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Django :: making a date dropdown field

Posted on November 8, 2006 by admin

It seems like it is hard to input valid dates in a free-form text format for a significant portion of users. Personally, I don’t like many of the popup calendar widgets since they usually rely on Javascript for rendering — … Continue reading →

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Python :: defprop – a very simple idiom for defining properties

Posted on November 5, 2006 by admin

Most attempts at making it easier to define properties in Python seem to quickly descend into metaclass obscurity. Metaclasses can surely solve the problem for an appropriate definition of solve, but “Explicit is better than implicit”, and “Simple is better … Continue reading →

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Django :: Custom Field

Posted on October 30, 2006 by admin

If you don’t do so allready, you should really get into the habit of looking at the validation errors your users are seeing. If you’re using the idiomatic Django view code this is very easy to do. After you get … Continue reading →

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Django :: setup for the form examples

Posted on October 23, 2006 by admin

I normally develop on Windows and deploy on Linux which has so far worked without a single problem. On my development system I followed the effbot receipe to get Django up and running in five minutes. That receipe was written … Continue reading →

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