Re: Tutorial help

2009-12-31 Thread dartdog
as a general rule freehosts don't allow long running processes and therefore can't run Django, YMMMV let us know if you do get it going on a freehost, I doubt it.. On Dec 31, 9:39 am, CreativeApex wrote: > Ok, I've been following the tutorial.. I'm currently in the midst of > part 3.  I have the

Re: questions from a noob - win7 using django

2009-12-31 Thread dartdog
Look at a project like Django-mingus (on github) to see good layout and integration ideas..as well as proper use of the setup.py file which you need to be using. Your issues have nothing to do with windows at this time,, btw you should get familiar with Virtual-env and use it again Mingus is good

Re: MySQLdb module for Python 2.5 on Windows XP

2009-12-23 Thread dartdog
While I get the desirability of using mysql for development,, when starting out it is way easier to use the built in sql-lite.. works great and no config hassles. I now use both but wish I had not wasted too much time on the mysql config.. Just my 2cents worth..Sorry I don't have the time to find m

Early Registration for PYCON in Atlanta Ends Jan 7

2009-12-18 Thread dartdog
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Re: Django Settings File - Where is it?

2009-12-17 Thread dartdog
In your root dir for your Django project normally. settings.py Not in the django root if that is your confusion On Dec 17, 6:01 pm, reactosguy wrote: > Where is the Django settings file? I read the docs but I am confused. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Gro

Re: Trouble Installing Django on Windows XP SP3

2009-12-16 Thread dartdog
I can vouch for running Django on Windows! it works fine,, just follow directions precisely. You must use command line, for ALL steps, not GUI or you will probably never get it going though. My biggest error was attempting to use GUI (file manager etc) for some steps... On Dec 16, 4:17 pm, Karen T

Re: How do I minimize memory usage with WSGI and Apache?

2009-08-10 Thread dartdog
Big help!! Had just started getting using too much memory notices from Webfaction yesterday evening... The other item is using the crontab -e command from ssh to comment out apps you don't need to have running For some reason could not find that when I was looking for it and one of my sites ju

Re: Run the Django Site in Apache

2009-07-11 Thread dartdog
If you are using a web hosting company they often have some good material, particularly Webfaction, you can look at their support for a lot of material on this topic. On Jul 11, 3:17 pm, Kannan wrote: > Hi Friends... >           I am new to the Django.Just learning about the Django.I have > crea

Re: Design Tools any suggestions?

2009-07-11 Thread dartdog
els > > I had a bear of a time installing it on my Mac however.  Graphviz > isn't Visio or a UML editor though so the utility of that program for > model designing is kind of limited. > > On Jul 11, 11:16 am, dartdog wrote: > > > Just looked through the Eclipse site,

Re: Design Tools any suggestions?

2009-07-11 Thread dartdog
Just looked through the Eclipse site, anyone have any opinions as to which free UML tool is worth looking at? Lots there but many/most inactive? On Jul 11, 8:53 am, dartdog wrote: > Thank to both Unfortunately I'm on Windows Vista, so It looks like > Umbrello is not yet ready, looks

Re: Design Tools any suggestions?

2009-07-11 Thread dartdog
m wondering what the Django dev's use, in some cases it seems that people are just moving right into code with little pre planning?? On Jul 10, 10:32 pm, Streamweaver wrote: > I use netbeans and there is a UML plugin that you can download and use > for free. > > On Jul 10, 10:43 

Design Tools any suggestions?

2009-07-10 Thread dartdog
Starting to noodle out some system design stuff for Django implementation does anyone have good ideas suggestions for useful tools to encompass db (model) business logic and presentation components, flow and how to tie them together. It seems that the most obvious solution in freeware is dia? It

Re: Django as python ORM in project

2009-07-06 Thread dartdog
your link just goes to the overview SO page (can't find your post),, If you post what you have in mind here you might get some useful feedback. On Jul 6, 6:55 am, zayatzz wrote: > Hi > > I keep coming up things to do and this time the project is not > completely a web project. I want to write s

Re: Trying to get static media to serve from Django in Debug on windows

2009-07-03 Thread dartdog
Users/DadLaptop/Documents/E1workspace/django_yabba/ src/django_yaba/media'}), ) On Jun 29, 3:44 pm, dartdog wrote: > The doc here give an > example:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/ > Which looks like so: > if settings.DEBUG: >     urlpatterns +=

Re: startproject in Windows w/ Python 2.6.2

2009-06-30 Thread dartdog
You must use the command window (no gui clicking!!) cd/ to right directory and best to run cmd As admin if vista.. On Jun 30, 6:59 pm, Jasconius wrote: > I just got Python installed with Django... ran Django installer just > fine... > > Went to run  django-admin.py startproject mysite > > Didn't

Re: startproject in Windows w/ Python 2.6.2

2009-06-30 Thread dartdog
Don't know what the issue is but revision isn't one AFAIKT I've been able to get trunk running with Python 2.62 I'm still in start up mode myself but go back to tutorial and follow precisely... no shortcuts.. for what its worth! On Jun 30, 6:59 pm, Jasconius wrote: > I just got Python installed

Re: Installation on XP

2009-06-29 Thread dartdog
one more thing follow the example/tutorial in the django book v2 exactly,, no shortcuts,,, On Jun 29, 5:32 pm, dartdog wrote: > It is very doable but lots of stuff, I'm still working it out,, I > suggest Eclipse... with Pydev for the python env,, It can support > Django as well

Re: Installation on XP

2009-06-29 Thread dartdog
It is very doable but lots of stuff, I'm still working it out,, I suggest Eclipse... with Pydev for the python env,, It can support Django as well but that gets more tricky I hope to get it all documented shortly... my travails are somewhat documented on my blog , http://tombrander.wordpress.com w

Trying to get static media to serve from Django in Debug on windows

2009-06-29 Thread dartdog
The doc here give an example: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/ Which looks like so: if settings.DEBUG: urlpatterns += patterns('', (r'^site_media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/path/to/media'}), ) So I put this in my Main urls fi

Re: Django database model interface for other python projects?

2009-06-28 Thread dartdog
One of the reasons I'm enduring the pain of getting into Django is it's very clever way of being able to use Python libs and visa versa in a very loosely coupled manner. People seem to pick and choose what they want to use. Not fully understanding you question I'd say of course you can! On Jun 28

Re: Tagging, parse_lookup what is the Right current method to implement "tagging"

2009-06-28 Thread dartdog
HONPATH. You could > create any directory you like (with your module), add it to your > PYTHONPATH and use it like before. > > Say you've got 2 projects on django and you need tagging app in both. > You won't copy tagging app in both of your projects, right? > > On Jun 28,

Re: Have really messed myself up, mercy!

2009-06-28 Thread dartdog
ing a hosed up Mysql driver.. anyone else?? FWIW I don't get any output to the console even on start-up...(much less shutdown.) On Jun 28, 2:34 pm, dartdog wrote: > I was making great progress in getting some stuff going with Django > then I blew myself up. not sure how and what to

Have really messed myself up, mercy!

2009-06-28 Thread dartdog
I was making great progress in getting some stuff going with Django then I blew myself up. not sure how and what to do next... I use Eclipse on win 64 vista box, all was going along..fine but I was having some issues with installing packages,,which I think I've finally got a feel for but in the pr

Re: Tagging, parse_lookup what is the Right current method to implement "tagging"

2009-06-27 Thread dartdog
009 at 5:46 PM, dartdog wrote: > > > Old topic but don't really get the solution... > > I'm using SVN 1.1 Django > > and Python 2.6 On win Vista > > I downloaded tagging and it now sits in my Site-Packages directory for > > Python I used Tagging 0.2.1 win 3

Tagging, parse_lookup what is the Right current method to implement "tagging"

2009-06-27 Thread dartdog
Old topic but don't really get the solution... I'm using SVN 1.1 Django and Python 2.6 On win Vista I downloaded tagging and it now sits in my Site-Packages directory for Python I used Tagging 0.2.1 win 32exe from Google code It seems very strange to me that this Django package chooses to live in

Re: Really really basic,,, use of @ sign in code

2009-05-05 Thread dartdog
Thanks guys!! On May 5, 6:05 pm, Wayne Koorts wrote: > > When you're starting out it is often the simplest stuff > > I'm reading some code and I see tow blocks with @permalink at the > > start, it looks to me that this s just a comment (that requires no > > termination i.e. one word??)  but

Really really basic,,, use of @ sign in code

2009-05-05 Thread dartdog
When you're starting out it is often the simplest stuff I'm reading some code and I see tow blocks with @permalink at the start, it looks to me that this s just a comment (that requires no termination i.e. one word??) but I just wanted confirmation, believe it or not it is about impossible to

Re: Google Appengine patch and Apengine Helper

2009-04-26 Thread dartdog
Well,, both have issues,, but there has not been any visible activity on 1)app-engine Django since about August 08. While the lone developer on 2)App engine patch is working hard daily.. I have seen a few posts that others have abandoned # 1 in favor of # 2 but the projects need more people to co

Re: Django on Google app engine

2009-04-26 Thread dartdog
AM, dartdog wrote: > > > I'd also add that the Django project had it's last release in Aug 08 > > and the App engine Patch is being actively worked on almost daily. > > This statement is rather unclear.  The "Django project" sounds like Django > itself,

Re: Django on Google app engine

2009-04-25 Thread dartdog
I'd also add that the Django project had it's last release in Aug 08 and the App engine Patch is being actively worked on almost daily. On Apr 25, 3:13 am, Joshua Partogi wrote: > Hi Filip, > > Thanks for the long explanation. It saves me time to mess around with > App Engine :-) Based on your e

Re: Django on Google app engine

2009-04-25 Thread dartdog
Actually you can download a sample app with App-Engine Patch and be up and going very quickly, using non-ported apps is more problematic... But also moving forward at a fair pace. Google's lack of support for certain key features in the datastore are a real issue like lack of full text search... (