This is the first of what might be a series of posts about learning Plone. I've worked in Django since January 2006, when Joe Heck, Karen Williams, and I built the now-defunct TrenchMice site. I haven't done any Django work since March, when I joined Fisher Communications, but I've followed the mailing lists and blogs. And I … Continue reading Moving from Django to Plone
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How to dive into another team’s Django code
I'm starting to learn my way around another team's Django project. They started from yet another team's code base, and extensively modified it over the last ~1.5 years. It's code for a large commercial site, which I hope to use to build an even larger commercial site having needs similar to, but different from, theirs. My immediate goals are … Continue reading How to dive into another team’s Django code
TrenchMice gets snuffed
We pulled the plug on TrenchMice yesterday. It had plateaued in traffic, and wasn't able to break through to the next level of readership. New features or different marketing efforts resulted in only temporary traffic spikes, followed by a return to the plateau. The cost for the servers wouldn't be a large financial drain in and … Continue reading TrenchMice gets snuffed
Integrating reCAPTCHA with Django
This is how I added reCAPTCHA captchas to TrenchMice, a Django-powered website. BackgroundWe didn't initially build captchas into TrenchMice, because we simply didn't think they would be necessary. By September 2006, the site started receiving spam comments. They were the usual gibberish you see in blog spam: Lots of links, garbage words, and bogus e-mail … Continue reading Integrating reCAPTCHA with Django
PyCon 2008 is here
Tomorrow through March 19, I'll be at PyCon 2008. I'm looking forward to the tutorials, conference, and the Django sprint. I'll blog about it if inspiration strikes.
Djangosearch.com
I just stumbled upon djangosearch.com, a search site focusing on all things Django. There was a django-users posting about it in November of 2007, but I didn't pursue it at the time. (I'd give the author a tip of the hat, but all I have is an e-mail address and a mailing list pseudonym. And … Continue reading Djangosearch.com
A better way to switch Django versions
Regarding my Windows junctions method for switching between Django versions, Alistair Lattimore wrote about a better way to do it. He switches between Django versions using the site module's path configuration files. This sounds better than junctions, because the junction file is a special directory entry that you manipulate with a downloaded command-line tool. Although … Continue reading A better way to switch Django versions
I closed my first Django ticket
It was a minor documentation problem, and I closed it with a worksforme. But that's one less open ticket that someone else would have to look at.
Django blogs vs. WordPress.org. vs. WordPress.com
Going by what I read, there's lots of technical interest in writing Django blogging applications. Django-users regularly gets questions about it, and it's easy to come across a related blog post. For example, Patrick Altman wrote I want to Move my Blog to Django, and James wrote Where is Django's blog application? This puzzles me, … Continue reading Django blogs vs. WordPress.org. vs. WordPress.com
Multiple Django development versions on Windows
Having multiple Django versions on your development box is easy if you're running a flavor of Unix. You just use symlinks. As Malcolm Trednick said on django-users: I do it all the time. I five or six different Django codebases that I use with some regularity and switching between them is pretty common (and fast). … Continue reading Multiple Django development versions on Windows
Seek Nuance 