By : Shabda Raaj

We have updated the Django popular stories widget, which powers the widget in the side bar. It is now on Github.

Earlier the code used was hardcoded to only find Django stories, but now you can create arbitary topics from admin.

Get the code and create the widgets on your servers, (or let us know, and we will create it here if it is interesting). We created three we want to track. Databases, Python and Javascript

Databases

Python

Javascript

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By : lakshman

What is bpython?

bpython is a fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Unix-like operating system.

says the bpython home page. It provides syntax highlighting, auto completion, auto-indentation and such stuff.

Unlike iPython, which implements then entire shell functions and emulates the standard python shell, and adds enhancements, bpython just adds features on top of the existing python shell functionality, using the curses module.

The "killer feature" of bpython is, as you can see from the image above, the IDE like prompting of the function parameters and the doc string of the function dynamically. I have always thought, what IntellijIDEA ...

By : lakshman

There are technology conferences, and then there are gatherings of passionate technology enthusiasts. You will most likely not know what I am talking about, unless you saw that someone wrote a software for controlling a toy-car, using it's blue tooth module, from an Nokia phone, at the event. You will most likely not know what I am talking about, unless you were at Nimhans Convention center at Bangalore between 1st to 5th December 2009.

Foss.in had its beginnings 10 years ago, as linux bangalore, whose objective was the popularize free and open source software to local Indians. From ...

By : Shabda Raaj

Foss.in is without doubt India's largest FOSS technology conference. Lakshman gave a talk today on "Python metaclasses and how Django uses them". Here are the slides from that talk.

[Edit] Some reactions,
http://twitter.com/jaideep2588/status/6295483833
http://twitter.com/kunalbharati/status/6296572939

And the talk images, http://twitpic.com/rxhn7

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By : Shabda Raaj

A quick django quiz. Answers available tomorrow. Get it as a text file (django-quiz) or on google docs or read below.

### Easy

1. You have a class defined as

    class Post(models.Model):
        name = models.CharField(max_length=100)
        is_active = models.BooleanField(default=False)

You create multiple objects of this type. If you do
Post.objects.get(is_active=False),

what exceptions is raised?

a. MultipleObjectsReturned
b. ManyObjectsReturned
c. SyntaxError
d. MultipleModelReturned
e. ManyModelReturned

2. Where is the function render_to_response defined?

a. django.views
b. django.shortcuts
c. django.templates
d. django.contrib.templates
e. django.contrib.shortcuts

3. What is the ...