Re: is django too big for my use case?

2012-09-08 Thread Steven Elliott
I do not think your use case is too big for Django; you are only limited to your imagination and your knowledge of Python really. Check out Django Piston for RESTful APIs On Sat, Sep 8, 2012 at 4:05 PM, LuckySMack

Re: Can't Syncdb

2012-09-08 Thread Steven Elliott
What's the error message you get specifically On Sep 8, 2012 7:31 AM, "Kollin" wrote: > I create a project. I create app by name "app" in the project. The app > that : > app > __init__.py > models > __init__.py > a.py > b.py > but I can't

Re: Step up to the plate

2012-09-06 Thread Steven Elliott
Hi alex I'm down as well email me at srichardelliot...@gmail.com On Sep 6, 2012 6:28 PM, "andrea mucci" wrote: > Hi Alex > > if you need some help contact me to and.mu...@gmail.com > > have a nice day > El 07/09/2012, a las 00:18, Alex Glaros

messages.sucess question

2012-09-04 Thread Steven Elliott
Hello, Is there an easy way to not display a success message as an unordered list? I have been looking high and low and for some reason cannot find an answer to this. Thank you! Best, Steven Elliott -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django

Re: [pinax-users] Learning Django+Pinax - Recommend books and/or tutorials?

2012-01-27 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
> > What would you recommend? > To get started with Python: http://pragprog.com/book/gwpy/practical-programming

Re: I need help with Python Tools for Visual Studio 2010 and Django

2012-01-27 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
On Jan 25, 2012, at 9:14 PM, JJ Zolper wrote: > > The keywords were 'in production'. The development server (i.e. python > > manage.py runserver) works fine under Windows. But when you want to > > make the website accessible to your audience (the internet, company > > etc.), you should host that

Re: Django for a large social networking or photo sharing site?

2011-11-22 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Yes > Hello, > > [This is the first time I am using Google Groups and/or mailing lists, > so please bear with me if I do something wrong initially.] > > Is Django web framework apt for a large social networking or photo > sharing site? (Think one that has to easily and seamlessly scale to > the

Re: installing django

2011-09-13 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
What exactly is the problem? Can you provide more detail? Platform, error messages, python version? What have you tried already? On Sep 13, 2011, at 1:21 PM, re64 wrote: > I am having trouble installing django. I cant seem to do it any > suggestions > > -- > You

Re: Django Development environment

2011-08-27 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
On Aug 27, 2011, at 11:17 AM, Simon Connah <simon.connah...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 27 Aug 2011, at 04:44, Steven Elliott Jr wrote: > >>> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 15:07 +0100, Simon Connah wrote: >>>> Mercurial or Git (depends on whether the project i

Re: Django Development environment

2011-08-27 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
> On Fri, 2011-08-26 at 15:07 +0100, Simon Connah wrote: >> Mercurial or Git (depends on whether the project is open source or not) Kenneth, I think he means whether or not the repository will be public or private. Github (git) does not offer private repos unless you pay whereas bitbucket

Re: Django Development environment

2011-08-25 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
> Am 23.08.2011 00:07, schrieb Stephen Jackson: >> I am new to the world of Django. I would like to hear from other django >> developers describe their dev environment (tools, os, editors, etc.). Mac OS X Lion PyCharm and TextMate with Python competion and Django bundles Mysql & MongoDB South

Re: Question about Displaying a Table

2011-06-27 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Django has about the best documentation out there foe getting started. Walk through the tutorial and see how it goes. Sent from my iPhone On Jun 27, 2011, at 2:25 PM, "Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]" wrote: > Forgive me but, the tone of this email

Re: Django - Verfication of runserver vs browser

2011-01-24 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Have you tried running it on a different port? Can you post the actual error message you get? -Steven Elliott Jr On Jan 24, 2011, at 2:05 PM, Kimberly Harvey <kharve...@gmail.com> wrote: > I ran the browser in the linux. > > On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Javier Guerr

Re: Django Improper Configuration

2011-01-23 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
PM UTC+11, Kimberly wrote: > it says that the _file_ is not defined. > > On Sun, Jan 23, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Graham Dumpleton <graham.d...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > On Monday, January 24, 2011 2:19:09 PM UTC+11, Steven Elliott Jr wrote: > Copy and Paste the following to r

Re: Django Improper Configuration

2011-01-23 Thread Steven Elliott
> That was already pointed out to them. You're right, sorry my bad -- I just got to my computer and read the thread rather than just using my phone. > The lack of a comma should have resulted in a syntax error, which makes me > believe, unless they modified the content before posting, that

Re: Django Improper Configuration

2011-01-23 Thread Steven Elliott
Also, what editor are you using? if its not an IDE-type thing remember to save your work in the editor. If you are coming from the Windows programming world generally your programs will save when you build and run something in the IDE. If you're using just an editor like Emacs, Vim, Gedit,

Re: Django Improper Configuration

2011-01-23 Thread Steven Elliott
Copy and Paste the following to replace your entire DATABASES tuple: DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', 'NAME': 'database.db', 'USER': '', 'PASSWORD': '',

Re: Django Improper Configuration

2011-01-23 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
I remember that the one time I tried sqlite it complained until I put a .db suffix on the name of my database. If you do not specify the full path and just specify a name, then it will just create the database file in your project's root directory. So, under name just put: 'NAME' :

Re: Expert help needed --LINUX on virtualBox using Windows 7 machine

2011-01-21 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
> > > While I am sure we can all sympathize with confronting a technical problem > that we don't understand, this OP has the flavor of trolling perhaps. At any > rate this is the wrong list for these pleadings. I don't even see a question You're so right; I don't know why I am wasting my

Re: Expert help needed --LINUX on virtualBox using Windows 7 machine

2011-01-21 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
her triple-boot a system than run in a VM. Best, Steven Elliott steve...@me.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this grou

Re: Expert help needed --LINUX on virtualBox using Windows 7 machine

2011-01-20 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Why don't you try partitioning your hard drive instead and doing a dual boot installation? Also, it's Debian not Derbian. -Steve On Jan 20, 2011, at 4:59 PM, Kimberly wrote: > This is now a LINUX-Derbian problem I am experiencing. I open the > virtualbox and clicked

Re: Installing Django on Linux-Derbian using virtualBox on Windows 7 Machine

2011-01-20 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
> Ubuntu IS Debian for all intents and purposes. Why does your boss insist that > you use a particular distro? It shouldn't really matter what your development > OS is (at least with *nix systems). Is there an existing Django application > that needs to be supported or is this a new project? >

Re: Django's documention is horrible

2011-01-10 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Ummm... I think thats the first time I've ever heard anyone say that django's documentation sucks. Sent from my iPhone On Jan 10, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Simon W wrote: > Hey, > For such a good web framework it's a shame that the documention is not > structured well .. at all.

Re: Django on Apache

2010-09-25 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
MAMP can be a bit of a pain I think sometimes to modify, though I haven't used it much in the past few years. You can use the Mac's built-in apache server though with mod_python. Check out http://www.google.com/search?q=mod_python+mac+os+x=UTF-8=UTF-8=en=safari Sent from my iPhone On Sep 25,

Re: Recommend a book

2010-09-23 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
I have found beginning django e-commere as practical django projects to be great. Both from apress. I prefer to use books that go through building real world solutions. The definitive guide to django is a must read though. On Sep 23, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Tim Johnson wrote:

Re: Pylons vs. Django

2010-09-05 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
You can use sqlalchemy with django too Sent from my iPad On Sep 5, 2010, at 2:37 PM, Juan Hernandez wrote: > Well, just by using SQLAlchemy makes this framework worth a try > > On 9/5/10, Feross wrote: >> Hey everyone, >> >> I'm a new Python user and

Re: LIMITATIONS of django

2010-09-04 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
This is not really an appropriate question. Django, like many frameworks is a collection of libraries written in some language. Django happens to be written in Python; as such, your proficiency with Python will have an effect on what you can and can't do with Django. Django provides a lot of

Re: how do you build an html website in python?

2010-04-17 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
@codecub If you are interested in just building an HTML website why not just write it in HTML? Why do you think you need to use Python? What are the requirements of the website? Do you need a database and middleware? If so I would recommend following the django tutorial first:

Re: Giving up PHP. ...Can't decide between Django & Rails

2010-04-17 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
developer even if you only work professionally with one stack, learning and playing with other things will open up your mind. For me yes I love python and django but I also play with erlang, lua, haskell, xyz framework... you name it. It's good for yer noggin. -Steven Elliott Jr On Apr 17

Re: how do you build an html website in python?

2010-04-17 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Python won't build a site for you by itself. Do you already know python, HTML, JavaScript, relational databases and the like? All of these things are still important. Python is only one piece of the overall puzzle. -Steven Elliott Jr On Apr 17, 2010, at 9:13 AM, "ge...@aquarianhous

Re: OS X Server upgrade (10.6.3) can't load psycopg2 from apache2/modpython

2010-04-14 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Righty. Glad you got it sorted. Cheers mate -Steven Elliott Jr On Apr 14, 2010, at 5:39 PM, John Abraham <jabra...@ucalgary.ca> wrote: It's definitely a system path / python path problem. I did the brute force method of linking psycopg to the django project directories, twice

Re: OS X Server upgrade (10.6.3) can't load psycopg2 from apache2/modpython

2010-04-14 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Hey John, I am running Mac OS X Server(s) as well but have not yet updated to 10.6.3 - I am going to do this now and see if it breaks anything. My apps are all running using the preinstalled version so I'm curious to see if anything breaks. Just curious -- my python version is 2.6.1 and I

Re: MySQLdb setup on snow leopard help

2010-04-12 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Did you run the install as sudo? -Steven Elliott Jr On Apr 12, 2010, at 3:09 AM, Bdidi <bdi...@gmail.com> wrote: I reinstalled XCode to include 10.4 support and tried again, and MySQLdb is now installed, but now I get this: File "/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versi

Re: Admin issues

2010-04-09 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Have you looked at your db? are the tables there that you wrote in your models. Did you run python manage.py syncdb and did you see verification that your tables were created? If you want to see that the sql is being created run python manage.py sqlall app_name to make sure its generating

Re: Giving up PHP. ...Can't decide between Django & Rails

2010-04-09 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
I think it largely boils down (as many have said) to a python vs ruby debate. I personally hate Ruby... I think its perl with a nice syntax, its very obtuse and just downright hard to maintain as projects get bigger (IMHO, others I;m sure disagree). As far was what is better about Django for

Re: Setting up Django on snow leopard

2010-04-09 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Its also a good idea to install the Developer Tools ... You should check which version of Python you are using too. I think be default OS X uses 2.6.1 This is what I get when I type "python" into the terminal: Python 2.6.1 (r261:67515, Feb 11 2010, 00:51:29) On Apr 9, 2010, at 11:38 AM, Lee

Re: Setting up Django on snow leopard

2010-04-09 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Are you running the install as superuser? I am running leopard too and ran into the same problem but once you run it as: sudo python setup.py install it should work.. Also, dumb question but do you have mysql installed? Its also a good idea to put this: # mysql path

Re: Admin issues

2010-04-09 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Uncomment: #'django.contrib.sessions', make sure to import admin from django.contrib and turn admin.autodiscover() and yes, error messages would be helpful... if any. On Apr 9, 2010, at 10:32 AM, Stuart wrote: > What you have looks about right. What result are you getting? An error >

Re: Admin issues

2010-04-09 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
this helps! but you will still need to make sure that you have On Apr 9, 2010, at 9:13 AM, Steven Elliott Jr wrote: > In your urls. py make sure you have: > > from django.contrib import admin > admin.autodiscover() > > and > > that you've uncommented the (r'^admin/',

Re: Admin issues

2010-04-09 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
In your urls. py make sure you have: from django.contrib import admin admin.autodiscover() and that you've uncommented the (r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)), in the tuple: urlpatterns = patterns. On Apr 9, 2010, at 8:44 AM, Sheena wrote: > Hey hey. I'm a little new to Django so I've

Re: Django in the enterprise?

2010-02-24 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
anks for the insight; I appreciate it. Steve On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:31 PM, Eric Chamberlain wrote: > > On Feb 24, 2010, at 6:23 AM, Steven Elliott Jr wrote: > >> Dear friends, >> I apologize for writing this type of question to the community but I would >> appreciat

Re: Django in the enterprise?

2010-02-24 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
@Philip Thanks for information -- very good advice. I appreciate all the input from everyone else as well. I intend to start using Django for almost everything going forward. Thanks, Steve On Feb 24, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Phlip wrote: > Steven Elliott Jr wrote: > >> Right now

Re: Django in the enterprise?

2010-02-24 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
Thank you to all for your comments. It has been most helpful. On Feb 24, 2010, at 11:05 AM, Andy McKay wrote: > > On 2010-02-24, at 6:40 AM, Steven Elliott Jr wrote: >> Right now we have Java and ASP.NET doing most of the work for us but the >> systems are old and need updati

Re: Django in the enterprise?

2010-02-24 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
@Shawn Sorry if I was not clear with my question. It seems like a lot of sites that I have seen on djangosites are news sites, or content-driven sites like blogs, personal web pages, social networking-type sites like fluther.com, etc. I was just curious if anyone has every sat down and wrote a

Django in the enterprise?

2010-02-24 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
? Thank you very much for your time. Best, Steven Elliott -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-user

Re: Passenger 57 - a Django query problem

2010-02-20 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
as a whole. Let's not start bickering amongst ourselves... Best, Steven Elliott Sent from my iPhone On Feb 20, 2010, at 7:19 PM, Russell Keith-Magee <freakboy3...@gmail.com> wrote: On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 4:11 AM, Sithembewena Lloyd Dube <zebr...@gmail.com> wrote: I wonder

Re: Django IDE

2010-02-15 Thread Steven Elliott Jr
TextMate! On Feb 15, 2010, at 5:45 AM, Anton Bessonov wrote: > http://www.vim.org/ > > dj_vishal schrieb: >> Hello >> >> Hi to all am new to the Django Framework.am learning django >> Which IDE is suitable for Django ..plz help me in right way >> >> Thanks in Advance >> vishal >>