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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 21
Note: This isn't a technical post. If you don't want to be getting posts like this, you can sign up for just my Django feed. This is my personal blog, so stuff like this pops up from time to time :).
Most people believe ...
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 17
So at work since I started for Mediaphormedia, currently World Online, and the birthplace of Django, I have been tasked with porting Ellington. Ellington is the CMS that we create and sell, and is what Django originally was. Django was pulled out of ...
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 12
A lot of the time I start a blog post as a sentence. It is something that strikes me and I don't really know what I think about it. It is a moment of thought that needs to be revisited, but cannot yet be expounded upon.
A while ago ...
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 07
Stealing an idea/meme from Mark Pilgrim I'm going to do a post of the essential software that I use in a day to day basis. Justin also did a similar post a couple ...
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 03
Note: I'm launching a redesign today to address the styling issues. Please bear with me
A great example of how this month of blog posting is spawning great content on the interwebs. Other Eric posted a gems of python post, in which he ...
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 ...
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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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