Inspired by the graphical cheat sheet here, I've recently moved over to Vim as my main development environment.
After installing a whole range of plugins, I found that one of them, taglist, no longer worked with my Django code. The reason was that something was changing the filetype of ...
more ...One of the things I wanted to do with this blog was to cover some of the design patterns I've discovered/come across/stolen over the years I've been working with Django. So this is the first in what I hope will be a long-running series on Django ...
more ...We've been using django-MPTT at work for quite a while. It's a great way to manage hierarchical data in a read-efficient way, and we use it heavily in our CMS application. I'll definitely be talking about it further in future posts.
Recently we moved our database migrations ...
more ...This is intended to be primarily a technical blog, so I was keen to get the presentation of code snippets correct. I'm a - shall we say - fairly frequent answerer on StackOverflow, and I've got used to their Markdown-enabled edit box. Luckily, the Mingus basic-blog application allows a choice ...
more ...I don't go to a lot of tech conferences - family life tends to make getting away for any length of time fairly difficult. So originally I ignored the banners advertising the Stack Overflow DevDays, thinking I wouldn't be able to make it anyway. But when my employer arbitrarily ...
more ...This blog is built using Kevin Fricovsky's excellent django-mingus project, which is mainly a set of standard pre-existing reusable apps with some templates and a bit of glue to hold it together.
Although it's quite usable out of the box, I found - inveterate hacker that I am - that ...
more ...Warning: this entry is very much a matter of 'This isn't the right way to do it, but it works for me'.
For small projects that are in active development, I frequently have to deploy code changes to the live server. To make this as simple as possible for ...
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