All articles tagged django

In part 1, we showed how we use Fabric to update and deploy Django sites to our development server with a single command. This works great when you only have one developer pushing changes to the server, but what happens …

We’re firm believers in the practices described by the Continuous Integration method of software engineering. Among those are: Maintain a code repository Automate the build Automate deployment We use git for our code repositories and Fabric to automate our build/deployment …

Inspired by Eric Florenzano’s talk, Using Django in Non-Standard Ways (slides in PDF) at DjangoCon and the announcement of Tornado (tornadoweb.org), I decided to try building a small application using the Django Form library and Django ORM inside Tornado. The …

Last month, Lincoln Loop gave a talk at EuroDjangoCon about customizing the Django admin interface. After presenting some of the admin customizations we had done on Gondola, I had a bunch of people get in touch with me asking me …

This post got a bit long-winded, skip to the project announcment if you prefer. One of the things I love about Python and Django is the philosophy that there is one obvious way to do things. Standards make it easy …

Satchmo is an amazing E-Commerce engine built on top of Django. After struggling in the past with difficult packages like ZenCart and OSCommerce, Satchmo’s ease of customization make it a joy to work with. Unfortunately, all the features can make …

In the process of prepping Gondola CMS for public consumption, we’ve grown from having a developer (me), to having a development team. One pain point that quickly arose was the amount of time it took for new developers to setup …

We all know not to serve static media (images, CSS, Javascript, etc.) in production directly from Django. Thankfully, Django gives us some nice settings like MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT to make serving them a lot less painless. Lately, however, I’ve come …

After reading the comments on my last post on the subject, I realized there was definitely some room for improvement in my strategy. This is take two of the original post. Problems My original strategy had a couple of downfalls: …

Gondola is our content management system built on top of Django. I briefly showed it off during my DjangoCon Lightning Talk, but have been wanting to give it a proper screencast for a while. Here’s an introduction: A few common …