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South brings migrations to Django applications

Brajeshwar — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:13:31 +0000

The main objectives of South are to provide a simple, stable and database-independent migration layer to prevent all the hassle schema changes over time bring to your Django applications.

Notes on a Django Migration

Brajeshwar — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:51:28 +0000

Scott Hacker, has posted an interesting, and quite detailed post discussing a developer’s move to Django. It’s both a personal account and a researched account, which makes for a strong post.

Read the article — Notes on a Django Migration.

Django-Taggable

Brajeshwar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:19:11 +0000

Gustavo Picon, announced his new project django-taggable. As the author describes, django-taggable is “An efficient, denormalized and multidimensional tagging library for Django 1.0+”

Django 1.0.1 released

Brajeshwar — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:05:24 +0000

Following Django’s previously-announced schedule, the Django team has released Django 1.0.1. This is a bugfix-only release containing fixes and improvements to the Django 1.0 codebase, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone using or targeting Django 1.0.

How the Heck do Django Models Work

Brajeshwar — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:58:09 +0000

Anyone who has used Django for just about any length of time has probably used a Django model, and possibly wondered how it works. The key to the whole thing is what’s known as a metaclass, a metaclass is essentially a class that defines how a class is created.

Read the article in full — How the Heck do Django Models Work?

10 useful Django Tips

Brajeshwar — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:59:50 +0000

“There are quite a few great little tricks and tips one could use on their Django projects that would speed up development and save many headaches in the long run. From basic to obscure, these tips can help any skill-level of programmer become more adept with Django and all it’s glory.” Via: NetTuts.

Django Release Process

Brajeshwar — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 07:45:17 +0000

Django will now be doing time-based releases, with minor releases (new features but no backwards incompatible changes) approximately every six months.

Checkout Django 1.1 roadmap and schedule.

Brian Beck wrote a reusable Django app t …

Adel Anwar — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 20:03:36 +0000

Brian Beck wrote a reusable Django app that adds batch deletion and batch actions to the Django admin.

Looking at templates for forms in Django …

Harshad — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:34:46 +0000

Looking at templates for forms in Django http://linkbun.ch/1gns

Django 1.0 released!

Brajeshwar — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:08:32 +0000

Django 1.0 represents a the largest milestone in Django’s development to date: a web framework that a group of perfectionists can truly be proud of. Without this amazing community, though, it would have never happened.

You can download Django 1.0 on the Django downloads page, and read the complete release notes.

Sign a string using SHA1, then shrink it using url-safe base65

Brajeshwar — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 04:47:14 +0000

Over at Django Snippets, Simon Willison have an interesting way of creating a tamper-proof URLs and cookies by signing them, but without the overhead of a full 40 character SHA1 hash.

He experimented further and was able to knock a 40 char hash down to 27 characters by encoding it using a custom base65 encoding which only uses URL-safe characters.