Category Archives: django

What’s up with so many languages? E.g. in Switzerland there are four official languages, and in Norway there are two: bokmål and nynorsk (details). I’ll be describing what I had to do to get a good user experience with these … Continue reading →

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 →

(This is rapidly getting outdated, go read the source at http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/trunk/django/newforms for the current state…). Django is getting new form handling code, currently in the module django.newforms but it will migrate to django.forms in a future release. The code is … Continue reading →

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 →