Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 8

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode, we build the foundation for all of the social networking aspects of the site. We're building off a lot of knowledge in this episode. What took us several screencasts to do for events, we're able to cover in a single screencast here.

  • Running Time: 14:04
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Monday, September 29, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 7

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode, we add an archive view for looking at events that have happened in the past, and then we write an inclusion tag for events. Writing an inclusion tag not only makes our code more clean, but it allows us to follow the principle of DRY.

  • Running Time: 13:20
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Thursday, September 25, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 6

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode, we ensure that users are logged in for all of the views that depend on request.user being a the current user instance, by wrapping our view in a login_required decorator. We also created a rudimentary navigation user interface. Finally, we added the ability to toggle event attendance.

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Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 5

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode, we learn how to use Django's forms library (formerly referred to as newforms) to allow users of the site to be able to add new events to the system. We cover using ModelForms and how that allows us to tie a form instance to a model instance, and how it enables us to use only a subset of fields on the model to generate the form.

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Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 4

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode we cover a lot of ground: setting up our url configuration, writing a view to get all of the events for tonight, creating a base template, and extending that base template to render the results of the view that we wrote.

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