Once again I received a review-copy of a book from Packt, for which I'm again really grateful :-) This time it was Django 1.2 E-Commerce by Jesse Legg. The book tries to introduce you in a tutorial style to how to write a simple e-commerce store using Django core components and some selected 3rd-party reusable apps.
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Django 1.2 E-Commerce
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Djangocon.eu - Day 3
To get the usual recap from last night out of the way: Last night was no organized social event, so social drinking games and no way too motivated people dancing. Instead it was an evening full of small groups exploring the city on a quest to find some beer and some food. Armin, Arne, Arthur, some guy who isn't on Twitter and me went down Warschauer Straße and found some nice (I guess) Spanish restaurant called Cayetano with some comfy tables outdoors. I'm always amazed how much a mess Nachos with cheese and chicken can become when I'm near them.
So, now that this is out of the way, let's get to what happened at Djangocon.eu on day 3.
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International documentation for Django - An idea
International documentation has always been on of those ponies for Django that might help bring in more people but never got fed enough oat to develop all the magical powers. So far most international usergroups (on a national or language level) have some sort of translation for the documentation. Sadly all these efforts never really produced a complete translation. So perhaps we need a new approach.
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Djangocon.eu - Day 2
Day two ... that means we all survived the evening of day one at Clärchens Ballhaus. As the name indicates, this is not your typical bar or restaurant but actually a dance hall with room for more than 100 people at tables and enough room for those who also want to dance. A big thank you, again, to Jesper and Bitbucket for sponsoring the drinks.
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Djangocon.eu - Day 1
So today was day 1 of this year's Djangocon.eu in Berlin. After surviving last nights pre-show beer-up at the Schleusenkrug getting a seat in the local metro was easier than expected. I guess, on a holiday early in the morning not all that many people are ready to leave their comfy beds. The downside is that you can't really ask anyone for the way, but luckily I ran into jezdez and BartTC.
The venue is just fantastic with two large video walls, comfortable chairs and power plugs for everyone. It's kind of well hidden, though, so without Jannis and Martin I probably wouldn't have found it within 20 minutes (thank you, telcos, for your stupid roaming contracts btw.). Part of being a great venue is also that the beamer walls are high enough that if you have some > 1.6m sitting in front of you, you can still see the slides.
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Django Release Day
The big day has finally come: Django 1.2 was released to the web and we can finally use MultiDB, the messaging framework, improved i10n support and much more with something labeled as stable :D Big kudos to all the developers and everyone contributing to this release. There is so much great stuff in there that I can't wait to finally start a new project where I can use it all.
Besides this big one there is also a new bug fix release for 1.1: 1.1.2. Included are fixes for testrunner, cookie encoding and a backport of the "csrf_token" template tag from 1.2.
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Wir fahren nach Berlin!
Primary link: www.djangocon.eu
Well, it's sad that the DFB didn't
offer to move their Pokalfinale up for
2 weeks to become part of DjangoCon's side events but
even without that, the last week of May (May 24th to 28th) will be full of
excitement, fun, and ponies :D
Last year's EuroDjangoCon took place in Prague and was probably my No. 2 conference of all time (nothing can beat PyCon UK'08 ;-)). I learnt so much there, met so many great people and had so much fun that it should really be hard to top. That said, I have a lot of confidence that the team in Berlin will reach at least that level of greatness with people like Stephan Jaekel, Jannis Leidel and Florian Schlachter and many more behind the wheels and a venue in the heart of the German capital.
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Blogging with a DVCS
About 3 weeks ago I wrote about Open Blogging, blogging with a DVCS hosted on a community server as backend. Well, I also wrote that I would really love to have something similar for my own site. Somehow the idea stuck and this morning I finally flipped the switch.
The approach I took is probably a bit of a brain-f*ck but hopefully at least a bit interesting to those of you who want to have a blog out of a DVCS like Git :-)
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Django 1.2a1 has a message for you
Today, Django 1.2 alpha1 was released and it comes with a ton of new features compared to the 1.1 branch. You can read up about them in the release notes but I want to take a quick look at probably my favorite addition: The new messaging framework. Why this and not the support for multiple databases? Well, I see myself using messaging in many more places than multiple databases ;-)
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MongoDB & Stuff
For quite some time I wanted to write something with a document-based database system again. My last trip into this area was in Feb. 2009 when I needed a small feed-aggregator for a local Barcamp and wanted to provide a live-ticker for all the tweets and photos related to that event. Back then I went with CouchDB with its slick web interface and HTTP API, but it is by far not the only attractive system on the block.
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