Tag: django
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Launching ReportingOn 1.0
This is an experiment. I launched what I’ll call ReportingOn 1.0 this afternoon, as an unfinished application to help journalists of all stripes make connections based on their beat. It’s the word “unfinished” that’s the most experimental part of this right now. I guess it’s my translation of “iterative.” The premise is this: Launch what…
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django-simplecomment – Google Code
JB’s simple commenting app for Django. django-simplecomment – Google Code
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Advanced Django template tags and filters | Blue Flavor
Includes a few supercool picks, like how to use the “cycle” tag to switch between ‘odd’ and ‘even’ classes in a list (think: zebra stripes in comment lists). Advanced Django template tags and filters | Blue Flavor
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Django tips: get the most out of generic views
Yet another useful rundown from James Bennett. Includes bits of what I needed: help getting generic lists filtered by user. Django tips: get the most out of generic views
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First Two Django Screencasts – Eric Florenzano’s Website
Instructions fo using the django-pagination module. First Two Django Screencasts – Eric Florenzano’s Website
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Cross-pollinate or shrivel
I’m profoundly enthralled by things like rapid news-driven development in Django, and building a CMS that can switch from a beautiful feature layout to a Drudge-like breaking news linkbomb on a dime, and of course, leveraging the steady stream of free embeddable tools showing up online every day for your own newsy purposes. But none…
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Hedged down: Practical Django Projects
Annotations to the James Bennett book. Hedged down: Practical Django Projects
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palewire / Five ways your data app can catch the big news hook.
A manifesto on news-driven-development, built around the concrete example of presenting data from the LA train crash last Friday as evergreen information, rather than a series of text blobs. palewire / Five ways your data app can catch the big news hook.
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mattwaite.com | My annotated guide to DjangoCon videos
Thank @mattwaite for posting these notes on sessions at the (first ever?) Django conference. Required viewing here includes lessons on geodjango. mattwaite.com | My annotated guide to DjangoCon videos
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Things to do…
Now that I’m back from vacation, here’s what’s on my to-do list for, uh, the foreseeable future: Finish developing the pre-alpha version of ReportingOn and launch it. Like, really, really soon. Go to SND/APME next week, speak on Sunday, go to some awesome sessions and pimp ReportingOn to every editor I meet. Write the first…