Coder’s Eye

I’m going to be using Satchmo to power the backend of a highly customized store that I’m building for a new client.

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I really like Django’s newest module for forms, “newforms”. Despite its currently lacking documentation, it is well worth learning.It feels much more “Pythonic” than the old manipulator-based method. Less magic is going on, and less constant reference to the manual is needed.

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I’ve always disliked having to write __repr__ methods for my classes. In Django, it is especially important, since the admin pages use that method to give you Python is moderately unusual in that it allows classes to have multiple inheritance.

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Now that I am doing professional web layouts for clients, I find myself appreciating the quick, easy, and well-documented jQuery library. I just don’t have time to hassle with Dojo and its size, widgets I don’t need, and messy documentation.

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Without a doubt, my favorite Javascript library is Dojo Toolkit.

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A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes. Interesting writeup of a meta-forum app, including code samples and time breakdown.
Found via Django Forums.
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This summer, I’ve been converting my biggest site, Invisible Castle, from Cheetah to straight Cheetah templates to Django. I’m a total Django convert, as is obvious from this site.

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Yet another great use for Django is to make trivial the creation of shared tables & forms for internal projects.

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This weekend I wrote my first Google Checkout integration module.

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As I’ve mentioned before, I am building my own web store using Django. The coding is going extremely quickly, thanks to the excellence of the framework.
I find myself marvelling at how quickly and simply various elements come together, especially when I contrast this to my previous experience doing the same thing with Java for […]

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