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Category: Django
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Brain dump January 2013
I haven’t posted to this blog much recently, so I thought i’d set myself a new routine of blogging at least at the end of each…
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A few notes on image uploading and configuration in Django
I recently added image uploading to Too Old To Skate, and not having set up a “normal” django site for a while, hit about every stumbling…
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DBBUG lightning talks June 2012
On tuesday Potato Bristol hosted the Django Bristol and Bath User Group (DBBUG) lightning talks. It went really well and it was nice to have some…
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Web developer tools of the trade
I’ve had to change machines a few times recently, and each time I wish I had a decent checklist of what I need to be able…
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eatStatic is Dead, long live eatStatic
I was pleased to see people recently enthusing on twitter about text-file based blog and CMS tools – nesta CMS, Kirby and scriptogr.am, as it validated…
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2011 retrospective and plans for 2012
These retrospective posts are annoying aren’t they – kind of like the xmas round-robin letters?! However, I wanted to do one again, because it helps me…
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Notes on deplying django with virtualenv mod_wsgi and apache on ubuntu
As i’ve exclusively been using app engine in my day job at Potato, I haven’t yet had to deal with deploying a django site on my…
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Running Google App Engine SDK on OSX lion
OSX Lion comes with python 2.7 as default. Although App Engine will run on 2.7, it is safer to develop on the version of python that…
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Left the circus, going to work in the Potato field
I’ve mused a few times on this blog about the relative merits of full-time and freelance and what would convince me to go back into a…
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Get a list of attributes for a django object
For a queryset: For a single object instance:- Also for a single object instance – returns fields and values as a dict Iterate through the dict…
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Swoop Patagonia re-skin 3
Last night Dan Fairs pushed the latest version of the django powered Swoop Patagonia site live. The site has several new content management features created by…
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What I did and didn’t do in 2010 and Plans for 2011
It would be rubbish to stop a tradition after only two years, so following on from my posts in 2009 and 2010, here is a retrospective…