009/jan/18/django-20/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/Second editions galore2009-01-09T08:10:01ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2009-01-09:/weblog/2009/jan/09/practical-django/

<p>Adrian <a href="http://www.holovaty.com/blog/archive/2009/01/09/0133">announced today</a> that he’s working on revising <cite>The Definitive Guide to Django</cite> to produce a second edition that covers Django 1.0, which is awesome news for anyone who’s used the book as a guide to learning Django. </p> <p>In the same vein, I’d like to announce something that’s been unofficially mentioned a couple times but never fully clarified: I’m busy working on <a href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/1430219386/">the second edition of Practical Django Projects ...</a></p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2009/jan/09/practical-django/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/Users and the admin2008-12-24T00:22:48ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2008-12-24:/weblog/2008/dec/24/admin/

<p>So, for as long as I can remember the single most-frequently-asked question about the Django admin has been some variation of “how do I set a foreign key to <code>User</code> to automatically be filled in with <code>request.user</code>?” And for a while the answer was that you couldn’t do that, really; it was and still is easy to do with a custom form in your own view, but up until a few months back ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/dec/24/admin/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/Generic inlines and Django history2008-12-04T02:14:26ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2008-12-04:/weblog/2008/dec/04/generic-inlines/

<p>The other day at work I stumbled across my first opportunity to use a relatively-new feature in the Django admin, one which turned what had looked like it would be a fairly nasty task into, basically, a five-minute job (plus staging, testing and deployment, of course, but that happens no matter how long it takes to develop the code). I’ll get to the specifics in a minute, but first I want to give a ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/dec/04/generic-inlines/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/Another take on content negotiation2008-11-29T20:24:39ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2008-11-29:/weblog/2008/nov/29/multiresponse/

<p>Today my co-worker Daniel posted <a href="http://toastdriven.com/fresh/multiresponse/">a class which performs content negotiation for Django views</a>, allowing you to write a single view which returns any of several types of responses (e.g., <acronym title="HyperText Markup Language"><span class="caps">HTML</span></acronym>, <acronym title="JavaScript Object Notation"><span class="caps">JSON</span></acronym>, <acronym title="eXtensible Markup Language"><span class="caps">XML</span></acronym>) according to the incoming <acronym title="HyperText Transfer Protocol"><span class="caps">HTTP</span></acronym> <code>Accept</code> header. While it’s certainly cool, he notes a couple of issues with it (including the redundancy it introduces in <acronym title="Uniform Resource Locator"><span class="caps">URL</span></acronym> configuration). </p> <p>So let’s see if we can’t come up with a way ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/nov/29/multiresponse/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

http://www.b-list.org/about/copyright/Writing custom management commands2008-11-14T19:35:12ZJames Bennetthttp://www.b-list.org/tag:www.b-list.org,2008-11-14:/weblog/2008/nov/14/management-commands/

<p>The other night in the <code>#django-dev</code> <acronym title="Internet Relay Chat"><span class="caps">IRC</span></acronym> channel, <a href="http://cecinestpasun.com/">Russ</a>, <a href="http://ericholscher.com/">Eric</a> and I were talking about <a href="http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/custom-management-commands/#howto-custom-management-commands">custom management commands</a> for certain types of common but tedious tasks; Eric was discussing the possibility of a command for automatically generating a <code>tests</code> module in a Django application, since he’s our resident unit-testing freak, and I started toying with the idea of one to generate basic <a href="http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/admin/">admin declarations</a> for the models in an application. </p> <p>So I sat down ...</p> <p><a href="http://www.b-list.org/weblog/2008/nov/14/management-commands/">Read full entry and comments</a></p>

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