When I started my latest fiction book, The Darkest Autumn, I wrote out the chapters as individual files. I did it in a text editor (Sublime) and saved the files to a git repo. The names of the files determined their order, chapters being named in this pattern:

the-darkest-autumn $ tree ...

In python 3.6 we saw the adoption of Literal String Interpolation, or as they are known more commonly, f-strings. At first I was hesitant because... well... we've got multiple string tools already available:

one, two = 1, 2
_format = '{},{}'.format(one, two)
_percent = '%s,%s' % (one, two)
_concatenation = str ...

When we started the Two Scoops of Django project back in 2012, I never thought it would become a book series. Well, it's turned into just that, and so I'm pleased to announce the "Early Release" or "BETA" release of the Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for ...

I'm often asked by new programmers how they can forge a path into using their skills professionally. Or how they can get better at writing software.

Recently I was writing code to interact with a third-party API. The API changes frequently, especially the data contained in responses. However, that data has to be saved and periodically needs to be audited. I wanted a data model flexible enough to handle these periodic changes without a lot of ...

What I mean by an "installable Django package": a reusable component that can be shared across Django projects, allowing us to combine our own efforts with others. Some examples include:

• django-test-plus
• django-crispy-forms
• dj-stripe
• dj-spam

Ever want to quickly create a similarly installable Django package to submit to PyPI and Django ...

Last week Audrey Roy Greenfeld and I had the privilege of teaching the US Air Force's 91st Cyberspace Operations Squadron the finer details of how to build, test, and deploy Django web applications.

It was a challenging, exciting experience for us as instructors. We've taught numerous Python and ...

Recently I've been writing a lot of Markdown. While not as sophisticated as ReStructuredText, it's simplicity is nice for accelerated writing. The problem is that I like to put section headings in titlecase.

What do I mean by titlecase?

go to the room

becomes:

Go to the Room ...

Unlike every other programming language I've used before, Python does not have a switch or case statement. To get around this fact, we use dictionary mapping:

def numbers_to_strings(argument):
    switcher = {
        0: "zero",
        1: "one",
        2: "two",
    }
    return switcher.get(argument, "nothing")

This code is analogous to:

function(argument){
    switch ...

Since the first Django Girls event I've watched the movement grow with a sense of of awe and inevitability. There is something about it that is both contagious and powerful, and in a very good way. This past weekend I had my first chance to attend one of their ...

Today I want to talk about lists. Not for shopping, not the programming data type, but the display of items in both unordered and ordered fashion.

Specifically this:

• Item A
• Item B
  1. First Numbered Inner Item
  2. Second Numbered Inner Item
• Item C

In other words, lists of bullets and numbers ...

I'm pleased to announce the "Early Release" of the Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.8 PDF ebook.

Co-authored with Audrey Roy Greenfeld, the 1.8 edition of Two Scoops of Django is filled to the brim with knowledge to help make Django projects better. We ...

Last year on April 1st I wrote how the next Two Scoops Press book would be about goblins. Naturally, many interpreted this as an April Fool's Day prank. Also naturally, I didn't agree or disagree with this interpretation of my blog post.

Image from blog post last year ...

It is time to upgrade Django Packages. If you are using the site's APIs in any way, this affects you.

This site, maintained by myself and Audrey Roy Greenfeld, is the directory of reusable apps, sites, and tools for Django-powered projects. And the site has been running on Django ...

These are my notes for getting LaTeX running on Mac OS X with the components and fonts I want. Which is handy when you want to generate PDFs from Sphinx. At some point I want to replace this with a Docker container similar https://github.com/blang/latex-docker, albeit with ...

I can never remember the syntax for writing decorators. I always have to look it up. Worse, I always have to remember where to look to find references. Hence the reason for this article. I'll never lose this reference: It's on my laptop and the internet.

Each type ...

On the Cookiecutter project, recently we added conda to the open source packaging systems we officially support (You can find Cookiecutter on PyPI, homebrew, and apparently some Linux distros).

This is my summary of my resolutions for 2014 and an early pass at my resolutions for 2015. I'm doing this right now instead of at the end of the year because as of the afternoon of December 21, I'm going off the grid.

Seasons greetings!

Before I begin, I want to make very clear that most of what I'm about to explain are 'tricks'. They aren't "best practices", and in at least one case, is possibly inadvisable.

Speaking of inadvisable practices, at some point I'll write a 'setup.py traps ...

I'm of the opinion that homemade pumpkin puree is better than what comes out of a can. Some people disagree with me, but I argue that the delicate, sensitive flavor of pumpkin is easy to overwhelm. Simply put, if you overload it with sugar and/or that mixture of ...

Sometimes in the clean(), clean_FOO or save() methods of a Django form, you need to have additional form instance attributes available. A sample case for this is having user_id available. This is a simple example of how to do it in Class-Based Views.

Assuming this form:

from django import forms ...

I'll be arriving in Argentina on August 14th. I'll be speaking at PyDay Mendoza on August 15th, and sprinting on August 16th on something Audrey and I named the "new library sprint" (more details to come). On August 22nd, I'll be speaking at the combined Buenos Aires ...

For various reasons I had to change some things about my Eventbrite test. The new version is listed here and the previous blog post has been updated:

104, 116, 116, 112, 115, 58, 47, 47, 103, 105, 115, 116, 46, 103, 105, 116, 104, 117,
98, 46, 99, 111, 109 ...

Join me, Andrew Godwin (South, Django migrations), Simon Willison (co-founder of Django, co-founder of Lanyrd), and many other talented people at Eventbrite. We have great challenges, the kind that inspire you to rise to the occasion. We need you to help us overcome them.

I should mention that Eventbrite is ...

These are the slides from the talk I gave today at the Wharton Web Conference.

In Python, the @cached_property decorator is a really nice piece of code. What it does is it caches the result of a property call. The cached result will persist as long as the instance does, so if the instance is passed around and the function subsequently invoked, the cached result ...

It seems like that for every few weeks I find myself needing to generate something out of a template while working outside a framework. For this task, my preferred solution is Jinja2. I've used Jinja2 to generate HTML, code, and text. If I were brave enough I would even ...

Writing reusable code is a good thing, right? The trick is to do so in a way that makes your life and those of others easier, but to do so in a very clear and maintainable way. Recently I've been playing around with Python's functools.partial function, which ...

note: This post has been updated for PyCon 2015. Even though the URL is old, the content is new.

New to Python and/or conferences and attending the upcoming PyCon 2015 in Montreal, Canada? Or is this your first conference? Or perhaps your first conference longer than a weekend?

Hoping ...

In two days, Friday, April 4th, I'm going into laparoscopic surgery in order to correct a double inguinal hernia. If you want to know what that is, you can read the Not Safe For Work (NSFW) Wikipedia article.

I said it.

I have a hernia.

That was hard.

It ...

While Audrey Roy Greenfeld and I were contemplating our next Two Scoops Press book topic, it came down to a decision between Pyramid, Flask, and mythical creatures. Inspired by Django's magical flying pony, Pyramid's scary alien dude, and even the idea of a magical Flask pouring out wonderful ...

A year ago today Malcolm Tredinnick, core contributor to Django suddenly passed away. He was a mentor, and more importantly, a good friend.

Here are some of my memories of Malcolm.

Early in my journeys with Python I struggled with understanding the purpose and use of lambda functions. When I finally understood them I was disappointed by their lack of docstrings. For that reason, and various other shortcomings, I went back to standard functions. Also, for what it's worth, I ...

I'm a published author.

There, I said it. I co-wrote a book and its sequel. My childhood dream of becoming a writer has come true.

Well, not completely.

Truth is, I've always wanted to be a fiction author. Don't get me wrong, writing a technical book has ...

We (Audrey Roy and I) just released the revised, expanded, and slightly renamed second edition of our book on Django. It's called Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.6, and you can buy it right now in print format on our online store or Amazon.com ...

In my previous blog post I covered using awesome-slugify to capture slugs in both ASCII and unicode. Today I'm covering the definition custom language slugify translation functions.

note: The introduction mentions Django and Plone. However, this is not an article about Django or Plone.

In my previous blog post I covered writing exception-based assertions and fixtures. Today I'm going to close things out by demonstrating how to change the behavior of pytest and how to integrate it with Django and setup.py.

In my previous blog post I covered test discovery and writing basic tests using pytest. Today I'm going to cover a few more features that I really enjoy: raises and fixtures.

When I first encountered Holger Krekel's pytest this summer on Jeff Knupp's blog I felt like I had been living under a rock for years. I've been using Python's unittest framework since 2006 and nose to find tests since 2008, but here was another test framework ...

In a small, private family ceremony on December 27th, 2013 I exchanged wedding vows with Audrey Roy.

It was an incredible day. I'll savor the moment we promised ourselves to each other in matrimony forever. She is the other half of my soul, and since we've become husband ...

Making New Year's Resolutions is something I do every year. It's important to me. I like to set goals and see how well I do.

Inspired by Alex Clark's meme, here is my own entry into this end-of-year fun.

I wanted to see if I could have an exception as a decorator argument. Here is what I came up with:

import functools

class MyGoof(Exception):
    pass

def pass_goof(exception):
    def decorator(test_func):
        @functools.wraps(test_func)
        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
            try:
                return test_func(*args, **kwargs)
            except exception as e:
                return ...

I've joined forces with Matt Harrison and Audrey Roy to put together the first ever Python Indie Bundle sale!

This bundle includes the following e-book bundles (PDF, Kindle, ePub) for just $24.95:

• Treading on Python Volume 1: Foundations
• Treading on Python Volume 2: Intermediate
• Two Scoops of Django ...

While you can optimize the heck out of your Python code with generators and generator expressions I'm more interested in goofing around and solving classic programming questions with the yield statement.

note: For this article, since it's easier to explain things as they happen, I'll be including ...

note: This is the first part in a series about a family research trip to Dynów, Poland in May 2013.

This was our second trip to Poland. Last year (2012) I went with Audrey in 2012 for a few days to present at a software conference called PyCon Poland. We ...

Yesterday, Jeff Knupp wrote an amazing how-to article called "Open Sourcing a Python Project the Right Way". While I was reading it, I was rather pleased by just how close it is to my own practices. Considering Jeff's amazing Writing Idiomatic Python, it meant I was on the right ...

It's a given that in order to travel you need to have money or make a lot of money, right?

That's not really true.

There are ways to live well but cheaply. It takes a bit of discipline, forethought, and judgement, but the reward of living is amazing ...

Years ago my good friend Miguel Araujo and I presented on Advanced Django Form Usage. Slide 18 of that talk mentioned some made up statistics. Here they are for reference:

• 91% of Django projects use ModelForms.
• 80% ModelForms require trivial logic.
• 20% ModelForms require complex logic.

In Chapter 10 of ...

This is the first in a set of blog posts based on my experiences traveling in various places around the world. This particular safety-related post is about theft, not scams, which I may cover in another article.

For this first article, I'm hoping this gets on various technical RSS ...

The following are my notes, observations, and resources on the subject of working with Python 3 (with or without Django).

Recently I've become involved in a couple of Django efforts that used Python 3.3. The quick summary of what I learned is pretty much what I expected: Out ...

We (myself and Audrey Roy) have been asked to fill in a tutorial session at EuroPython 2013 on the afternoon July 3rd! Therefore, it is my honor to announce our EuroPython Intro to Django Workshop! (see the bottom of this article for registration instructions)

In my opinion, the concepts behind Django's model forms can be listed in just six (6) bullets. The bullets I've marked in bold at the top are the topic of this blog post, while the two of these that were covered in a previous blog post on Django ...

In the summer of 2010 Frank Wiles of Revsys exposed me to what I later called the "Easy Form Views" pattern when creating Django form function views. I used this technique in a variety of places, including Django Packages and the documentation for django-uni-form (which is rebooted as django-crispy-forms). At ...

Because of the ubiquitousness of reStructuredText in the lives of Python developers and the advocacy of it, it's not uncommon for people to assume we used it to write our book. However, that's not really the case.

The short answer is we used:

• reStructuredText (RST)
• Google Documents
• Apple ...

I've heard good things about filepicker.io, which is a service that makes file uploading a much better experience. Unfortunately, the Django package for filepicker.io doesn't work with South. When I try to create a migration using the filepicker.io field using code like the following...

# products ...

I feel like I'm dreaming, but we're on our way to Europe!

A few weeks Audrey and I decided to move. While looking at possible rentals or even mortgages, we were idly (dreaming really... still paying off debts incurred from last year) looking at how much a room ...

Since I was a child I wanted to be a published author. I've dreamt of people reading my book. While one could say that dream was fulfilled when we launched the e-book version in January, it's not the same as seeing the printed copy. Today I got to ...

With the help of fellow Python developer Matt Harrison's excellent Ebook Formatting: KF8, Mobi & EPUB, we managed to create pretty decent looking Kindle and ePub versions of Two Scoops of Django.

One of many things we did was focus on providing an excellent table of contents. Of course we ...

An oldie, but a goodie. This time I annotate it with reasons as to why things are used so much. If you blog, post your own!

For reference, anything after a "#" is an annotation.

$ history | awk '{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}'|sort -rn |head ...

Ever wonder why Python's str or unicode types lack obvious length methods? Yes, we can get the length via the special __len__() method, but instead as Python developers we get the so-called 'luxury' of discovering length via the Python's built-in len() function. So instead of calling the length ...

In my opinion, the concepts behind Django's non-model forms can be listed in just three (3) bullets:

• Forms render HTML.
• Forms are "just" Python constructs.
• Forms validate dictionaries (Python's Key/Value structure).

Let's dig in!

# myapp/forms.py ...

One of the patterns we get positive feedback for mentioning in our book is overloading form fields.

The problem this pattern handles is the use case of when we have a model with a field(s) that allows for blank values, how do we force users to enter values?

For ...

This is Part III in a series of blog posts about PyCon US 2013. The goal is to provide a handy reference guide for first time attendees of the world's largest Python conference. Part I was mostly about tutorials, Part II was mostly about the first day of talks ...

In January Audrey Roy and I launched a book about Django called Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.5. We decided to not use PayPal. Here's why:

After thirty four days of hard work, Audrey Roy and I are proud to announce that we've released the beta of Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.5. It's been a monumental effort, a labor of love, and we hope you find our efforts worthy ...

This is Part II in a series of blog posts about PyCon US 2013. The goal is to provide a handy reference guide for first time attendees of the world's largest Python conference. Part I was mostly about tutorials, this post will be about registration and the first day ...

New to Python and thinking about going to the upcoming PyCon US for the first time? You know, that big Python conference taking place near San Francisco in March?

Or perhaps you signed up already and are getting worried about being overwhelmed by hundreds of tutorials, talks, and activities?

No ...

The launch of the Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.5 book has gone pretty well. The response has been almost entirely positive and sales have been pretty brisk. We've gotten a ton of great, constructive editorial feedback, which we're sorting through as we race ...

We (Audrey Roy and I) wrote a book on Django! It's called Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.5, and you can buy it right now in e-book (PDF) form on the website: http://django.2scoops.org.

Django, like any framework, has tips, tricks, and pitfalls ...

I'm one of those people who not only likes to make New Year's Resolutions, I like to blog about them.

Tarek Ziade has a habit of ending the year with a Python-themed meme. I've matched his meme the times he previousstarted it, and as you can tell from the title of this blog post I'm matching him yet again.

This blog post got started with a tweet.

That tweet got retweeted a lot by developers. And system administrators. And database administrators. And any creative type.

As of December 7th, 2012, it had been retweeted over 500 times, a personal best. Obviously I struck a chord that resonated with a ...

One virtue of Django Class Based Views (CBVs) is that they come with pretty good default settings. The virtue of this is you can really pare your code down in size and complexity.

For example, here is an implementation of CBVs based on a straight-forward Django model , stuffage.models.Stuff ...

I'll admit it, I love a good rant. I respect those who can give rants well. I would list the ones I really like, but I'm not sure I want to deal with the arguments that would follow. ;-)

Of course, as much as I like to read or ...

Backstory: On Saturday, November 17, 2012 Audrey Roy and I decided to participate in the Petcentric hackathon, a Los Angeles area Pet-themed product/coding contest held at Amplify. We arrived a bit late, but armed with Audrey's idea of creating a pet based reference sheet for owners, pet sitters ...

Today I decided to use the Django class based view (CBV) CreateView, but I wanted to avoid duplications and submit to the view from the front page of a site. The reason was I needed a simple newsletter signup form. This is what I cooked up and should work for ...

Yet again, myself, Audrey Roy, and a small but elite cadre of volunteers are feverishly at work putting together another Los Angeles open source event. Our last effort went smashingly well, and like any good engineer, we're ready to scale up - this time to 150 attendees!

LA Open Source ...

The PyCon US 2013 call for papers (CFP) ends tomorrow, September 28th, 2012. We need more talk and tutorial submissions. Talks are 30 or 45 minute efforts in front of the PyCon audience and are recorded for posterity. Tutorials are three hours long and are given to attendees who have ...

Pycairo is the binding for the cairo graphics library. It's also not something you can get running with a simple pip install py2cairo. After many hours of working the search engines and dancing to the configure/make/make install melody, I figured out an answer that worked for me ...

I'm an open source developer. I use Python, Django, PostgreSQL, JQuery, MongoDB, Memcached, and Redis. I push production code to Linux servers.

And yet:

• My laptop runs Apple's Mac OS X.
• My primary editor is Sublime Text.
• My production servers are provided mostly by Heroku.
• All my sites ...

A long time ago, circa 1999, when I was working in a certain procedural language I found a library that added objects to the language. It did so by playing interesting tricks with key/value structures, which in Python are called dictionaries. In 2005, as a new Python user, I ...

Hi, I'm Daniel Greenfeld. You might know me from my blog. I'm here to talk to you about a very import subject: Submitting your talk early to PyCon US.

Last year there were hundreds of talks were submitted for just a very few speaking slots. Unpaid volunteers labored ...

This morning, Jesse Noller, the chair of PyCon US, suggested a meme, "PyCon 2013 talks/tutorials I'd like to see". Here is my meme submission:

One of the things I noticed a long time ago with JavaScript is that when you create objects you can define keys outside of strings:

> var o = {city: "San Francisco"}
  Object

In JavaScript, this is valid. In Python, you'll get a NameError:

>>> o = {city: "San Francisco"}
Traceback (most recent ...

A little over three months ago I blogged about my preferred requirements list. It's now nearly the eve of Django Dash, and I feel it's time to update the list. I'm going to bump the versions on some of the existing packages and add some new ones ...

I'm terribly proud of what was accomplished last night: A car-sized robot weighing a whopping 8,580 pounds (3,893 kg) was landed on Mars. It is packed with scientific packages that will expand our knowledge of Mars, and has the power to use them for at least 14 ...

For 2012, DjangoCon US has moved to Washington, DC, and everyone is invited! If you need financial support to get there, the Django Software Foundation and PyLadies have paired with a number of forward thinking sponsors to help get you there. All genders are eligible for assistance, so don't ...

Having too many custom exceptions on a project can be a pain, but a few choices ones are really nice. The problem is that in complex libraries having to import both functions and exceptions becomes a drag. To mitigate having to remember to import custom exceptions, this is a handy ...

Today I wanted to use the Django Class Based View (CBV) UpdateView but without a slug identifier in the URL. For example, instead of /profiles/pydanny/ I would go to /my-crazy-profile/. Also, I needed to force authentication.

I've done this with Django functional views a few times times, but ...

On July 15th, 2012, at the July LA Hackathons Open Source event, over 60 Python, Django, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, PHP, JavaScript, Node.js, Perl, and Clojure developers arrived to work on a variety of projects. We went from 10 AM to 10 PM, and there was much coding and ...

I have a client who wanted their entire unlaunched public content site quickly but temporarily blocked for a short period of time. He wanted a universal password so he could send the site to reviewers, done quickly, and nothing else. In a few days the site will launch, and even ...

The second day of PyCon Philippines 2012 had a really good turnout. My unofficial estimate is that we had about 90% of the attendees from the first day attend (with the unfortunate exception of most of the faculty and students of Agoo Computer College).

The day started with...

PyCon Philippines 2012 (PyCon PH) happened just this past weekend at the University of the Philippines Diliman (UP Diliman) campus in Quezon City, which is part of Metro Manila.

I can assure you that PyCon PH was an wonderful, amazing, humbling experience. I'm hoping that this post and others ...

PyCon Philippines 2012, set to occur on June 30 and July 1, is the first Python programming conference held in the Philippines. PyCon is a volunteer run effort that brings together Python developers from a variety of backgrounds and skill levels into a friendly, cooperative environment in order to educate ...

Yesterday I showed how to implement a simple email form for Django using Class Based Views. Today I'm going to extend yesterday's work to use the excellent RECAPTCHA service to help reduce spam content.

This version requires pip installing the following into your virtualenv.

• pip install django-crispy-forms so ...

Here's a simple FormView Class Based Views for Django. Here is a sample of how to do one as a simple email form. There is no CAPTCHA in this example, that's the topic of a future blog post.

This version requires the following packages pip installed into your ...

On May 12th, 2012, over 50 Python, C++, Ruby, PHP, JavaScript, and Node.js developers arrived to code on a variety of projects. It was awesome! Tons of open source projects saw contributions, and people across languages and frameworks worked together.

You should go to DjangoCon Europe in lovely Zurich, Switzerland. Here are 10 reasons why:

I've been very happy with Pelican as a blog engine so far, and haven't even moved off the sample theme. There's just been one problem: Myself and others have had a lot of trouble reading the code snippets.

I didn't have time to cook up a ...

First off, out of the box, Django lets you construct API responses with a little work. All you need to do is something like this:

# Copied from https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/topics/class-based-views/#more-than-just-html
from django import http
from django.utils import simplejson as json

class JSONResponseMixin ...

Today I'm starting a new project. I'm working as fast as I can and hope to launch on Friday. What are my package dependencies?

This is a day long coding event in Los Angeles for Open Source developers of all languages and skill levels to come and code like fiends. They'll be joined by dozens of either really smart coders or nice people like me. Sponsors are providing food, drinks, venue, and more ...

This year in June, the European edition of DjangoCon is going to be held in lovely Zurich, Switzerland. It is my great fortune and delight to announce that Audrey and I will be attending. Hooray!

Needless to say, we're extremely excited. My trip to Europe in 2007 was an ...

On October 16th, 2011, which was one hundred and sixty-four days before I published this post, I resolved to get myself onto the Longest Streak list of Calendar About Nothing. Today, with this blog post, I've managed to do just that - get on the Longest Streaks.

Calendar About Nothing ...

A few months ago me and my fiancee, Audrey Roy, launched our start up, Consumer Notebook. It's a Python powered product comparison site that combines the best features of Open Comparison, Yelp, Consumer Reports, and Pinterest. We've worked day and night to make it better, with countless members ...

This is one of those challenging posts to write. The people whose projects I'm going to describe have put in a lot of dedicated, hard work to overcome a challenging subject. Writing an OAuth consumer is a hard problem and writing an OAuth provider is an even harder problem ...

In mid-November me and my fiancee, Audrey Roy began our startup. We had been frustrated with trying to do on-line product research and came up with an idea to take the lessons learned from Django Packages / Open Comparison and apply them to a commercial effort. The result has been Consumer ...

I had been meaning to do this for some time, and even had a nascent page for it on this site already. I just noticed my old friend Jessica Hammer was featured on usesthis.com. Then I remembered Kenneth Reitz blogged about his tools not that long ago. Looks like ...

In June of 2011 I had the good fortune of having my then girlfriend, Audrey Roy, now fiancee, invited to present a keynote speech at PyCon Australia 2011.

I was terribly excited for her to get that invitation, and that excitement was compounded when they allowed me to present on ...

Here I was thinking that this year's PyCon wasn't going to be so busy because I didn't submit a talk or tutorial. Ha! What the heck was I thinking?

Here's what I've already got in the works.

Me and Audrey have been working hard on Consumer Notebook, a Python/Django based project. We submitted it to PyCon StartUp row and found out this morning we've been accepted. Hooray!

From the PyCon StartUp Row winner's post, here is a little bit of what we're about ...

Rather than hard-code the configuration into a Python based settings file, when using a PaaS such as Heroku you want to pick up the MongoDB URI from the system settings. Here's what I do:

# get the dynamic elements from the MongoURI
import os
import re
r = r'^mongodb\:\/\/(?P ...

I started on django-uni-form in January 2009. In order to use Pinax on an internal social network for NASA HQ, we had to render all content, including forms, Section 508 compliant. Rather than rewrite the html for all 50+ forms that existed in the Pinax 0.5.x framework at ...

The PyCon tutorial on Django in Depth was ending. I had been sitting next to my friend Barbara and we got up to go when I heard a feminine voice ask: "Are you bshaurette?" I turned and it was like I got punched in the gut.

It was the first ...

What I did to get it running:

pip install pelican
git clone git://github.com/pydanny/pydanny.github.com.git

My settings.py file:

AUTHOR = 'Daniel Greenfeld'
DISQUS_SITENAME = 'pydanny'
GITHUB_URL = 'https://github.com/pydanny'
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS='UA-18066389-2'
SITEURL = 'https://pydanny.github.com'
SITENAME = 'pydanny'
SOCIAL = (('twitter', 'http://twitter.com/pydanny'),
          ('github ...