Archive for the ‘Django’ Category

Largest open-source Django project

Saturday, March 20th, 2010

Thierry Schellenbach from YouTellMe.nl recently wrote on his blog that their site is probably the largest Django project in terms of codebase. Since their project isn’t open-source, it’s hard to tell if that claim is true or not.

But it got me wondering. What is the largest open-source Django-based project around?

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Migrating Django models with south and converting data

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

I use South whenever a model needs to be changed. One thing that is not really documented in the South documentation is how to convert data. After some trial and error I found a way to use Django QuerySets to access both the old and new models to convert data.

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My Django development environment

Wednesday, February 4th, 2009

IDE

After using a few other IDE’s I settled down with Eclipse with Aptana plug-in as the IDE I use for peach³ development. This one environment has support for everything I need while developing a Django application: Python, HTML and JavaScript support is great, with code completion, including completion for the Ext.js javascript library. And I even have the idea that I’m not using the full power of Eclipse yet.

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