http://www.pkshiu.com/loft Thoughts without walls Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:19:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I wrote a post earlier about PyTextile not working well in Django. James Bennet was nice enough to add some pointers to the issue. (Comments are working now on my Blog). Now that I am using textile more, I want to investigate and document the issue better. Most importantly, the problem ... http://www.pkshiu.com/loft/archive/2008/07/django-and-pytextile-revisited I gave a short presentation on Django to the Cambridge Python Users group earlier. Nate has a great writeup of the event and the other presentations that evening. I just want to share the slides here. The slides are just visual reminders and do not stand on their own. If ... http://www.pkshiu.com/loft/archive/2008/06/j2ee-to-django-slides-for-the-presentation-at-cambridge-python-meetup This is a common mistake. When defining a FileField or an ImageField, you need to specify where the files are stored. This is done by specifying a relative path in the upload_to argument. Django will then store your files in a subdirectory as named, under the MEDIA_ROOT directory. But, don't put a leading ... http://www.pkshiu.com/loft/archive/2008/05/django-tip-no-leading-slash-for-upload_to-for-filefield-and-imagefield How many times do you need to do this? You have a list of things to output. The list can be empty, has one element, or more. You want to separate each items with a separator for readability. What do you do? 1. The simple but not reader friendly way: toppings = ... http://www.pkshiu.com/loft/archive/2008/04/django-tip-outputting-list-of-items-separated-by-commas-but-only-if-it-has-more-than-one-item I have been using the text mode emacs up to now. On Windows (yikes!) I uses the xemacs with windows extension, which is pretty nice. Quick googling found me Carbon Emacs. It has been updated, universal binary and Leopard. Highly recommended ! http://www.pkshiu.com/loft/archive/2008/01/emacs-for-os-x-leopard I started working on one of my internationalized applications on the new Mac. I realized I did not install "gettext", which is required by the make-messages and compile-messages scripts. I want to avoid installing things into OS X if I can. Then I found the easy way out: 1. Install poedit ... http://www.pkshiu.com/loft/archive/2008/01/gettext-on-leopard-for-django-internationalization Part of the reason I was waiting to switch from using Windows XP (gasp) as my Django development platform to OS X is that it is actually easier to install the platform on XP. Windows does not come with any of the tools, so it was a matter of installing ... http://www.pkshiu.com/loft/archive/2008/01/django-on-leopard I am trying out Django's i18n support and found a few issues. This only applies if you are using newforms and Django 0.96. Order of Middleware First, the order of the middleware is important. It is defined in the documentation, but I missed it the first time around. You have to put ... http://www.pkshiu.com/loft/archive/2008/01/django-096-internationalization I am coverting a J2EE application over to django. The existing app uses Textile as a simple markup for user text input. After installing pytextile (which is under ownership change at the moment), I found a problem using it: The "textile" filter works for strings and strings retrieved from my database, ... http://www.pkshiu.com/loft/archive/2007/10/using-pytextile-in-django-problem-with-unicode I like Django a lot. In fact I am in the middle of converting a large J2EE application to Django. Sometimes I run into a problem using it, and knowing Django, I know there is a good solution. To find the solution however, sometimes require very careful reading of the ... http://www.pkshiu.com/loft/archive/2007/09/the-importance-of-the-initial-argument-in-django-newforms-library