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Category Archives: programacion
Learning jQuery 1.3
Right after finishing my review on the Django template development book I got contacted again by the Packt folks to do the same for the Learning jQuery 1.3 book. I was most pleased with the request. Now, this book has … Continue reading
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Tagged book, javascript, review
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Generating Javascript Widgets with reversed URL endpoints in Django
I just read Elf Stenberg’s solution on how to serve static Javascript with reversed URLs in Django, I was going to leave this as a comment but I better explain it here When developing Django Widgets that require Javascript interaction … Continue reading
Django 1.0 Template Development
Last month I got an email from Packt telling me about their latest book on Django Template development. I was invited to give it a read and see how I liked it. Now, I’m a lazy and slow reader. But … Continue reading
So it has a snake inside doing all the magic!
Great drawing used by the Nebula team at Nasa to show proudly that they use Django for their development.
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New Open selector version
This last week I fonally found some time to improve two important features I missed in Open-selector The first thing I hated was havign to make so many HTTP requests to fetch the provider icons, so now Open-selector makes use … Continue reading
Posted in en, geek, javascript, open-selector, openid, programacion, tech
Tagged identity, open-selector, openid
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New Open-selector version
This shall be called Version 0.2 . The cool feature of this is the inline mode, it will be useful to have an OpenID login box in topbars, inline menus or heading sections (they are all the same I think), … Continue reading
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Tagged javascript, open-selector, openid
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Using object_list generic view for pagination in Django
Whenever I want to display a list of items I’ll need pagination, calculate first page, next page, total pages, current page, previous page, etc. Although Django comes with pretty good pagination helpers, I’ve found that using the list_detail.object_list generic view … Continue reading
Access MEDIA_URL from static Javascript files in Django
This is an old trick, that’s been very handy . Many times for various reasons you’ll need to access your media files from your Javascript files, to display images, change paths, or whatever. And in most cases your development MEDIA_URL … Continue reading
Django cheap pages
Sometimes I end up using Django for the wrong thing, just to dispatch pages and put all my content in the templates. Flatpages are too flat and other DB based content tools are too complex. I just want to use … Continue reading