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Django Conventions Project Update

2009 January 27

So about a month ago I started a project on my blog called the Django Conventions Project. It was an attempt to document and record conventions that are used across the community. Conventions are a great thing ...

Starting a Django Conventions Project and Reference

2008 December 03

During the last month I have proposed some conventions for Django, mostly in the realm of templates. In doing so I have looked around for other documented places where conventions are mentioned. I haven't found a really good reference for Django conventions. [Brian's post](http://oebfare.com/blog ...

Post a day in review

2008 November 30

It's the end of the Post a day for a month. I did pretty well, but fell off about 3 weeks in because of work. First some stats.

Post stats

In [4]: Post.objects.published().filter(publish__year='2008', publish__month='11').count()
Out[4]: 23L

In [10]: for post in ...

Testmaker 0.2: Rewritten and improved

2008 November 26

About a week ago, I went ahead and re-wrote testmaker and moved it into my django-test-utils project on github. The syntax is now a bit different, and the whole thing is much improved. This is version 0 ...

A start to the uber community

2008 November 16

Well I spent all day Saturday, and all night. Into Sunday morning hacking on some code. Probably the most productive 24 hours of my life. I have a couple of announcements, but in the spirit of post-a-day, I'll spread them out over a couple days :).

The big one, is ...

Announcing Django Crawler and django-test-utils

2008 November 10

Today I'm going to be releasing a new project, called django-test-utils. It's rather empty at the moment, but it does have one cool feature. That is my [Django Crawler](http://github.com/ericholscher/django-test-utils/tree/master/test_utils/management/commands/crawlurls.py ...