Contributing to Django Documentation, Part 2: Submitting A Patch

Posted by: barbara | Date: Sep 13, 2011 | Category: django

Note: This is the second part of a two-part series. The first post is:

Contributing to Django Documentation, Part 1: Generating and Editing Documentation Locally

Whether or not you have a specific piece of documentation you'd like to add, the place to start is always the bug tracker.

Contributing to Django Documentation, Part 1: Generating and Editing Documentation Locally

Posted by: barbara | Date: Sep 12, 2011 | Category: django

I just returned from this year's DjangoCon, where there was a lot of buzz around two big topics: managing community and improving documentation.

To that end, I've decided that it's time to start contributing to the Django documentation - documentation, and helping people use it, is a thing about which ...

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Image resizing on file uploads. Doing it the easy way.

Posted by: barbara | Date: Jan 13, 2010 | Category: django python

Let me start with this proviso: Math is not my strong subject (okay, just stop right there with the Barbie jokes). I'll do just about anything to avoid writing complex equations. And most of the time, I don't have to. Most of the time, I can find alternative solutions, dependent ...

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Working with the Django admin and legacy databases, pt.3

Posted by: barbara | Date: May 01, 2009 | Category: django

Part 1 | Part 2

After you've run inspectdb and done all your syncing and basic admin setup, take a peek at the models you generated - depending on the state of your legacy db, you've probably wound up with something that looks like this (column names have ...

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Working with the Django admin and legacy databases, pt.2

Posted by: barbara | Date: Apr 26, 2009 | Category: django

By this time, I'm several weeks into the project and it's time to get you all caught up - let's see if I can break this down into digestable bites.

(Btw, don't expect it to you take this long - this isn't an officially sanctioned work project for me, so ...

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