oCricket Blog » python http://blog.ocricket.com What's happening at oCricket Mon, 18 May 2009 08:48:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Real World Django http://blog.ocricket.com/real-world-django/ http://blog.ocricket.com/real-world-django/#comments Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:15:50 +0000 Brajeshwar http://11.ocricket.com/?p=188 Continue reading →]]> 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.

]]> http://blog.ocricket.com/real-world-django/feed/ 0 New Feature: Live cricket scores and secure email addresses http://blog.ocricket.com/live-cricket-scores-and-secure-email-addresses/ http://blog.ocricket.com/live-cricket-scores-and-secure-email-addresses/#comments Tue, 03 Mar 2009 19:01:27 +0000 Baishampayan Ghose http://blog.ocricket.com/?p=62 Continue reading →]]> We are happy to announce that oCricket now has live cricket scores of international matches! The scores can be seen on the top right hand corner all pages on oCricket and they look like the one below:

Live Score on oCricket

But don’t you think it would be cool if you could put live cricket scores on your website/blog too? We have done exactly that. Now you can easily add a simple JavaScript one-liner to your website and get live Cricket scores. Additionally, we also have a WordPress plugin for all you WordPress users. Head over to toys.ocricket.com for the details.

We have also made a small change which stops spammers from stealing your Email address from your profile page — your Email address is now shown only to your friends and taken some measures in making your Email completely spam proof (hint: the Email that you see on your profile is an image).

Enjoy, and watch out for some really awesome features in the very near future :)

]]> http://blog.ocricket.com/live-cricket-scores-and-secure-email-addresses/feed/ 0 Washington Times releases open source projects http://blog.ocricket.com/washington-times-releases-open-source-projects/ http://blog.ocricket.com/washington-times-releases-open-source-projects/#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 07:16:30 +0000 Brajeshwar http://11.ocricket.com/?p=184 Continue reading →]]> 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.
]]> http://blog.ocricket.com/washington-times-releases-open-source-projects/feed/ 0 Rails versus Django http://blog.ocricket.com/rails-versus-django/ http://blog.ocricket.com/rails-versus-django/#comments Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:01:53 +0000 Brajeshwar http://11.ocricket.com/?p=182 Continue reading →]]> “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)

]]> http://blog.ocricket.com/rails-versus-django/feed/ 0 Python 3.0 released http://blog.ocricket.com/python-30-released/ http://blog.ocricket.com/python-30-released/#comments Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:20:36 +0000 Harsh http://11.ocricket.com/?p=168 Continue reading →]]> Python 3.0 (a.k.a. “Python 3000″ or “Py3k”) is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places.

]]> http://blog.ocricket.com/python-30-released/feed/ 0 Django-Taggable http://blog.ocricket.com/django-taggable/ http://blog.ocricket.com/django-taggable/#comments Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:19:11 +0000 Brajeshwar http://11.ocricket.com/?p=156 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+”

]]> http://blog.ocricket.com/django-taggable/feed/ 0 Submit Photos from Flickr and Videos from Youtube http://blog.ocricket.com/flickr-photos-youtube-videos/ http://blog.ocricket.com/flickr-photos-youtube-videos/#comments Wed, 05 Nov 2008 11:14:30 +0000 Brajeshwar http://blog.ocricket.com/?p=27 Continue reading →]]> 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.

]]> http://blog.ocricket.com/flickr-photos-youtube-videos/feed/ 1 Django From the Ground Up (Screencast) http://blog.ocricket.com/django-from-the-ground-up-screencast/ http://blog.ocricket.com/django-from-the-ground-up-screencast/#comments Fri, 19 Sep 2008 10:27:41 +0000 Brajeshwar http://blog.ocricket.com/?p=13 Continue reading →]]> This Week in Django have a series of screencast — Django From the Ground Up – from setting up version control, building the models, views, and crafting the templates, to setting up and automatically deploying to a production server.The resulting site that talked in the screencast is at StartTheDark — a site that lets you easily plan out your night with your friends. The complete source code, including all of the media, is available on GitHub. All of the links can also be found at the open source page on StartTheDark itself.

So, head over to Django from the ground up for the screencast and the details.

Download the Episodes

UPDATES

]]> http://blog.ocricket.com/django-from-the-ground-up-screencast/feed/ 0 Looking at templates for forms in Django … http://blog.ocricket.com/looking-at-templates-for-forms-in-django/ http://blog.ocricket.com/looking-at-templates-for-forms-in-django/#comments Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:34:46 +0000 harshad http://11.ocricket.com/looking-at-templates-for-forms-in-django/ Looking at templates for forms in Django http://linkbun.ch/1gns

]]> http://blog.ocricket.com/looking-at-templates-for-forms-in-django/feed/ 0 What's new in Python 2.6 http://blog.ocricket.com/whats-new-in-python-26/ http://blog.ocricket.com/whats-new-in-python-26/#comments Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:43:34 +0000 Brajeshwar http://11.ocricket.com/?p=98 Continue reading →]]> The major theme of Python 2.6 is preparing the migration path to Python 3.0, a major redesign of the language. Whenever possible, Python 2.6 incorporates new features and syntax from 3.0 while remaining compatible with existing code by not removing older features or syntax. When it’s not possible to do that, Python 2.6 tries to do what it can, adding compatibility functions in a future_builtins module and a -3 switch to warn about usages that will become unsupported in 3.0.

]]> http://blog.ocricket.com/whats-new-in-python-26/feed/ 0 The Python Property Builtin http://blog.ocricket.com/the-python-property-builtin/ http://blog.ocricket.com/the-python-property-builtin/#comments Sat, 23 Aug 2008 13:05:38 +0000 Brajeshwar http://11.ocricket.com/?p=61 Adam Gomaa explains the Python property built-in and shows how it can be used to improve Django’s model-based URL generation.

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