django
2018
Migrating a Django application from Heroku to AWS Elastic Beanstalk
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development
heroku
aws
elastic beanstalk
django
python
Here’s the scenario you find yourself in: you’ve built and deployed a cool little Django app, and successfully deployed it on Heroku. You’ve followed all the great advice out there and are using django-environ to help manage all the various configuration variables you have to retrieve from your Heroku dynos.
2015
Changelog: Improving Discovery and Readability
·780 words·4 mins
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meta
personal
development
lsi
jekyll
octopress
django
xapian
haystack
Iteration is the thing. Or at least that’s what I tell myself. After all, tinkering is easy to do, especially when you are working with a platform as flexible as Jekyll.
2013
Switching To Octopress
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assorted geekery
meta
ruby
octopress
django
development
python
jekyll
hyde
This site is now powered by Octopress. The tentacles compell you!
It’s tentacly delicious !
The Search> The Search # As I mentioned in my previous post, I’ve been looking to try out a new CMS for this site.
2010
Version 3.0
·1106 words·6 mins
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announcements
django
python
development
After lots of hard work, some swearing, and lots of patience on the part of my wife, Version 3.0 of this site is now live. It’s been a long journey, but getting it done has been very satisfying.
Easier custom Model Manager Chaining
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django
orm
programming
python
Via Simon Willison:
This is a really convenient way to add custom functions to model managers in Django. Way easier than defining custom managers each time you need extra functionality.
2009
October Braindump
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braindump
development
django
personal
reviews
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.
2008
Code Revision and NaNoWriMo
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announcements
coding
django
nanowrimo
writing
I have not had time to post here in a while. My new job has kept me very busy and most of the time when I get home I just want to relax and spend time with my girlfriend.
Django Rosetta
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development
django
programming
python
Via Simon Willison:
This is a real cool Django app that creates an awesome interface to help internationalize your site. Allows the adminstrator, and an optional group of designated translators to read and write your site’s gettext files.
Django Evolution
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databases
django
django evolution
programming
python
This is one of the more promising projects in progress on the Schema Migration front. Schema evolution can be a bit painful and projects like this for automatically migrating database structure based on the Python model code will be a necessity for long term projects.
Quick Post: My Pownces, Let Me Show You Them
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api
assorted geekery
development
django
pownce
programming
python
social networking
Heh, I had a little fun this afternoon writing a little Django app for my site that will regularly import my public Pownce notes and allow me to display them in the sidebar.
2007
Send Django Exceptions to DPaste
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development
django
programming
python
Michael Trier points out a cool new feature in Django that is awesome for debugging. On Django error pages (with DEBUG turned on) there is now a button that will automatically post the contents to dpaste.
Yaaar
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django
holiday
pirate
python
Ahoy, mateys! Today be the official Talk Like A Pirate Day and the Ministry o’ Intrigue will be celebrating by servin’ up all me text as pirate speak fer the duration.
Fun With Django Feeds
·1140 words·6 mins
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atom
development
django
howto
python
rss
I would like to take a moment to show you how easy it is to create feeds in Django, and the easiest way to do that is by example. For brevity’s sake, I’m going to use a simplified version of a Django-powered blog.
Relaunch
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announcements
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django
Well, it took a long time, but I finally finished!
Welcome to the new Ministry of Intrigue. This site is now powered by Django, the marvelous Python framework many of you have heard me rave about again and again.
2006
Newspaper = Data Warehouse: A Different Sort Of Journalism
·688 words·4 mins
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culture
development
django
tech
Adrian Holovaty, one of the creators of Django (which you will read my raves about again and again), has posted a wonderful meditation on how online newspapers need to change. He centers his thoughts on one central point:
Django Rocks My World
·851 words·4 mins
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assorted geekery
development
django
tech
python
So as I mentioned before I’ve been learning Python, and it has been a lot of fun. It says something that I can spend all day at work writing code, only getting up from the computer to scavenge the vending machines, but when the end of the day comes I find myself rushing home so that I can pick up where I left off in my Python lesson plan.