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Re: Google Summer of Code application

Jannis Leidel — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:03:00 -0000

Hi Jason, thanks for your comment.. didn't see it till now.
Have a look at my current article, I think it describes some of my ideas.

I currently plan to use setuptools since it brings the egg package format and will be in stdlib in python2.6.

Re: Update: Call for ideas

Jannis Leidel — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 11:40:00 -0000

djangoapps.com is not available and the owner wants 10.000$ for it, jeesh.

Re: Update: Call for ideas

Jannis Leidel — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:08:00 -0000

Yeah, I think http://djangoproject.com/apps/ makes sense because the package function will be included (hopefully) in Django itself and should not be seen as a standalone page like http://djangosnippets.org or http://djangosites.org. This issue needs to be adressed on django-developers, though.

Re: The Django admin interface optimized for iPhone/iPod touch

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:09:00 -0000

Well, as you certainly know, the monthly fees for T-Mobile's iPhone contracts in Germany are ridiculous. Until they lower the prices I'm just using the iPod touch for administration. Which of course limits the use of all this :(

Re: The Django admin interface optimized for iPhone/iPod touch

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 13:29:00 -0000

Wilson, thank you very much. Please don't hesitate to report bugs or interface glitches.

Re: Using Django with setuptools

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 22 Nov 2007 17:42:00 -0000

Thanks Jonathan! It's fixed now..

Re: Using Django with setuptools

Jannis Leidel — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 05:45:00 -0000

Thanks Phillip!

Django has its own function to determine the current SVN version (django.get_version). It takes a Django version string like (0, 97, 'pre') and returns something like u'0.97-pre-SVN-6708', which is unfortunately wrong, since it gives the last revision number of the whole SVN repository including branches and tag, not only from the trunk.

You are right, I forgot to change the version string to just including the pure version number (like 0.97) and let setuptools handle the rest. My setup.py file and the required keywords for setup.cfg are now modified. Thanks again!

Re: Using Django with setuptools

Jannis Leidel — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 07:27:00 -0000

I didn't know that setuptools works in this way. So, it should be feasible to provide a setup.py file which elegantly falls back to distutils if setuptools can't be imported.

The only delicate issue is the package data, though distuils *has* support for "package_data" in 2.4, it's not Django's minimal Python version support 2.3.

So the only solution is the "data_files" keyword, automatically filled like in the current http://code.djangoproject.com/browser/django/tr... and a "try: import except: ImportError"-switch, right?

Re: Using Django with setuptools

Jannis Leidel — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 08:38:00 -0000

Yeah, it checks for the svn revision in get_svn_revision() (egg_info.py in setuptools). This is unfortunate and should be replaced by a pluggable interface. Could you please try setuptools-git?
I guess the actual version string parser of setuptools needs increasing revision numbers, but don't know enough about git's internals. Did you make a clone of the Django repo with git-svn? Maby the "find-rev" command of git-svn could be used for this?

Re: Using Django with setuptools

Jannis Leidel — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:15:00 -0000

Wow, this is great stuff. This should definitely be applicable to bzr and all the other versioning system with svn support.

Re: Django meetup at 24C3

Jannis Leidel — Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:09:00 -0000

I guess most of the people will be at the congress on saturday anyway, so why not meeting again :)

Re: Django meetup at 24C3

Jannis Leidel — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 13:04:00 -0000

Now, ground floor, right next to the GIMP logo. Django sticker on white Macbook :)

Re: Django meetup at 24C3

Jannis Leidel — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 19:29:00 -0000

Looks like I will be at 24C3 the rest of the weekend. Sorry for posting so late, the wifi was unusable most of the day :O

Re: django-mobileadmin 0.2

Jannis Leidel — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 11:18:00 -0000

Hi Juan,

Yes it does require to have the latest developer version (aka "subversion trunk"), sorry for your hassle. I suppose you want to run the Django with django-mobileadmin directly on the iPhone/iTouch -- just make a subversion checkout on your computer and transfer the resulting django directory to you Python site-packages directory on your mobile device.

Though I haven't tested it you might be successful using the following plist file: com.djangoproject.django.plist

Re: Django T-Shirts and more

Jannis Leidel — Mon, 21 Jan 2008 04:10:00 -0000

You are right No', they are registered trademarks. Fortunately I got permission to use the Django logo and the teaser on T-Shirts before going to public with the shop.

Re: Django T-Shirts and more

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:53:00 -0000

Thanks Christoph, and they go like hot cakes :)

Re: Django's Hotclub of France

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:26:00 -0000

Hi Wade!

Thank you so much for your opinion, you hit the nail on the head!

You are right, maby my thoughts were too technology centered and not so much about best practices and daily use. There are many ways of package and code management, each different in its approach and overall usefulness -- but it every time largely depends on the audience.

setuptools and the PyPI for example do their job pretty well and became the de facto standard for Python-based software even without official support. That's why I tried to use that set of tools for Django, though I haven't thought of the implications on Django beginners. Even if Django is written in Python and inherits its utility, it presents itself as a standalone software, sometimes denying its background. Which is obviously alright.

I'm not to afraid of the "phpnuke" metaphor (I'm used to be a PHP fanboy :) rather of the structure a future app repository could have. Luckily more and more communities about Django pop up and show what works and what not. I really like the simplicity of djangopeople.net for example. Let's see what the next months will bring. I'm thrilled to be at this year's Pycon for example :)

Re: Convert rst files to wiki markup used by Google Code Hosting

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 19:18:00 -0000

Great stuff Kumar,

thanks for the link!

Re: Resurrecting MissingDrawer plugin for TextMate

Jannis Leidel — Sun, 17 Feb 2008 12:04:00 -0000

You're welcome :)

Re: Resurrecting MissingDrawer plugin for TextMate

Jannis Leidel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:05:00 -0000

Thanks guys, that's very kind.

@Alex No, the there is no way to decide on which side the panel shows up at the moment. Though the source is included and I would be happy to have such functionality :)

Re: Resurrecting MissingDrawer plugin for TextMate

Jannis Leidel — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:53:00 -0000

@Kevin Indeed, this would be a great addition. I try to add this in the next version.

@Jan Great! Though this is a little hack-ish. I'll implement a menu item for this function.

Re: Resurrecting MissingDrawer plugin for TextMate

Jannis Leidel — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 15:32:00 -0000

Thanks to all of you! This is really great, I did not expect so much feedback but I'm willing to implement your feature requests. Cocoa and Objective-C are pretty new to me, so please have patience :)

So, I've set up a Google Code project at http://code.google.com/p/textmate-missingdrawer/ to handle bug reports and feature requests a little better. You are very welcome to join the project and make this plugin even more useful. I already checked in the code and created some wiki pages to keep the discussion going. I hope you like it. If not, don't worry and just post your comment here.

Re: A Pownce Jabber bot with Django backend

Jannis Leidel — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 06:04:00 -0000

@Christoph Thanks :)

@Anders Indeed, sleekxmpp looks sleek, though I don't know if changing powncebot's structure is worth the effort. But maby I just have to look at it a little longer.

The Pownce API 2.0 was released yesterday including official support to post notes. But I think I'll wait a little for James' python-pownce-api lib to be updated before integrating it into powncebot.

Re: A Pownce Jabber bot with Django backend

Jannis Leidel — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:45:00 -0000

Thanks Rob, very good idea!

I need to have a more thorough look on the xmpppy lib that I used to build the bot. I think file transfer could be a weak spot of Jabber, since it's problematic on every other IM net.

Re: Python library for reactable's TUIO protocol

Jannis Leidel — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 14:54:00 -0000

Yeah, I just stumbled over it, looks very interesting, thanks!

Re: Resurrecting MissingDrawer plugin for TextMate

Jannis Leidel — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 13:23:00 -0000

Ah, sorry forgot to update the changelog!

I just added a blue background.. this was an easy fix. Still working on the other feature request.

Thanks to orta for the code!

Re: Django T-Shirts and more

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:50:00 -0000

Hi Markus, thanks for your comment.

This is one of the "official" logos, have a look at the second file in eps format (django-logo-negative.eps) at http://www.djangoproject.com/community/logos/

I would totally love to see a photo of your shirt because Spreadshirt is definitely not my favorite company. Though they do worldwide shipping.

Concerning the color of the shirts: I think it's just my personal taste, so let's not discuss what you would do. I asked for permission from Jacob (Lawrence Journal-World) before putting these shirts online and some diversity isn't bad, right?

Re: Howto use Django on a Virtualmin server

Jannis Leidel — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 04:04:00 -0000

Hi Keith,
Is mod_rewrite enabled? On Debian (which I run) you can check by typing in a root shell:

ls /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/rewrite.load

If you get a warning "No such file or directory" (or similar) then you need to enable it by running:

a2enmod rewrite && /etc/init.d/apache2 force-reload

Then renable the rewrite part in the .htaccess file and it should work. Let me know if it doesn't work.

Re: Django Textmate Theme part two

Jannis Leidel — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:53:00 -0000

Thanks Paolo, I didn't know that these also work in e. Cool!

Re: EuroPython 2008 + Django sprint

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 15 May 2008 06:16:00 -0000

@zgoda, I hope so, too :)

@sean, I'm sure there is enough coverage of the talks online.
Besides I hope the core devs will join and make this a worldwide sprint.

Re: Django User Meetup in Berlin at Linuxtag 2008

Jannis Leidel — Tue, 27 May 2008 07:28:00 -0000

That'd be great!

Re: Django User Meetup in Berlin at Linuxtag 2008

Jannis Leidel — Tue, 27 May 2008 18:47:00 -0000

Cool, we need mooore!

Re: Django User Meetup in Berlin at Linuxtag 2008

Jannis Leidel — Wed, 28 May 2008 08:06:00 -0000

Django-Shirt :)

Re: Django User Meetup in Berlin at Linuxtag 2008

Jannis Leidel — Fri, 30 May 2008 06:19:00 -0000

Oh schade, wir werde aber sicherlich eine Weile zusammensitzen, ich schick dir eine Mail, wenn ich weiß wo wir hingehen.

Re: EuroPython 2008 + Django sprint

Jannis Leidel — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 10:56:00 -0000

Hey Remco, thanks for your effort!

See you there :D

Re: Resurrecting MissingDrawer plugin for TextMate

Jannis Leidel — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:45:00 -0000

Hi Ben,

I'm running Textmate on Leopard daily with this plugin, so I'm rather baffled. Since this sounds like a serious condition, could you please post a issue at http://code.google.com/p/textmate-missingdrawer... If you are using other plugins please list them there, too. Thanks :)

Re: Local Django Sprint, Berlin, Germany, August 08, 2008

Jannis Leidel — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:58:00 -0000

@David Cool, I try to make some pictures and write how it went afterwards. :)

@Jonas Awesome, don't hesitate to bring more people :D And don't worry about the organization, I'm sure there will be plenty of occasions in the future.

Re: Local Django Sprint, Berlin, Germany, August 08, 2008

Jannis Leidel — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 05:15:00 -0000

@Julian It depends on what you already know about Django and what you want to work on. Some work on fixing bugs or improving the docs, some on their own project, and some only chitchat.

Re: Updated: Local Django Sprint, Berlin, Germany, August 08-09, 2008

Jannis Leidel — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 17:29:00 -0000

Yeah, that's a known behaviour for anonymous edits of the Django wiki. Either go to settings (top right next to "Login") and add your name and e-mail. Once you click save, you should be able to edit without a problem. Or go to http://www.djangoproject.com/accounts/register/ to register for an own account and make sure you're logged in before editing the site.

Re: Easy overrides for absolute URLs of reusable apps

Jannis Leidel — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 06:26:00 -0000

Oh sure, and I don't use the provided URLconf :)

But unless I'm totally blind I still need to somehow override the get_absolute_url() of the entry objects so it contains the month as a number, not as short slug.

Re: Updates to django-dbtemplates and a half-assed promise

Jannis Leidel — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 11:43:00 -0000

Very nice, I'm looking forward to criticism :)

Re: A WYSIWYM editor widget for Django's admin interface

Jannis Leidel — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 16:34:00 -0000

@STEPHEN, There are some examples of WYMeditor in its svn repository, see http://files.wymeditor.org/wymeditor/trunk/src/....

@OMTV, TinyMCE isn't hard to integrate, I agree. It's rather the amount of features which annoys me. Especially if I have multiple form fields in an admin form that would show a ton of buttons.

@PATRICKK: Oh yeah, the themes aren't that great. I've been starting to make things at least a bit better, with an own skin: http://django-page-cms.googlecode.com/svn/trunk...

Re: An autocomplete widget for django-tagging form fields

Jannis Leidel — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:33:00 -0000

Thanks Greg, I'm glad you like it. Your's exactly the reason why I looked into making such a thing. I think there are others but didn't find it anywhere :)

Re: An autocomplete widget for django-tagging form fields

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 06:32:00 -0000

@PATRICKK

Well, that'd be an awesome widget, of course. Sounds like a great weekend project :)

Re: A WYSIWYM editor widget for Django's admin interface

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 06 Nov 2008 09:38:00 -0000

@ZGODA: Cool, would you mind sharing the changes with us?

Re: An autocomplete widget for django-tagging form fields

Jannis Leidel — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 05:56:00 -0000

Thanks Martin, the bugs are now fixed.

Re: An autocomplete form widget for ForeignKey model fields

Jannis Leidel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 08:14:00 -0000

@Martin Thanks! Yeah, I'll think about an own app for those kind of things :)

@Marc Indeed, that would make it even more reusable. And as I said, the code above is an example and should only be seen as an starting point.

Re: An autocomplete form widget for ForeignKey model fields

Jannis Leidel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:29:00 -0000

@patrickk: Regarding 1., do you mean like the raw-id widget Django is providing?

2. You are right about the second point, I just added those to the code above. Thanks!

Re: An autocomplete form widget for ForeignKey model fields

Jannis Leidel — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 09:25:00 -0000

@VERMUS: Yeah, that could work, I had this in mind while working on the ForeignKeyWidget, too.

Re: Jance a Jabber bot for Pownce

Jannis Leidel — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 12:25:56 -0000

Hi there, that's very nice!

I'm glad someone did the whole thing since my approach could only post and needed the full username/password (no oauth). In any case please feel free to look at the source and reuse anything you need, if at all :)

http://github.com/jezdez/pownce-jabber-bot/

Re: Switching to Django, PostgreSQL and WebFaction

Jannis Leidel — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 01:03:00 -0000

Looks like the transition went smoothly, nice :)

Re: Automatical superuser creation with Django

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:22:00 -0000

Holy crap, that's useful. I never thought of that.. jeez.

Re: virtualenvwrapper bash completion

Jannis Leidel — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:07:00 -0000

Awesome, I missed that badly! Thanks!

Re: WWDC 2007 - Keynote Liveblog?!?

Jannis Leidel — Sun, 06 May 2007 16:26:43 -0000

jawoll, hier huhu hieehiier!
die großen mac-portale sind zwar flink und irc channels bringen alle facts, aber persönliche randnotizen finde ich genauso wichtig und gut.

grüße

Re: Lessons Learned

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 06:46:00 -0000

Great article, Eric. Although this is indeed painful I'm also looking forward to see some of the functions in djangoplugables.com. Bryan signalized the chance to incorporate our code so it's not written without cause. It should not be abandoned, IMO.

Re: Spawning + Django

Jannis Leidel — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0000

Eric, great article, going to try that out now.

Although I think there is a typo in "spawn -factory=.." which needs to be "spawn --factory=.."

And don't you mean "The next thing to do is go to the directory which holds your **settings.py**.." instead?

Re: Easy Multi-Database Support for Django

Jannis Leidel — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:42:00 -0000

Very cool, Eric. One little nitpick with the way the databases are specified in the settings. I know that it's just Python, but it seems cleaner to me to prevent dict() calls. It would be nicer to just use a simple tuple approach and convert them to dictionaries in the backend.

See http://dpaste.de/605/ for an example.