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Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Joe

I borrowed a copy of Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging from a friend today. Spent the bus ride home from the office flipping through the pages, and I’ve got to say – it’s a pretty darned good book! If you’re … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu 10.04 (Desktop)

Posted on July 5, 2010 by Joe

I’ve been using Ubuntu as my distribution of choice for VM’s and server instances, and on a lark I took a swag at installing Ubuntu desktop onto a VM yesterday. I’ve got to say, it’s a pretty usable setup. I … Continue reading →

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The darker side of Pinax

Posted on February 27, 2010 by Joe

I really like the concept of Pinax, but I’m beginning to see the darker sides of the project. Here’s the fundamental issue: Pinax does a completely kick ass job of making a combined and base project that pulls together a … Continue reading →

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Pinax cheat sheets

Posted on January 24, 2010 by Joe

I have a few friends that I’m bringing up to speed pretty quickly on Django. The basics are going well, and I’m providing the foundations for the effort. To take advantage of all the good stuff out there, I’ve started … Continue reading →

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Using fabric to deploy a Pinax project

Posted on January 23, 2010 by Joe

I spent the better part of this morning screwing around with Fabric to get even a basic deployment working correctly with Pinax. I may be doing this horrifically backwards… Since I finally nailed something that worked for me and I … Continue reading →

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integrated project management for development

Posted on December 24, 2009 by Joe

Ironically, the choices for an in-house integrated project management toolchain are, to my mind, significantly more limited than the straight up open-source market. I have been looking and watching several projects over the past months for something that I could … Continue reading →

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South – incredible easy migrations for Django

Posted on November 15, 2009 by Joe

I’ve been hacking away at a side project for the past three or four weeks – got myself to internal milestone #2 this weekend, for which I’m really pleased. The very tail end of this milestone was deploying the code … Continue reading →

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Setting up a python CI server with Hudson

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Joe

Installing Hudson I start with a basic virtual machine – in this case, I’m using Ubuntu Server 9.10. Once you have a basic machine installed, I recommend you make sure everything’s up to date with patches. sudo apt-get update sudo … Continue reading →

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Knowing when to back off a project…

Posted on July 12, 2009 by Joe

A couple of years ago I created the original code behind project Django Queue Service on a bet with myself at the O’Reilly Open Source Convention. A few months later I popped the whole thing up on Google Code hosting … Continue reading →

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Django 1.0

Posted on September 3, 2008 by Joe

Congratulations to the entire development team and Django community for making the Django 1.0 release today! It’s a monumental accomplishment, and I’m very pleased to see it here. I’m not as active in the community these days, but I’m still … Continue reading →

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