Django abstracts most of the actions you would be doing with the Database.
What it doesn’t abstracts, and doesn’t try to abstract is the Database modelling part. This is a quick tutorial
describing to how model your data in Django models.py, and how to access and modify them.
Consider a hypothetical HR department, which wants you to build [...]
Summary:
How to integrate a non Django database system in your Django code, using Wordpress
as example. The completed code is available at github or you can see some screnshots
Though there are quite a few good Django blog applications, our blog is based on
Wordpress. A number of plugin’s
make moving to a Django based app a bad decision
for [...]
Forms are one of the best features of Django. (After models, admin, url routing etc ). Here is a quick tutorial describing how to do things with Django forms.
Basic form
Prob. You want to show a form, validate it and display it.
Ans. Create a simple form.
class UserForm(forms.Form):
username = forms.CharField()
[...]
twitter ready version:
We have released a Django forum application, with some cool features not in any other Django based forum. You can get it here or see it in action.
blog version
There are quite a few Django based forum applications, so why another? Its a bit of a rhetorical question, as the answer is “none [...]
What is bpython?
bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Unix-like operating system.
says the bpython home page. It provides syntax highlighting, auto completion, auto-indentation and such stuff.
Unlike iPython, which implements then entire shell functions and emulates the standard python shell, and adds enhancements, bpython just adds features on top of the [...]
Foss.in is without doubt India’s largest FOSS technology conference. Lakshman gave a talk today on “Python metaclasses and how Django uses them”. Here are the slides from that talk.
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A quick django quiz. Answers available tomorrow. Get it as a text file (django-quiz) or on google docs or read below.
### Easy
1. You have a class defined as
class Post(models.Model):
name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
is_active = models.BooleanField(default=False)
You create multiple [...]
by Ashok on November 26, 2009
This is not yet another Django vs Rails blog post. It is a compilation of notes I made working with Django after having worked on Rails for years.
In this post I want to give a brief introduction to Django project layout from a Rails developer point of view, on what is there, what is not [...]
by shabda on November 21, 2009
Django has three builtin template loaders which are used to get the templates for rendering.
TEMPLATE_LOADERS = (
‘django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source’,
‘django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source’,
# ‘django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source’,
)
Writing your template loader is a awfuly easy. It is a callable which
Returns a tuple of (openfile, filename) if it can find the template.
Raise TemplateDoesNotExist if [...]
by shabda on November 11, 2009
This is announcement about our new work, Django Gotchas, a teeny tiny ebook about commonly occurring gotchas with Django. Here is the readme copied from the project.
Django-gotchas is a collections of gotchas which happen commonly when you are working with Django.
They are some errors which I have made commonly or seen others do, these [...]