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Screencast: Django Command Extensions

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 ...

Using pdb to debug management commands and unit tests (Debugging Django Series,Part 4)

2008 September 02

Screencast 4

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.

Setup

This screencast uses a couple of really ...

Using pdb, the Python Debugger (Django Debugging Series, Part 3)

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 ...

Screencast 2: Logging in Django, for fun and profit

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 ...

Screencast: Debugging with the Django Error Page

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 ...

Testmaker .002 (Even easier automated testing in Django)

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 ...

Automating tests in Django

2008 July 23

Updated

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 ...