Surfing in Kansas
2008 December 03
During the last month I have proposed some conventions for Django, mostly in the realm of templates. In doing so I have looked around for other documented places where conventions are mentioned. I haven't found a really good reference for Django conventions. [Brian's post](http://oebfare.com/blog ...
2008 November 30
It's the end of the Post a day for a month. I did pretty well, but fell off about 3 weeks in because of work. First some stats.
In [4]: Post.objects.published().filter(publish__year='2008', publish__month='11').count()
Out[4]: 23L
In [10]: for post in ...
2008 November 27
A couple posts ago, I talked about how we should have conventions for the names that we use in Django Template Blocks. Today I will be talking about the value that is gained from this kind of structure.
2008 November 26
About a week ago, I went ahead and re-wrote testmaker and moved it into my django-test-utils project on github. The syntax is now a bit different, and the whole thing is much improved. This is version 0 ...
2008 November 22
I have been doing some more work on my Django Community Aggregator / Django People v2 project. A big feature that I want to incorporate is tagging. I want people to be able to sort data by tag, among other things. I think that this is a pretty killer feature.
This ...
2008 November 20
There are a lot of reusable apps out in the Django Ecosystem. I wrote a previous post about why I think that reusable apps should come with templates. There is a problem about distributing templates that I want to address with this ...
2008 November 16
Well I spent all day Saturday, and all night. Into Sunday morning hacking on some code. Probably the most productive 24 hours of my life. I have a couple of announcements, but in the spirit of post-a-day, I'll spread them out over a couple days :).
The big one, is ...
2008 November 15
Nick had a nice post about setting DEBUG based on the hostname of the server that you're site is running on. This allows you to set DEBUG to True for your staging site, and False for your production site.
I do something along ...
2008 November 14
There is a debate among the Django community about whether people should include templates in their reusable apps.
The arguments for including them are generally that it is nice to simply install the app and have things just work. This is a really nice feature to not have to dig ...
2008 November 13
I was having a conversation with Jacob tonight about testing in Django. He has shot down testmaker for being too specific for Django core, which I almost agree with, given my grandiose plans for it before the month is out ...
2008 November 11
This is the fourth in a series of Django testing posts. Check out the others in my Testing series if you want to read more. Today is the start of a sub-series, which is practical examples. This series will be going through each of the different kinds of ...
2008 November 10
Today I'm going to be releasing a new project, called django-test-utils. It's rather empty at the moment, but it does have one cool feature. That is my [Django Crawler](http://github.com/ericholscher/django-test-utils/tree/master/test_utils/management/commands/crawlurls.py ...
2008 November 09
A couple posts back, I was talking about software that I use all the time. I was going through and linking to all of the software. I would go to google, type in the project name, go to the first result, and copy that URL back into my post. I ...
2008 November 08
There are a lot of things that I love about Django. Template tags are one of them. However, they do have a couple of warts that bother me. I know that there's a problem when I actively look for another way to accomplish something instead of writing a template ...
2008 November 06
My workload at work is about to get a lot less critical and time consuming, so I was looking for a project to start on. I am really interested in the social aspects of the web, and below I will outline an idea that I think will be my next ...
2008 November 05
In the first two posts of this series, we talked about how to get the basic infrastructure for your tests up and running. You should have a file with doc tests and one with unit tests. They should be linked into your django project with an `init.py ...
2008 November 04
Last post we talked about how to set up and use doc tests inside of Django. Today, in the second post of the series, we'll be talking about how to use the other testing framework that comes with Python, unittest. unittest is a xUnit type of testing system (JUnit ...
2008 November 02
This is the first in a series of blog posts and screencasts that will walk you through how to test your Django application. These posts will focus more on how to get things done in Django, but note that a lot of the content is applicable to pure python as ...
2008 November 01
November blog posting month has a special moment in my Django history. It was this time last year that I really got serious into Django. With the help of James Bennett's and Marty Alchin's blog ...
2008 October 05
We were talking about things that we wish we had known before while developing for Django the other day in IRC. I proclaimed that we should write them down somewhere. So I'm writing a post to get this effort started. Please feel free to leave comments with your own ...
2008 September 18
I went ahead today and figured that I would try out Pinax, seeing as it's been getting a lot of good press in the ...
2008 September 12
This is a screencast on the Django Command Extensions project. It is one of my favorite third party apps, and it gets installed in every Django environment I work in. It provides a plethora of useful manage.py commands, and a couple other little ...
2008 September 02
Today's screencast is about pdb again. This time we are going to be debugging management commands, and unit tests for django. This is a little bit more powerful than the previous screencast which just introduced the basic debugging commands.
This screencast uses a couple of really ...
2008 August 31
I had a couple of comments about my last post saying that I should be sending all of the screencasts to the aggregator because this is content and isn't spam. So I'm going to do that. Thanks for all the feedback everyone! Hope you're enjoying the series ...
2008 August 29
This is the second screencast of a week long series.
So that I don't spam all of the Django Community Feed (Bad RSS handling has done that more than once, Sorry!) I'm only going to be posting this post and the last post summarizing all of the screencasts ...
2008 August 28
This is part 1 of a week long series of screencasts
Hey Everyone, I'm here to make a minor announcement. In the upcoming 7 days, I'm going to be releasing 5-7 screencasts on Django, mostly focused on debugging, and hopefully trying to throw in a couple of other ...
2008 August 14
Today I ran into a fun problem when writing template tags at work. (I'll write another post later on the fun-ness that is testing of template tags :) In ellington we have some templatetags that test for the current time of day. ifmorning, ifnight and so on. These template tags ...
2008 August 06
First off let me say that I know that not everyone likes setuptools and that is fine. distutils works well and is included with python. However, I believe that Python needs to get some parity with what Perl has with CPAN. Pypi is Python's ...
2008 July 26
Okay, Well I have been hacking away at django-testmaker for the last couple of days based on some ideas from the community. It has gotten a lot better, so here is another blog post showing what's new.
First let me just say how awesome the Django community is, and ...
2008 July 23
At work lately we've been writing a bunch of tests for all of the work we've been doing. This is generally a good thing (tm). I was getting tired of manually having to write all of the code to test the views ...
2008 July 08
I was just convinced to setup mod_wsgi on my server instead of mod_python, and I'm going to write up how I did it. All of the documentation I found on the internet was really hard to follow, so I'm going to distill it here the best that I ...
2007 November 25
Implemented Background processes, the ps command, and the kill command in GeekOS today for my Operating System class (hard shit!). Really neat stuff though.
I am also hacking arounc w/ Django to implement my independent study. So busy...
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Starting a Django Conventions Project and Reference
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The value of conventions, aka testmaker for template tags.
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Testmaker 0.2: Rewritten and improved
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