Django on Windows

Between now and the Mac being returned, and a new laptop arriving (there’s a Dell with a good reputation for dual-booting on Ubuntu), I decided to have a go at seeing if I could get Django installed on Windows.
So, I’ve followed some of this, while I keep going through the jolly good Django Book. I’ve […]

Open Source Development Tools on Leopard

Something I should add from an earlier post is about using the latest version of OSX, Leopard.
This isn’t a criticism of Leopard in any way, but I have noticed that some of the open source tools aren’t playing too nice with it. Installing the Python/MySQL library meant editing some source code using some tips on […]

100 minutes with Django

A few weeks ago, I sat down and spent about 75 minutes watching a video presentation about Django by Jacob-Kaplan Moss. In case you don’t click the link, it’s a Google TechTalks presentation called "django: Web Development for Perfectionists with Deadlines". There’s a moment in the presentation where Jacob describes it as (I recall) "stupidly […]