The 42 Topics Blog:
Django has three builtin template loaders which are used to get the templates for rendering.TEMPLATE_LOADERS = ( 'django.template.loaders.filesystem.load_template_source', 'django.template.loaders.app_directories.load_template_source',# 'django.template.loaders.eggs.load_template_source',)Writing your template loa (Read More)
Andy McKay's blog:
I am very excited to announce the DjangoSki Conference in Whistler, March 2nd-4th 2010.This is a conference that combines my favourite web application framework with one of my favourite sports, skiing. If you are going to run a conference, may as well do it somewhere with style right? The conference is slightly unusual in t (Read More)
The 42 Topics Blog:
This is announcement about our new work, Django Gotchas, a teeny tiny ebook about commonly occurring gotchas with Django. Here is the readme copied from the project.Django-gotchas is a collections of gotchas which happen commonly when you are working with Django.They are some errors which I have made commonly or seen other (Read More)
random.choice(['idea', 'rant', 'link', 'tip']):
Yes, it's a long overdue release for the collection of tools to use Django on top Jython that began its life after my Google Summer of Code project in 2008. If you don't know what I'm talking about, take a look at the shiny new documentation to get an idea of what it includes.There is something that makes me happy to releas (Read More)
Ministry of Intrigue:
LinkLink To SourceThis is a sweet search application for Django. When I first wrote my site, I had to patch the model code to have it utilize the native full text search available in PostgreSQL, and then some truly ugly search code for searching all the models in my applications. Haystack, combined with a true search backen (Read More)
Andy McKay's blog:
I'm pleased to announce that in January 2010 I'll be running Django Training in Vancouver. The four day training covers all the things you need to know about getting Django up and running. The training is very hands-on - a bit of talking and then a bit of writing code.Since it's in Vancouver in the winter, we also thought w (Read More)
Ministry of Intrigue:
Blog Entry I have not been posting here much of late, which is partly due to the amount of stuff I’m working on, and partly due to the fact that I’ve been writing and posting stuff in other places around the web, since it is easier. Some of this will get fixed with the next revision of this site, but honestly, it has less t (Read More)
Andy McKay's blog:
Reprinted from Djangozen.The other week I faced a real slow down on Arecibo due to a high number of errors being generated by a few other sites. At the time I started to find out how bad Postgres is compared to MySQL in terms of performance when doing a SQL count. MySQL does more work to make that faster.In Arecibo, we pres (Read More)
random.choice(['idea', 'rant', 'link', 'tip']):
I just sit down and uploaded the material used for my recent presentation at the JRSL 2009. The source code for the demos is in this zipped file, with the exception of the full django project I ran on top of Jython which was taken verbatim from the Jython Book.You can take a look at the slides below (via slideshare) or down (Read More)
The Django weblog:
Today the Django project is issuing a set of releases to remedy asecurity issue. This issue was disclosed publicly by a third party ona high-traffic mailing list, and attempts have been made to exploit itagainst live Django installations; as such, we are bypassing ournormal policy for security disclosureand immediately issu (Read More)
The 42 Topics Blog:
Pycon India concluded last weekend at Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore.There have been so many python/django conferences recently, I have been tracking them literally all through the year. Another one, SciPy India just got announced. Week long, with sprints!Pycon India was attended by around 350 people and had 30 talk (Read More)
zerokspot.com :: Entries:
For quite some time I wanted to write something with a document-based database system again. My last trip into this area was in Feb. 2009 when I needed a small feed-aggregator for a local Barcamp and wanted to provide a live-ticker for all the tweets and photos related to that event. Back then I went with CouchDB with its (Read More)
Andy McKay's blog:
This was my first DjangoCon and the first conference I've been to where I felt I didn't know a large number of people. I'd always gone to conferences with more than one person, or where I knew a large amount of people. It wasn't quite "social skydiving" as my friend likes to call it, because as it turns out I knew lots of p (Read More)
Evolving Bits:
After catching the great videos from last year’s first DjangoCon I looked forward to attending this year. I’m glad I went.We’ll be discussing “What did we learn at DjangoCon?” at this Thursday’s Django Seattle. See http://www.djangoseattle.org for more details.In the meantime, here are some high-level take-aways:* Should J (Read More)
Andy McKay's blog:
These are the slides of the Fighting Malnutrition with SMS and Django, it covers my work with the RapidSMS project in Kenya and Malawi and focuses on some of the technical bits.Fighting Malnutrition with SMS and DjangoView more documents from Andy McKay.RapidSMS is in need of Django programmers willing to volunteer - especi (Read More)