'django' Category
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Feb022006
Zope vs Django – Here’s some gasoline to put out the fire
This started out as a small comment to Paul Everitt’s post “Python, web frameworks, acts of good faith, making the case”, but it quickly became a long rant deserving its own space.
Having spent quality time with both Plone (2+ years) and Django (6+ months), I have some experience and basis for comparison between the two [...]
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Feb012006
Hacking in LDAP support to Django
I finally started using Django in a production app at work. I need to add username/password authentication, but I don’t want YANP (Yet Another Name and Password) for my users to remember. The obvious solution is to hook into ThoughtWorks’ internal LDAP server. But alas, Django does not have LDAP support built-in.
However, it was very [...]
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Jan042006
How does one flip a coin on the internet?
Real world story:
A “lead developer of Selenium” has been invited to speak at FOSDEM next month.
Both Paul Hammant and I want to go and speak. Both of us can take some claim as “lead developer” of Selenium, only it’s a been awhile since either one of us has committed any code! (I created Selenium in [...]
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Dec042005
Web 2.0 Needs its Own Magazine
The hardware guys now have Make. But what do the software guys and girls have for all that is need-to-know in the Web 2.0 world? Wired? Sorry, Wired is now like MTV after they got rid of the music videos. (Perhaps that means that Wired should spawn a sister magazine called Wired2.)
Another possibility is Business [...]
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Dec022005
Wish List Item #1: Agile Development in a Box
It would be nice if I could have an “Agile Project in a Box” Linux distro or “megaframework .deb file” based on Ubuntu with Subversion, Trac, Buildbot (the Python equivalent of CruiseControl), Selenium, and Mail/News/Forum/Feeds software (Gmane?) all pre-installed and ready to go for “Iteration Zero” on a new project. You could even wrap it [...]