Coder’s Eye

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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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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I’m pleased to report that the Django magic removal branch is now much easier to use. It feels stable, the docs are getting complete, and I see now that the branch has now been merged to the head.My magic-removed code works great, and is passing all its tests with flying colors. Total time taken for three apps was approximately 4 hours.

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Despite my earlier initial successes using the Django Magic-Removal Branch, I had to roll back. The branch code was stuck in an unusable state for a couple weeks when I was really wanting to crank out some functionality on my storefront.
I’ve long since learned that when you have a strong urge to code, […]

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This is just a quick post to confirm that Django does indeed work perfectly on Rimuhosting with very little effort required to set up. It is fast, it connected to my Mysql db without a peep of a complaint, and it is making me a happy developer.
Setup details
I’m using Rimu’s “MiroVPS3″ plan. It […]

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Argh! I simply cannot get Django to work on Dreamhost. I hereby eat my words.
I’m really not worried about it, to be honest.
I tried for hours, and the best I got was extremely spotty results. Even the simple “hello.fcgi” directly copied from the Dreamhost Wiki only works about 30% of the time. […]

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Sometimes I have to remind myself why I am writing a brand-new shopping cart and product management system.

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As part of the Django Storefront system I am writing, I needed to send multipart messages. The base Django mail functionality doesn’t seem to do this, at least not with my version of Python.

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I just sent off my first patch for Django. It adds the ability to send mail via SMTP servers which require authentication. I need this for Dreamhost, which has authentication on its mail servers.
The modifications were simple, and the code I was modifying was refreshingly clean. Better yet, the Django project site […]

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