Noemi Millman: Triopter: Category Archives for "django"

Django is in fairly heavy development, heading for a 1.0 release, and not only does there seem to be a lot of new functionality in the newest versions, but some of the older functionality is expected to break.

Since word on the mailing list is that development versions are not only quite stable, but actually recommended over the stable version, and since I don’t have any deployed apps to worry about breaking, I thought it would be better to upgrade now than later.

Even better, this will make future upgrades as simple as a single subversion command (and, well, some fixes for …

I was home sick from work today, so once I felt well enough to crawl out of bed and sit in front of the computer, I decided to catch up a bit more on my Django.
Quick-n-Easy Comments
First thing I did was to replace the commenting system I’d created for my blog-app-in-progress with the commenting framework that comes for “free” with Django.  It’s not as fully featured as I might like, but it’s got some pretty nifty options, and is fairly easy to set up.  I figured I’d rather know how to use this than re-implement comments any time I …

I’ve said before that I’m only a moderately experienced programmer.  One of the things I’m enjoying about learning Django is that it’s challenging me to pick up new concepts without getting bogged down in the details of implementation.
Yesterday I ran across decorators.  I had no idea what a decorator is, how it works, or what it’s used for.  Wikipedia offers an overview, which at least explains the general purpose, but then someone tells me that Python decorators are not the same thing.  The top Google results fly way over my head, and finally, I land on an …