http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com & Wasted Ink Thu, 12 Nov 2009 05:47:58 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I have heard it said that Django reusable apps are not. On some level, I agree with this. On another, I disagree. Reusable apps need can be reusable if done right. The biggest thing that make a non-reusable app is bad documentation. If documentation doesn't say how to integrate the app, ... http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/62 Last Thursday* was the 3rd PyMNtos meeting. Kevin Marshall gave a good talk on using Windmill to test through the browser. Windmill makes testing through the browser extremely easy by recording what you do in the browser to Python files. Then you can automate running those tests to ensure all Ajax/Javascript/etc ... http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/54 At work recently, our team was asked what would make us more productive. I said drop ClearCase and embrace something, anything better. My manager asked what Git (my preferred tool) has to offer that would make us more productive. I replied with the normal things like generally faster and branching. Today's ... http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/49 Background: Over the past year and a half, I have been learning and using Python. I found that I really love Python, but was bemoaning the fact that there is no Python Users Group in the Twin Cities. There had been a Zope/Python group back in 2003/2004, but they are not ... http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/42 Ah, yes: things in the environment can wink out of existence as well--newtorks, files'[sic] URLs, license keys, users, printers--you name it. Pragmatic Unit Testing Grab the nearest book. Open it to page 56. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. Don't dig for your favorite book, ... http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/40 WARNING: DO NOT REPRODUCE THIS BUG WITHOUT REALIZING THE CONSEQUENCES! I recently had a good need for using virtualenv due working on multiple Django projects.  With that, I decided to use virtualenvwrapper as well. I absolutely love these too programs since they make managing different environments extremely easy. Virtualenv provides a ... http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/36 In my last post, I showed a way to override a widget on the change/add page in the Django admin site. Now I will show how to process the marked up text. First, here is what my model looks like: #models.py from django.db import models class Post(models.Model): title = models.CharField(max_length=100) ... http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/33 In an app I am creating in Django, I decided I want to be able to format some text. There are several ways I could do this: allow all HTML, some HTML, or some other markup syntax. I decided I don't want HTML for security reasons, either all or just ... http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/22 I can't wait to play with it and see what is new! I have been really digging Python lately, and am extremely excited. http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/20 I have been closely following Django as it nears the 1.0 release.  I have been using Django for about 6 months now.  It is the first framework that I have actually grokked.  Before Django, I never understood the idea of frameworks.  I don't know if Django is the best, but ... http://www.fictitiousnonsense.com/archives/18