Webfaction Limited Review
29 Oct 2008 12:48pm GMT I’ve seen a lot of recommendations for Webfaction for new Django developers who want an easy to use hosting solution. As you can see from previous posts that I have a VPS that I’ve set up Django on. I was having problems getting one of my applications to work, and I wondered if it was [...]
Django Tip: get_FIELD_display()
3 Oct 2008 10:45pm GMT I’m posting this because it seems rather simple, but it took me a while to find - even with some tips from some helpful people in the #django IRC channel. Let’s say you have a ChoiceField set up like the documents describe: class Foo(models.Model): GENDER_CHOICES = ( [...]
Dynamic Filtered Drop-Down Choice Fields With Django
3 Oct 2008 5:05pm GMT I’m enjoying the Django framework. Sometimes, what was seems rather easy (relatively speaking) gets sort of complicated when working within the boundaries of a framework. Such was the case with my latest endeavor to filter on drop-down based on the selection of another drop-down. Here is the situation: I have a database with car makes and [...]
Setting up Django on a WHM/cPanel VPS (LiquidWeb)
25 Sep 2008 12:55pm GMT I ordered a new VPS from LiquidWeb for the purpose of using it to host our company’s new product that I’m currently writing in Django. I have another VPS with LiquidWeb and I highly recommend them! I got Django up and running on my other server with some help of LiquidWeb support. This time I’m going [...]
I Hate RC Willey
22 Sep 2008 4:49pm GMT So it was labor day. For some reason - likely do to excessive advertising, I think of RC Willey on Labor day. My wife has been wanting a bedroom set. We were planning on ordering from Canopy, but I thought it would be fun to go look at RC Willey and see if they [...]