Tuesday, January 29, 2008

Mapping Flatpage URLs

with host Michael Trier

In this screencast I cover how to map specific URLs to the Flatpages contrib. There are times when you want the advantages and flexibility of flatpages, but also do not want URL mapping to be open ended and are uncomfortable with the fallback middleware approach. Watch this screencast and learn more.

  • Running Time: 15:14
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Wednesday, January 23, 2008

Using git with Django

with host Brian Rosner

In this screencast I cover how to utilize git with the Django subversion.

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Thursday, December 13, 2007

NewForms Personalization

with host Michael Trier

In this screencast I cover NewForms Personalization. Often you have a drop down or some other field in your NewForm that you need to have personalized, or changed based on the logged in user or other instance criteria. This screencast will show you how to accomplish that in your applications.

  • Running Time: 13:31
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Tuesday, November 20, 2007

Custom Management Commands

with host Michael Trier

In this screencast I cover adding custom management commands into your Django applications. Custom management commands are a method of extending Django’s built-in commands that are made available through the manage.py or django-admin.py scripts.

  • Running Time: 41:09
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Thursday, October 25, 2007

Syndication Framework II

with host Michael Trier

In this screencast I cover implementing model based feeds using the syndication framework.

We’ll start where we left off last time and enhance our simple blogging application by adding feeds for individual sections of the website. We will walk through modifications to the urls.py, implementation of a model based Feed class, and changes to our base template to expose the feeds. Finally I will briefly cover how you can use Atom feeds in place of RSS.

  • Running Time: 33:06
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