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Django Best Practices

Brajeshwar — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 05:44:45 +0000

“This is a living document of best practices in developing and deploying with the Django Web framework. These should not be seen as the right way or the only way to work with Django, but instead best practices we’ve honed after years of working with the framework.”

Read the article in full – Django Best Practices.

Real World Django

Brajeshwar — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:15:50 +0000

There’s plenty of material (documentation, blogs, books) out there that’ll help you write a site using Django… but then what? You’ve still got to test, deploy, monitor, and tune the site; failure at deployment time means all your beautiful code is for naught.

Read Read World Django as it unfolds the tutorial which examines how best to cope when the Real World intrudes on your carefully designed website.

Washington Times releases open source projects

Brajeshwar — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:16:30 +0000

The Washington Times has released few open source projects. Visit Washington Times Open Source for more.

The Washington Times has used open source projects for some time now. All of our servers run Ubuntu linux. Our database servers use PostgreSQL. Our web servers use lighttpd and Apache httpd, and memcached. We develop entirely in python, using the django framework. We are obviously strong believers in open source.

Rails versus Django

Brajeshwar — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:01:53 +0000

“These are the sorts of differences seen in both stacks. They are common, and commonly pivotal to arguments comparing the two frameworks. Proponents of one framework typically argue one way ‘because it is the way decreed by our language authors’. So really you’re looking at which language you prefer.”

(Via: SuperJared)

South brings migrations to Django applications

Brajeshwar — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:13:31 +0000

The main objectives of South are to provide a simple, stable and database-independent migration layer to prevent all the hassle schema changes over time bring to your Django applications.

Notes on a Django Migration

Brajeshwar — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:51:28 +0000

Scott Hacker, has posted an interesting, and quite detailed post discussing a developer’s move to Django. It’s both a personal account and a researched account, which makes for a strong post.

Read the article — Notes on a Django Migration.

Django-Taggable

Brajeshwar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:19:11 +0000

Gustavo Picon, announced his new project django-taggable. As the author describes, django-taggable is “An efficient, denormalized and multidimensional tagging library for Django 1.0+”

Django 1.0.1 released

Brajeshwar — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:05:24 +0000

Following Django’s previously-announced schedule, the Django team has released Django 1.0.1. This is a bugfix-only release containing fixes and improvements to the Django 1.0 codebase, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone using or targeting Django 1.0.

How the Heck do Django Models Work

Brajeshwar — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:58:09 +0000

Anyone who has used Django for just about any length of time has probably used a Django model, and possibly wondered how it works. The key to the whole thing is what’s known as a metaclass, a metaclass is essentially a class that defines how a class is created.

Read the article in full — How the Heck do Django Models Work?

Submit Photos from Flickr and Videos from Youtube

Brajeshwar — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:14:30 +0000

Well, we’ve been working hard to improvise our codebase and enhance a lot of the internal code framework. The broad updates with this beta release are

Upgraded to the more powerful Python 2.5 Release.
Upgraded the code to the sparkling new Django 1.0.
Added the ability to easily add photos — service starting with Flickr, more services will be added as we go on.
The same goes for videos, starting with YouTube and more services will be added as we go on.
Users can also submit any other Cricket related articles.

The upgrade to Python 2.5 and Django 1.0 is rather technical and I won’t even discuss the details here. But it should be fun to talk a bit about the new additional services added to oCricket and more coming in future.

Flickr

Flickr is the super awesome Photo Sharing website and we wanted users to easily add Cricket photos via Flickr. With this beta release, we’ve added that and we would love to see you try it out. More other Photo sharing sites — Smugmug, Picasa, Photobucket — and lot more will be added pretty soon.

YouTube

YouTube is to Videos as Flickr is to Photos. Along with the ability to add Flickr Photos to oCricket, users can now submit/add videos from YouTube very easily. More other Video sites will be added soon.

Try them out and let us know your feedbacks.

Login with your username or associated email

While the option to use your existing Facebook, Gmail/Google/Orkut, Yahoo! accounts (OpenID) to login to Cricket is in the work, we have already made it easier for users to login using either their username or the email associated with oCricket.

Re-freshed, new design coming soon

Recently, we were able to persuade Adel Anwar to be part of the oTeam. The new User Interface which have been brainstormed, discussed amongst the oCricket team and carefully designed by Adel Anwar is on its way. We’ll be upgrading to the new design around early 2009.

10 useful Django Tips

Brajeshwar — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 06:59:50 +0000

“There are quite a few great little tricks and tips one could use on their Django projects that would speed up development and save many headaches in the long run. From basic to obscure, these tips can help any skill-level of programmer become more adept with Django and all it’s glory.” Via: NetTuts.