Marco Beri, one of the organizers of PyCon Italy, published the first book in Italian about Django 1.0. It has been reviewed, among others, by Antonio Cangiano! This is great news for the chances of widespread adoption of Django in Italy!
I started developing web applications in Python relatively a long time ago.
I tried almost them all in various degrees of depth: Python + CGI, Zope 2, Webware for Python, Subway (who does remember it?), Twisted Web, Nevow, Python + WSGI, Paste, Django, Pylons and maybe something else I can’t remember right now.
Nowadays most of my [...]
While I was boring myself to death last weekend and while everybody was talking about it I came up with a sample application.
Now I can talk about Google AppEngine as well
It is simply a pastebin using the DataStore API, the webapp framework, the Users API, pygments and Django templates.
It is heavily inspired by [...]
Update: this post is for version 0.96 only since the trick is now outdated.
As many of you already the trunk version of Django carries a brand new infrastructure to handle HTML forms providing rendering capabilities and validation.
Its name is newforms but I guess it will soon become just forms replacing the current framework which will [...]
Antonio Cangiano is asking for help and ideas. Being himself the former author of the Rails tools for the IBM DB2 DBMS he’s searching for input for the development of a set of tools and drivers for Python, Django an DB2.
I think it’s a great idea having that kind of support in Django, even maybe [...]
Sometimes you need to get down to the core and make your code faster. One technique to speed up things is performance analysis through profiling.
Python 2.5 has revamped its support for profiling with the addition of cProfile which is (the name says all) a C-based version of the profile module. It’s definitely better than hotshot [...]
James Bennet just launched a community driven website to collect useful snippets of Django code all in one place. Very nice!
Thanks James!
djangosnippets.org
This morning I poked around the Django testing framework and altough is definitely usable as a simple testing framework (unittest and doctest) it lacks a massive fixture framework (like Rails for instance).
I also have some random problems using test.Client() for POST resulting in some HTTP 500 response instead of 200.
In the meantime I tried using [...]
