Working with the Django admin and legacy databases, pt.3
Part 1 | Part 2 After you've run inspectdb and done all your syncing and basic admin setup, take a peek at the models you generated - depending on the state of your legacy db, you've probably wound ... Read more
Working with the Django admin and legacy databases, pt.2
By this time, I'm several weeks into the project and it's time to get you all caught up - let's see if I can break this down into digestable bites. (Btw, don't expect it to you take this long - thi ... Read more
Working with the Django admin and legacy databases, pt.1
This is most likely going to be at least a three-parter, and I'm not getting into any code samples in this first one. I just wanted to give some background into the project I'm working on, so feel fr ... Read more
Generating seed data for PHPUnit tests
I'm working on a pretty massive test harness for a custom framework extension - I won't bore anyone with the details, but I'm using PHPUnit, and for our particular implementation I needed to generate ... Read more
On being a girl in a guy's world
The question has been raised on many occasions: Why there aren't more women in the Python community, or even the programming community at large? I have at least one answer: It's hard to trust that ... Read more
Barbara Liskov wins Turing Award
This is about a month late, but I wanted to make some mention of it before too much time has passed. In March, the news broke that Barbara Liskov was the winner of this year's Turing Award. You ... Read more
Posting to the Twitter API on an admin change
For context, I've been working on a project that involves submitted messages going through a manual review process - once they've been approved in the admin, each message should be posted to Twitter. ... Read more
East Coast vs. West Coast - It's On
Django Dash, "a chance for Django enthusiasts to flex their coding skills", is coming at the end of May. The idea is to give developers a weekend to build a site - any site - with high scores given t ... Read more
Posting to the Twitter API
Just to provide a little bit of context, I'm working on a project that will be similar to secrettweet. Users will be able to post anonymous messages. Those messages will be reviewed manually through ... Read more