Category Archives: programacion

Django 1.0 Template Development

Posted on August 17, 2009 by Jj

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 →

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So it has a snake inside doing all the magic!

Posted on August 2, 2009 by Jj

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

Posted on July 20, 2009 by Jj

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 →

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New Open-selector version

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Jj

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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Using object_list generic view for pagination in Django

Posted on January 7, 2009 by Jj

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 →

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Open-selector first talk

Posted on November 26, 2008 by Jj

This is the first time I ever mentioned Open-selector to the public (In spanish). Open Selector – Barcamp Lima from UniversidadPeru on Vimeo. Here is the presentation I used for presenting Open-selector. This was part of BarcampLima in November 2008, … Continue reading →

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Access MEDIA_URL from static Javascript files in Django

Posted on November 21, 2008 by Jj

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 →

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Django cheap pages

Posted on November 14, 2008 by Jj

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 →

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Mi charla de Introducción a Django

Posted on October 29, 2008 by Jj

El fin de semana pasado tuve la oportunidad de dar nuevamente una charla de Django en el evento OpenSource Day de la Universidad San Martín de Porres. Aquí están mis diapositivas de Introducción a Django, y aquí el código de … Continue reading →

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Banca por Internet de Interbank y Firefox

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Jj

Desde que tengo que usar la banca interactiva de Intarbank he visto muchísimas personas que han tenido el mismo problema que yo inicialmente tuve… No funciona con Firefox . Afortunadamente pude darme cuenta de donde radica el problema y desde … Continue reading →

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