By : Shabda Raaj

Django abstracts most of the actions you would be doing with the Database. What it doesn't abstracts, and doesn't try to abstract is the Database modelling part. This is a quick tutorial describing to how model your data in Django models.py, and how to access and modify them.

Consider a hypothetical HR department, which wants you to build an application to track and manage their processes. They have employees who work for a department, contractors who work for multiple department. Let's see how you you would do that in Django.

from django.db import models

class ...

By : Shabda Raaj

Summary: How to integrate a non Django database system in your Django code, using Wordpress as example. The completed code is available at github or you can see some screnshots

Though there are quite a few good Django blog applications, our blog is based on Wordpress. A number of plugin's make moving to a Django based app a bad decision for us, and not in the spirit of "best tools for the job".

We moved the other way, and decided to use Django to admin the Wordpress database. The completed code is available on Github

It is not too ...

By : Shabda Raaj

Forms are one of the best features of Django. (After models, admin, url routing etc :) ). Here is a quick tutorial describing how to do things with Django forms.

1. Basic form

Prob. You want to show a form, validate it and display it.

Ans. Create a simple form.

class UserForm(forms.Form):
    username = forms.CharField()
    joined_on = forms.DateField()

This wil take care that the form is displayed with two text field, and a value for them are filled in, and the second field has correct formatting for a date.

2.

Prob. Create a form which has values populated depending upon a ...

By : Shabda Raaj

There are some tools and apps which we use with almost all apps we write, and in particular which, we used for dinette. Here they are broken into useful during development, and (also) useful post development.

During Development

1. Ipython and ipdb
2. South
3. Django test utils
4. Django extensions
5. Django debug toolbar

Ipython and ipdb

Ipython is a enhanced shell for python. Ipdb similarly add extra capacity to the builtin pdb debugger. It is extremely convenient to drop into a ipython shell right where a complex piece of code is being hit.

from IPython.Shell import IPShellEmbed
ipython = IPShellEmbed()
ipython()

Of course ...

By : Shabda Raaj

twitter ready version:

We have released a Django forum application, with some cool features not in any other Django based forum. You can get it here or see it in action.

blog version

There are quite a few Django based forum applications, so why another? Its a bit of a rhetorical question, as the answer is "none of them met my needs exactly, so we created my own", as you might expect.

Without further ado here is a list of features. It is available on uswaretech.com/forum/.

• Based on, inspired by and ripped from PunBB. (Thanks!)
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