July 2010
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June 2010
36 posts
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What is django.contrib? →
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Best HTML5 And CSS3 Frameworks →
(via seapomeranian)
So much new stuff, it comes out soo fast!
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Mechanical Girl takes the 'ugly' out of Django...
If you have spent any time reviewing my recent posts, you can probably guess that I am pretty excited about Django, Python and many things related. Python is pretty cool in it’s own right- syntactical ‘sugar’, comedy references and all that. Django is also very attractive: named after a great musician, and a framework that allows you to create great applications quickly: WITH...
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HTML5 Rocks →
html5watch:
Google’s has a new tutorial site aimed at helping developers dive into HTML5. Pretty nice!
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Using Free Comments! →
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IE6 lives due to it's awfulness. →
implicitlydefined:
“Businesses are sticking with Internet Explorer 6 to prevent employees from wasting time on Facebook. At least, that’s the word from Microsoft.”
Wow. Just wow.
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Inserting and positioning images in Django →
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Syntax highlighting for Django using Pygments →
This is a really short write up, but I would like to check it out later.
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implicitlydefined:
Steve Jobs on D8. As always, Jobs presents ideas and perspectives, as well as the values and points of view of Apple.
“The thing that I love about the consumer market is that folks can decide for themselves. In the Enterprise market, the decision makers are often confused” ~Steve jobs
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Uploading images with Django →
This is going to be a requirement for most Django projects that I would make.
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Automatical superuser creation with Django →
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Django fixtures command
python manage.py dumpdata –format=xml [app name] > [app name]/initial_data.xml
The best way that I know of to get the data loaded straight into an app that you are developing. I would remove the fixtures before deploying though…
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Markdown with syntax highlighting in Django →
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How to use markup in django
This was ridiculously simple, but it took me a little while to figure out so here is a quick overview of utilizing django’s built-in functionality to parse text.
I had looked all over the internet for easy solutions, but what I found was 3 instructions:
*Put django.contrib.markup in your INSTALLED_APPS
*Load markup in your templates via {% load markup %}
*Filter whatever text with the...
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Using Markdown with Django →
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Irrationality of the square root of 3 →
Mathematics, enjoying the rules and logical solutions.
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GQL datastore types and property classes →
GQL is what you use when developing on the Google App engine (GAE). I am excited to learn more about it, and so I must begin with the reading of documentation.
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Build a Microblog with Django →
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Plugging a RSS feed into a Django template →
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Using Django with Appengine →
One of the best and most complete guides to the entire process of developing a django application on google’s app engine.
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Django Fixtures (an overview) →
One of the best features of using a framework is all the ‘bells and whistles’ that come with it! I consider fixtures to be a necessary, but often overlooked feature to web applications.
One neat thing to do is load initial testing data to your application.
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The Pleasures of Imagination →
givemesomethingtoread:
How do Americans spend their leisure time? The answer might surprise you.