8 Items for September 2009


BLOG2009 Sep 09

DjangoCon 2009 Day 1

The first day of DjangoCon has come and gone. Just like DjangoCon 2008, this conference is a big highlight for me. Not only is everything in this conference directly related since I use Django full-time, but the chance to meet people that I only know as a Twitter or IRC ...

BLOG2009 Sep 10

DjangoCon 2009 Day 2

Here's my DjangoCon Day 2 notes...

Keynote by Ian Bicking

I would never do this justice with a short summary, but thankfully Ian posted his talk as a blog post: Toward a new self-definition for open source

Using Django in Non-Standard Ways by Eric Florenzano

This talk was a ...

BLOG2009 Sep 12

DjangoCon 2009 Day 3

Notes from Day 3 at DjangoCon 2009...

Keynote by Ted Leung

Ted gave a great, thought provoking keynote. Here's a few interesting bits I jotted down:

  • Django jobs increased 692%. What time period that covers I don't know but the point is there's a lot more Django ...

Link2009 Sep 17

django-safeform

CSRF protection for Django implemented at the form level - no middleware required.

BLOG2009 Sep 20

Using Vim and Snipmate with Django

Not long ago I found the SnipMate plugin for Vim, which implements some of TextMate's snippets features in Vim. A snippet is a piece of often-typed text that you can insert into your document using a trigger word followed by a tab.

I didn't find any Django snippets ...

BLOG2009 Sep 21

Using Django for iPhone Content Development

The iPhone can use a SQLite database as a content source and managing that content can easily be done using Django and Django's built-in admin. Here's how...

Note: I'll assume a stock Mac OS 10.6 install which already has Python and SQLite support baked in.

Install ...