Django

Learning About Django Templates

I was working on a template last night to handle a generic view. I started by going into the console (managey.py shell) to poke around at the model I wanted to use. From that session, I copied the following snippet to use in the template.

project.projectimage_set.all()[0].image.url

I added this to the template and it looked like [...]


Code Quality & Patch Quality

This was a great talk where Malcolm Tredinnick spelled out what he’s looking for in Django patches and what to avoid if you don’t want your patch tossed out. Although his talk was targeting the Django project, he really dispensed good advice for anyone maintaining software regardless of project, language or platform. The room was completely packed! All of the chairs and couches we’re filled and people were sitting on the floor and standing at the sides of the room.


Blogging From DjangoCon

I’m blogging from DjangoCon, inside Google….


Building A New Blog

Because I can. Because I should. Because cool developers do it. I’m really doing it because I agree with an article from Geoffrey Grossenbach of the Nuby On Rails and PeepCode (actually, the guy does tons of stuff – go check his site out) fame. In it he says,
“I’ll add to this and say [...]