Monday, September 22, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episode 3

with host Eric Florenzano

In this episode we continue to build out our events application. Before building our models any further, we decide to install the Django admin site so that we can explore the models. Then we touch on some more advanced topics for more easily querying our Event model.

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Thursday, September 18, 2008

Django From the Ground Up: Episodes 1 and 2

with host Eric Florenzano

Developing a complete web application takes a lot of work! If you're anything like me, a good example can clear up a lot of confusion and make things a lot easier. In this series, "Django From the Ground Up" I seek to change that - from setting up version control, building the models, views, and crafting the templates, to setting up and automatically deploying to a production server, Django From the Ground Up takes you every step along the way.

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Sunday, July 20, 2008

newforms-admin Migration and Screencast

with host Brian Rosner

In this screencast I cover how to update your Django code to work with the recent merge of newforms-admin and onward to Django 1.0.

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Saturday, February 9, 2008

NewForms Admin I

with host Michael Trier

In this screencast I cover converting an existing application to the NewForms-Admin Branch of Django. We will cover hooking the NewForms-Admin into our urls.py module, extracting out the inner Admin class information into a NewForms-Admin class, handling the prepopulate_from, and organizing our admin class information into a separate module.

  • Running Time: 21:09
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Friday, February 1, 2008

Application Settings

with host Michael Trier

In this screencast I cover how to implement application based settings in a way that keeps the application pluggable. Watch this screencast and learn more.

  • Running Time: 9:00
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