I'm generally of the opinion that any podcast needs to stay around the 20-minute mark to be effective - in this short-attention-span world, anything longer than that tends to lose my interest and gets bumped from the subscription list faster than you can say "Nano". Michael Trier is doing a ...

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This article just saved me what I'm sure would have been a few hours of work/banging my head on the keyboard and a massive testing-related migraine:

The Test Client Session [dougblog.com]

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Django is really good at serving up dynamic content.

So generating a PDF dynamically from your data is easy:

http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/outputting_pdf/

But a download of a static PDF file? Not so much:

http://www.stuvel.eu/pdfdownload



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If you follow strictly Brian Rosner's screencast on converting to newforms-admin, you'll find you suddenly end up with an admin site that takes away User and Group (permissions) editing options. That's no slight against Brian, believe me - it's a great screencast, and I wouldn't have been able to ...

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In like Flynn

"To be quickly and/or emphatically successful."

I was up at 4-fricking-30 this morning, on the off chance that I might be able to get in on the first round of DjangoCon tickets to be released into the wild. I didn't have high hopes - I figured ...

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