Tag Archives: Django

Fixing lousy introspection support in Python DB APIs (partially)

September 2, 2009 – 11:50 pm

For my internship at Think Wize, I’ve been working on a custom Django management command that compares the current model definitions (models.py) and the current database schema, and tries to spot the differences. I’ve called it checkdb. Optionally it can also attempt to fix them, with checkdb –fix.
syncdb is not agile
Django’s syncdb management command, used [...]

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Capturing the mouse with jQuery

February 10, 2009 – 8:46 pm

I’ve been working on a Javascript-driven Django application pretty much non-stop for the last week or so. I’ll leave my experiences with the Django framework for another post1. There’s more than twice as much Javascript code in this application than there is Python code, so I can’t really claim that I know Django yet, to [...]

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