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django, you make things so easy

Adding RSS feeds was super easy, with Django's syndication framework in the contrib applications. I wanted to be able to have RSS feeds that would only follow entries tagged with something, so that you could only follow my entries written in english or that are about django. It turns out i got that done with a 7 line change.
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Tags: django, english, geeky, metablogging, python, web

by wiswaud on 15 April 2009 | 2 comments

PyCon 2009, day 3

This is day 3 of the conference (see also my notes on day 1 and day 2). They've also announced that PyCon 2010 will in Atlanta, GA, on February 19th to 21st, though the precise dates might change a little. I am unfortunately unable to attend the sprints that will be happening this coming week, and i'm going back to Montréal today. Thanks to Akoha for paying for the trip, and for the entire PyCon team for putting the conference together. It was a great conference, and if anybody reading this is wondering whether they should go, by all means you should try to make it to Atlanta next year. In the meantime, read below for my account of the talks i attended today.
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Tags: chicago, django, english, geeky, pycon, python

by wiswaud on 29 March 2009 | 1 comment

PyCon 2009, day 2

This is day 2 of the conference (see also my notes on day 1). Another interesting day full of interesting talks, with a keynote by Guido, a few django talks and some more random things. You can definitely feel how django is just taking off, it's amazing. Last year there were roughly the same number of talks on each of a few different web frameworks. This year it seems that django has the same number of talks as all other frameworks together... Well not quite: i just counted 4 full django talks, 5 web framework non-django talks - but still.
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Tags: chicago, django, english, geeky, pycon, python, web

by wiswaud on 28 March 2009 | 0 comments

PyCon 2009, day 1

I am very happy to have come to PyCon for the third year in a row. This gathering of python geeks is a very good conference to go to. The mix of people, from basement hobbyist kids to corporate types, is great. I got to PyCon by getting up at 3:40am this morning and taking the 5:44 flight from Montréal. The hotel is much nicer than last year; i got an awesome room on the 10th floor, with a balcony! So far the conference itself is pretty much like last year, with the talk and speaker quality varying wildly. Lunch was pleasantly improved, and served, not a buffet. The wifi pretty much just worked for me, and still works quite well, but there's again many... less technically-inclined people who keep creating adhoc networks with the same name as the conf network. Still, working a lot better than last year, so far. In general, many kudos to the organizers: the amount of things that need to go right for such a conference is incredible, and the registration fees are ridiculously low and yet the result is an extremely well organized conference. Overall, i'd say that if you want to watch a few presentations, from what i saw today i'd recommend you watch the python namespaces, automated qa, coverage and the everyblock talks. The videos are surely not up yet, but i'm assured they will be at some point. Another nice addition is that the schedule has diamond ratings which give a rough idea of the technical level. Here's a dump of point-form notes with some commentary from the talks i attended.
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Tags: chicago, django, english, pycon, python

by wiswaud on 27 March 2009 | 2 comments

django ajax comments with reCAPTCHA

It turns out that the default django comments mechanisms for fighting spam are not very effective at all, contrary to my expectations. So i had to bring reCAPTCHA back. But then i figured i might as well do some kind of ajax comment form if i'm going to rewrite my commenting. A few problems cropped up, and it's still ugly, but it works now, and i haven't had a single spam comment since, whereas i consistently had a couple a day before.
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Tags: django, english, geeky, metablogging, python, web

by wiswaud on 24 March 2009 | 6 comments

updated to django 1.0.2

I finally updated this site to django 1 - 1.0.2, specifically. It took me a while, simply because i was an idiot and the way i customized the comments application so it would use reCAPTCHA to detect non-humans was just retarded. That, and i was lazy.
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Tags: django, english, geeky, metablogging, spam sucks, web

by wiswaud on 13 December 2008 | 1 comment

Django templates, and proper decorators...

It all started with a very simple thing: make a decorator that will make a view only accessible by users who are part of a certain group. But it rapidly degenerated...
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Tags: akoha, django, english, geeky, python, web

by wiswaud on 4 December 2008 | 4 comments

fourth day at pycon 2008

This fourth day at PyCon 2008, the third and last day of actual talks, was quite good. Updates on the OLPC, on python in Mozilla, and another keynote on creating and distributing python applications, and talks about python internals, then TurboGear wrapped up the talks.
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Tags: django, english, geeky, python

by wiswaud on 17 March 2008 | 0 comments

pycon 2008, third day

This third day at PyCon 2008 (the conference's second day) had a few n00bie talks, but it still had good talks, and it may just be that i didn't choose my sessions wisely. Plus, we went to downtown Chicago were i managed to stop a train all by myself, and i found free wifi from my room.
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Tags: chicago, django, english, geeky, python

by wiswaud on 16 March 2008 | 0 comments

second day at pycon 2008

The second day, which really is the first day of the actual conference, was very good, with lots of very interesting talks.
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Tags: chicago, django, english, geeky, python

by wiswaud on 14 March 2008 | 0 comments

first day at Pycon 2008 (updated)

So i'm at PyCon 2008 in Chicago. A few notes about the conference in general, and the django code lab tutorial we had today.
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Tags: chicago, django, english, geeky, python

by wiswaud on 14 March 2008 | 0 comments

nice helper for editing html in a textarea

I'm lazy. Django gives you a nice admin interface for free for all models you write in your webapp. Sure, you can customize it and everything, but i didn't: it just works. So that's what i use to enter new posts on this blog. But editing html is  a pain when you're lazy, so i found this really neat plugin: Xanha. It lets you open a wysiwyg editor from any textarea, edit the html graphically, then just push the raw html back to the textarea... really cool. Many kudos.

Tags: django, english, geeky, web

by wiswaud on 24 October 2007 | 0 comments

Some tips for Unicode django

As of rev 5609, the unicode branch of Django has been merged into trunk. It's mostly transparent, they say, but i've had a few difficulties with it. Here's a couple of simple tips to help.
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Tags: django, english, geeky, python, web

by wiswaud on 7 August 2007 | 0 comments

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