Seemant's Entries in Category: Django

I’ve been working with Marijn on a few bugs in preparation for a gnucash version bump. Phew, that’s a lotta links. Anyway, for those of you who are waiting for the version bump, I’m sorry to take so long — it’s just that I want to get the guile/slib/g-wrap stuff bumped and sorted out as well, so that we can start the new version with fresh dependencies.

With Ferris’ help, I will now also be …

In still other news, I’ve been playing with django’s newforms module for creating forms on the websites I’ve got in the pipeline. It looks like the StreamBase website will finally be content-managed, though not by django, but by something else. I’m hard at work on getting the website for Aimee going. This weekend will be a ReportLab weekend for me. There are some documents on the church site that will be in both web-readable and PDF-able …

I’d like to talk about future-proofing for a bit. One of the things that’s niggled at me for quite a few years has been the suffixes you find in websites. In the beginning you had either “.htm” or “.html”, and even that was annoying. It’s one thing to have everything be .html. But then (I think FrontPage or its ilk were responsible, but someone please set the record straight here) we got .htm pages as well. Now …

So, I’ve been writing a CMS thingy to manage the website for my wife. That has taken a bit of a turn on the backburner, but it’s returning to the front next week. In the meantime, I wrote up django apps for part of the websites where I work. It took quite some learning. Along the way, I learned about decorators and manipulators and validators and templatetags and context processors. Pretty much everything was learned out of James …

So, I’m in the Django IRC channel yesterday. Well, let me back up for a minute. I’m working on a mock-up/demo for djangofying (did I just invent a word here?) some parts of the StreamBase websites. So, I’m deciding on the models and stuff, and it occurs to me that some pages use the same models, just in different ways (based on various aspects of the model). And so, I think that there must be something …

Look here, Christian, don’t you dare think about leaving, ok? I think the extended break is a good idea, but you’ve yet to actually do it, you know :p.

In fact, for someone on holiday, you’ve been extraordinarily active. So, do what you need to do, just don’t leave. That is all.

As for the bitchfests and flamefests, it actually seems to me as though things are improving in a small, almost imperceptible way. Let’s …

Once in a while, you come across a a fantastic information piece that’s top-notch in presentation. This guy had me giggling at 1 in the morning, and I learned stuff from that post (which is why I was up in the first place).

You know, all this talk about communities and getting along got me thinking about something. By the way, that segue was sponsored anonymously. I would have to say that the community that really impresses me is …

You know, one of the things that has maybe gotten lost sight of in the past few years in Gentoo is: what exactly is Gentoo, anyway? Is it a distro? Is it a meta-distro? What the hell is a meta-distro anyway?

So, I’ve been playing with Django a lot lately. And that obviously makes people think of Ruby on Rails for some reason. But here’s the point: django and ruby are frameworks that allow me to build what …