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Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Documentation

2010 February 05

[This is part of the Large Problems in Django Series, see previous entries about: APIs, Search, and Database Migrations]

Django is ...

You should stay for the sprints

2009 November 16

At most open source conferences, a lot of attention is given to the talks. At the ones that I have been to (Djangocon and Pycon), the most fun that I have had, and the most I have learned is during the sprints. I want to talk about the value and ...

Adding testing to pip

2009 November 05

Python packaging has been in a bit of a state of disarray for as long as I've been using it. Pip has come along to make installing python packages easier. It has a lot of features that are useful, but they have been talked about in many other blog ...

Python gems of my own

2008 November 03

Note: I'm launching a redesign today to address the styling issues. Please bear with me

A great example of how this month of blog posting is spawning great content on the interwebs. Other Eric posted a gems of python post, in which he ...

Big list of Django tips (and some python tips too)

2008 October 05

We were talking about things that we wish we had known before while developing for Django the other day in IRC. I proclaimed that we should write them down somewhere. So I'm writing a post to get this effort started. Please feel free to leave comments with your own ...

Using pdb, the Python Debugger (Django Debugging Series, Part 3)

2008 August 31

I had a couple of comments about my last post saying that I should be sending all of the screencasts to the aggregator because this is content and isn't spam. So I'm going to do that. Thanks for all the feedback everyone! Hope you're enjoying the series ...

Screencast 2: Logging in Django, for fun and profit

2008 August 29

This is the second screencast of a week long series.

So that I don't spam all of the Django Community Feed (Bad RSS handling has done that more than once, Sorry!) I'm only going to be posting this post and the last post summarizing all of the screencasts ...

Screencast: Debugging with the Django Error Page

2008 August 28

This is part 1 of a week long series of screencasts

Hey Everyone, I'm here to make a minor announcement. In the upcoming 7 days, I'm going to be releasing 5-7 screencasts on Django, mostly focused on debugging, and hopefully trying to throw in a couple of other ...

Easily packaging and distributing Django apps with setuptools and easy_install

2008 August 06

First off let me say that I know that not everyone likes setuptools and that is fine. distutils works well and is included with python. However, I believe that Python needs to get some parity with what Perl has with CPAN. Pypi is Python's ...

Python Easy Install

2007 December 21

EDIT: Hey everyone, I wrote an updated post that actually tells how to setup a django app (and any python app) using easy install. Check it out!

I found a neat python module that lets you install other python modules. I have set it up on here, and it makes ...