Django 1.2

Django 1.2 has been released!

http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/may/17/12/

One of the great new features that I am most excited about is support for multiple databases within a project.

Django Smuggler Import/Export

Just started using Django Smuggler (http://github.com/semente/django-smuggler) for importing/exporting data from the Django admin (in JSON or XML). It's very easy to get going. And it's very useful.

Easy install:

sudo easy_install django-smuggler

It's an excellent, do-one-thing-well utility. Check it out.

South for Django

Just made good use of South for database migrations for my Django application. Like most good things in the Django community "it just worked." Magnificent.

Django and OpenID

I finally got Django + OpenID working (quite easily in the end) using django_openid_auth (after some struggles with some of the older Django + OpenID packages).

django_openid_auth is actually made by the developers of LaunchPad, who help out quite a bit on Ubuntu.

Working on new redbirdsoftware.com

I'm working on a new website (www.redbirdsoftware.com).

• The site is hosted via Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Computing Cloud (EC2)
• The server's operating system is Ubuntu Linux
• The site is written in Python, using Django

Powerful combo...

Google App Engine 1.2.3 with Django 1.0

Up until recently Google App Engine only had pre-1.0 Django support built-in. You could of course jimmy it to work with 1.0, but it was a little unnatural. Now with GAE 1.2.3, Django 1.0 support is baked in. Google App Engine + Django = Nice!

http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine/browse_thread/thread/fab4e52646994dff/93bdf272719b724c?pli=1

Dajax = Django + Ajax

Dajax is a Ajax library for Django. I haven't had a chance to check it out yet, but this is my reminder to do so.

First AppEngine Deployment

I got my first app up and running Google AppEngine (GAE) this week. Overall the experience was pretty good. The only hangup was that it took a while for the app's indexes to build (over an hour). But after that, everything is humming.

I will do some more lengthy write ups in the future about the application and the experience, but for now I'll summarize:
AppEngine + Django = Nice.

Ubuntu 9.04, Django, Google AppEngine

Today's tasks:

• Upgrade to Ubuntu 9.04 (done)
• Get Django 1.0 working on Google AppEngine (done)
• Work on Feed aggregator for Flex After Dark (in progress)

Haystack with Whoosh Support

Haystack is a pure-Python library for adding search to your Django application. It has support for Whoosh as well. I'll be looking into this as a possibility for Flex After Dark's search functionality.

Flex After Dark

I'm currently working on Flex After Dark, a site for learning about Adobe Flex and related technologies. I'm just getting started, so stay tuned for some updates.

Technologies I'm using for the site include: Flex, Python, Django, Ubuntu, and EC2.