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Month of Django Tips
James Bennett is going to try to blog everyday for the month of November with a new Django tip each day. Let me just say that the first post is quite good, and I can only hope the rest of the month is filled with such useful information. His blog archives will quickly become an excellent reference.
Django Master Class
This was an excelllent presentation. Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Simon Wilson and Jeremy Dunck presented on Django, covering a number of very useful topics. A couple of these things were areas I really needed to get my head around, so this helped a lot. My highlights:
- Unit Testing - An excellent overview of the testing available testing methods and how to use them.
- Middleware == Rails Filters (not Java/Enterprise Middleware)
- Forms with AJAX how-to. jQuery looks like a nice AJAX library.
- Custom Model Fields - actually telling you how to do this.
Jacob has posted the slides and notes online, read them and take advantage of this cool stuff and more.
UTOSC Presentation
Well, I'm presenting at the Utah Open Source Conference this coming September. My topic is Using Django to Drive Internal Development and Tools. I'll be starting off with the Django basics, giving a good tutorial on how things work. From there we'll dive into running your existing tools and code from a web interface with Django. Finally I'll discuss some tips for integrating with your existing environment. It should be pretty fun, and I'm looking forward to the presentation.
Improving Django's direct_to_template Static Page System
For this site I have a large number of static pages. Django provides two ways of serving such content: flatpages and the generic view direct_to_template. I prefer the direct_to_template system, but it gets a bit overwhelming when you have a lot pages. I didn't want to define a url pattern for each page, so I wrote a system to handle it. With this system I never have to write a single url pattern, or even an explicit URL.
First we add to our urls.py the pattern:
(r'^(?P<page>.+?)/(?P<path>.*?)/?$', 'website.site.views.static_page')
Now we define the actual view; take note this depends on a dictionary of lists called pages:
def static_page(request, path, page):
if not path and page in pages:
template = ''.join((page,"/index.html"))
elif page in pages and path in pages[page]:
template = ''.join((page, "/", path, ".html"))
else:
raise Http404
return render_to_response ...
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