First off, out of the box, Django lets you construct API responses with a little work. All you need to do is something like this:
# Copied from https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/class-based-views/#more-than-just-html
from django import http
from django.utils import simplejson as json
class JSONResponseMixin ...There are comments.
Today I'm starting a new project. I'm working as fast as I can and hope to launch on Friday. What are my package dependencies?
Unlike my last quick project which was Flask, this effort really falls into Django's sweet spot. I need sessions, forms ...
There are comments.
This is a day long coding event in Los Angeles for Open Source developers of all languages and skill levels to come and code like fiends. They'll be joined by dozens of either really smart coders or nice people like me. Sponsors are providing food, drinks, venue, and more ...
read moreThere are comments.
This year in June, the European edition of DjangoCon is going to be held in lovely Zurich, Switzerland. It is my great fortune and delight to announce that Audrey and I will be attending. Hooray!
Needless to say, we're extremely excited. My trip to Europe in 2007 was an ...
read moreThere are comments.
On October 16th, 2011, which was one hundred and sixty-four days before I published this post, I resolved to get myself onto the Longest Streak list of Calendar About Nothing. Today, with this blog post, I've managed to do just that - get on the Longest Streaks.
Calendar About Nothing ...
read moreThere are comments.
A few months ago me and my fiancee, Audrey Roy, launched our start up, Consumer Notebook. It's a Python powered product comparison site that combines the best features of Open Comparison, Yelp, Consumer Reports, and Pinterest. We've worked day and night to make it better, with countless members ...
read moreThere are comments.
This is one of those challenging posts to write. The people whose projects I'm going to describe have put in a lot of dedicated, hard work to overcome a challenging subject. Writing an OAuth consumer is a hard problem and writing an OAuth provider is an even harder problem ...
read moreThere are comments.
In mid-November me and my fiancee, Audrey Roy began our startup. We had been frustrated with trying to do on-line product research and came up with an idea to take the lessons learned from Django Packages / Open Comparison and apply them to a commercial effort. The result has been Consumer ...
read moreThere are comments.
I had been meaning to do this for some time, and even had a nascent page for it on this site already. I just noticed my old friend Jessica Hammer was featured on usesthis.com. Then I remembered Kenneth Reitz blogged about his tools not that long ago. Looks like ...
read moreThere are comments.
In June of 2011 I had the good fortune of having my then girlfriend, Audrey Roy, now fiancee, invited to present a keynote speech at PyCon Australia 2011.
I was terribly excited for her to get that invitation, and that excitement was compounded when they allowed me to present on ...
read moreThere are comments.
Me and Audrey have been working hard on Consumer Notebook, a Python/Django based project. We submitted it to PyCon StartUp row and found out this morning we've been accepted. Hooray!
From the PyCon StartUp Row winner's post, here is a little bit of what we're about ...
read moreThere are comments.
Rather than hard-code the configuration into a Python based settings file, when using a PaaS such as Heroku you want to pick up the MongoDB URI from the system settings. Here's what I do:
# get the dynamic elements from the MongoURI
import os
import re
r = r'^mongodb\:\/\/(?P ...There are comments.
I started on django-uni-form in January 2009. In order to use Pinax on an internal social network for NASA HQ, we had to render all content, including forms, Section 508 compliant. Rather than rewrite the html for all 50+ forms that existed in the Pinax 0.5.x framework at ...
read moreThere are comments.
The PyCon tutorial on Django in Depth was ending. I had been sitting next to my friend Barbara and we got up to go when I heard a feminine voice ask: "Are you bshaurette?" I turned and it was like I got punched in the gut.
It was the first ...
read moreThere are comments.
What I did to get it running:
pip install pelican git clone git://github.com/pydanny/pydanny.github.com.git
My settings.py file:
AUTHOR = 'Daniel Greenfeld'
DISQUS_SITENAME = 'pydanny'
GITHUB_URL = 'https://github.com/pydanny'
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS='UA-18066389-2'
SITEURL = 'http://pydanny.github.com'
SITENAME = 'pydanny'
SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'http://twitter.com/pydanny'),
('github ...
read more
There are comments.
I've had issues with Blogger for some time. After my fiancee, Audrey Roy, moved her blog to https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll, I was impressed enough to give it a try.
Why did it impress me?
I don't have to hand-craft HTML ...
There are comments.