Coder’s Eye

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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I don’t know how many times I’ve had to write a function to safely join url path components.

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Just a few days ago, I was talking about how much I enjoy PySqlite, and now I’ve found another great tool for my SQL war chest. SQLAlchemy
I am already using it for another part of a big multi-database reporting project. The fun part for me is that it is more modular and less demanding […]

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At work, I’m doing a bunch of data acquisition on various machines outside the firewall. I think I’ve hit on an absolutely great combination of Python technologies to do this in a really manageable and scalable manner.
The design constraints:

No long-running processes. These are heavily loaded boxes. The data acquisition will run via […]

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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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