June 4, 2014 » Markus Holtermann » [Archived Version]
About a month ago, I attended DjangoCon Europe on the Île des Embiez, a small island between Toulon and Marseille. After an incredible circus edition 2013 in Warsaw, this year’s organizers stepped up to the plate to host another amazing conference.
Read MoreJune 4, 2014 » Markus Holtermann » [Archived Version]
About a month ago, I attended DjangoCon Europe on the Île des Embiez, a small island between Toulon and Marseille. After an incredible circus edition 2013 in Warsaw, this year’s organizers stepped up to the plate to host another amazing conference.
Read MoreApril 11, 2014 » /var/ - django » [Archived Version]
An implementation & discussion of generic FormViews for acting on model instances
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Creating dynamic (user generated) forms in django
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An implementation & discussion of authority data for Django
Read MoreSept. 30, 2013 » Markus Holtermann » [Archived Version]
Djangodash is a coding contest where teams have 48 hours time to start and sprint a project. We worked on a website to host cookiecutter projects.
Read MoreSept. 30, 2013 » Markus Holtermann » [Archived Version]
Djangodash is a coding contest where teams have 48 hours time to start and sprint a project. We worked on a website to host cookiecutter projects.
Read MoreMay 23, 2013 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
Getting new features into Django isn’t easy. It’s that way for a reason — I spoke recently about why conservatism is a virtue — but it does happen. I’d like to do a better job explaining how we decide what goes in and what goes out, so here’s a lightly adapted version of something I posted on the mailing list this evening. It’s three things I look for when I’m trying to determine whether something is “right” for Django or not:
Read MoreMarch 5, 2012 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
In 2007, and again in 2009, I made an attempt to measure the size of the Django community. By popular request — okay, a couple people asked for it, whatever — let’s do this thing again. Users In 2007 and 2009, I shared three ways of looking at how many people are using Django: hits to the website, downloads of the Django tarball, and sites listed as “using Django.” So, here’s an overview of users, some notes on interpreting these numbers follow:
Read MoreJune 28, 2011 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
Here’s a thought that’s been rummaging around in my brain for some time now: is there a market for commercial, closed-source Django apps? Suppose someone released a high-quality, well-documented, well-supported Django app… under a commercial license. Assume of course that this app does something you actually need, and that the commercial license isn’t odious. Would you pay for a Django app? I think I would. I have no qualms about paying for good software: in the last month I bought some backup …
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