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A First Look at django-grappelli

 September.23rd.2008 • 4:23PM 2 Comments

This is the story of a guy and a framework. Lots of things have been happening around said framework. One in particular is a new design for the three year old admin application. This is hopefully the first of many quick walkthroughs through design-related Django pluggables.

I found django-grappelli about a week ago by Patrick Kranzlmüller and Axel Swoboda of vonautomatisch and finally got the chance to try it out after running into some initial commits while updating Django Plugables.

If you’re looking for something fresh, I encourage you to try it out! All you have to do is reference the templates in your TEMPLATE_DIRS and point your ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX to the correct location. The actual media directory is a bit messy, but it works out of the box, no tweaking needed.

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The Web Framework for Ponies

 September.9th.2008 • 1:02AM 49 Comments

This is the story of a guy and a conference. At said conference, he saw a keynote by some guy at Flickr. The keynote was about how Django sucked. But one thing caught said guy’s eye, the fact that Django needed a mascot. Read on to experience the ensuing pony-fest.

As many of you know, DjangoCon came to a close yesterday. Long story short, one of my favorite conferences ever. The laughs, memories, connections and available knowledge — endless. Soon, there’ll be videos of all the talks for all to enjoy, but I couldn’t help acting on one of my favorite talks of the first night, Cal Henderson’s keynote on why he hates Django.

Cal Henderson on Why I hate Django?

In it, amongst other things, he talked about how Django needed a mascot. One that was awesome and had magical powers. Well, somewhere inside my head, I agreed. Since the pony seems to ...

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Django Plugables

 April.29th.2008 • 4:36PM 8 Comments

This is the story of a guy and his company’s first application, Django Plugables. Well, actually it’s more of a utility but that’s besides the point. Said guy takes you on an overview of what went into the creation of said application.

For those of you who haven’t heard or have been living under the proverbial rock, Revyver released its first “application” about three weeks ago. And yes, only now am I getting around to writing about Django Plugables. I put application in quotes mainly because it’s more of a utility than a social network application1.

So here it is, “The story of Django Plugables” or “How I built something in 5 days.”

Day 1: Find what’s pissing me off

This story starts with a problem. Every story has to start out with a problem, right? “Boy ...

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Dynamic Javascript In Django

 April.4th.2008 • 12:15AM 7 Comments

This is the story of a guy, Google and Django. After a hard fought battle with jQuery, the guy takes on Google Maps. After conquering them, he doesn’t feel right leaving all of the Javascript embedded in his templates. This is his journey to liberate them.

Work has started and is continuing on what I’m labeling 25.1. Yes I’m treating this as an app, but more on that later. ;) Part of 25.1 involves Google Maps, which like jQuery is something that would usually lead to me wanting to decapitate myself. Thankfully, Google helped and sample code is the shit.

But first, a little history. Like Jeff, I’ve been going on a geocoding spree. I’ve made it a habit to accurately geocode all of my Flickr photos and then bring them to Django using django-syncr. Unfortunately, django-syncr isn’t working ...

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My Reasons for Django

 May.4th.2007 • 10:12PM No Comments

This is the story of a guy and a framework that was introduced to him by a friend. The guy was looking to graduate from the tried and true WordPress and build his own thing—just like all the cool kids seemed to be doing.

It’s almost nauseating how many frameworks and blogging engines onecan choose today. Everything from Ruby on Rails, to SimpleLog and Mephisto, to CakePHP, Expression Engine, the growing Habari Project and even good ‘ol WordPress. All of these contenders (and the loads of others that I haven’t mentioned) have their appealing values, I had reasons, albeit small in most cases against using them. Note that I’ll be intentionally making general assumptions—each tool has their rightful place in different projects, just not in this “exploratory” one.

It wasn’t until I exchanged a few emails with Jeff ...

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