Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 13

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode we take our server that we started in Episode 1, and we install everything necessary to deploy our site. That includes Apache, nginx, Django, some reusable apps, and PostgreSQL.

  • Running Time: 20:32
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Monday, October 13, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 12

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode, we first enable development media serving, and then we use jQuery and some of Django's built-in constructs to easily add AJAX-like capabilities to our site.

  • Running Time: 15:31
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Monday, October 6, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 11

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode we update our events app to take advantage of the social networking features that we have built, using some more advanced QuerySet techniques (including one tip by reader janr). I also discover a bug on the live site, and give a preview of how deployment will work.

  • Running Time: 13:25
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Friday, October 3, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 10

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode we use Django's generic views to create a list of all the new users, write a performance-oriented inclusion tag, and write some code that lets users follow their friends from that page as well. All of the code that we go over this week is the latest code from GitHub.

  • Running Time: 13:54
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 9

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode, we use the techniques that we have learned in creating our events app to continue building out the social networking aspects of the site. We're able to use the technique of passing in extra parameters to a view via the url configuration to re-use one function to serve three separate slices of data.

  • Running Time: 15:21
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