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Another django-restful-model-views Update

admin — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 13:34:24 +0000

As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Andreas Stuhlmueller has proposed a general REST API for Django, and as his ideas and mine seemed very compatible, we began talking about collaborating on a joint solution.

Django Registration for Newbies

admin — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:54:14 +0000

I recently turned my attention to user account management in Django and what follows are (cleaned-up) notes I made while exploring the django-registration contribution. As a result, this post is very introductory and task oriented, but hopefully, it will help orient newcomers like me to what's available and provide a foundation for exploring these topics in more depth.

django-restful-model-views contribution update

admin — Fri, 06 Apr 2007 16:44:58 +0000

I've updated the django-restful-model-views contribution, based on feedback I've received, primarily to make this a more generic REST API (not just model based). This update also begins implementing some ideas borrowed from Ruby on Rails.

Displaying High Resolution Images on the Web with Zoomifyer.

admin — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 16:04:49 +0000

I recently wrote an article, due to be published in this month's Information Technologies and Libraries (ITAL) journal, about a project I started a few years ago called Zoomify Image. Basically, Zoomifyer is a Flash based image viewer that allows you to quickly view high resolution images over the Web. And I mean really high resolution images--files Gigabytes in size. It can do this because of a second piece of software that pre-processes images on the server, splitting them into tiles at various scales that the Zoomifyer viewer can then asynchronously request as needed to render the image in the browser. Zoomify Image is written in Python and makes Zoomifyer available across platforms.

Evolving a RESTful Django Contribution

admin — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:37:48 +0000

I posted an announcement to the django-users list about the django-restful-model-views contribution to get some feedback on the approach. The main responder, Malcolm Tredinnick, gave me a lot to think about and along with more research into how Ruby on Rails (RoR) implements REST, I have new ideas about how to improve the contribution.

Test Driving a RESTful Django Contribution

admin — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 00:37:56 +0000

This time around, I will try to take the logical next step with my exploration of REST and Django, and begin creating a Django contribution to implement the ideas I have been working on and to do so in a way that fits with Django's philosophy.

django REST redux

admin — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:21:33 +0000

This is the third post in a series exploring how to create a basic tagging application, and how to do so in the Django framework so that I may better understand Django as well as other technologies and development approaches that are at least somewhat new to me. This time, I want to revisit REST, and hopefully come up with something more usable from the last post.

toward a RESTful approach to Django applications

admin — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:45:11 +0000

If you've read my blog in the past, and you probably haven't, you'll know that I have been trying earnestly to understand how to effectively apply REST, both in Web applications and Web Services. I also believe that you can't claim to know something, and judge it fairly, until you have used it in a significant project. That is what I intend to begin in this post.

Implementing Tagging in a Django Application

admin — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 18:15:37 +0000

Although I've used many Web based applications that employ tagging, I've yet to create an application of my own with this feature. But now, I have two potential projects on the horizon that could benefit from tagging, and I'm thinking about how to best implement this, both in the database and user interface layers. So, I thought I would explore how to implement tagging in my own applications, from scratch, and write about them on this blog. Therefore, I won't pretend I have all the answers--or even necessarily any good answers--but I will simply be trying to think through how to approach implementing tagging, and I will welcome any constructive feedback on those thoughts.

Small Django tips from one newbie to another

admin — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:42:54 +0000

I am a Django newbie: I have gotten my feet wet exploring Django and have started building my first serious application with it. I am having more fun with Django than I have had with any other software tool in a long time, and I would like to share a few things I have learned along the way so far, that might help other newbies. If you are a more experienced Django-neer reading this and notice areas for improvement or outright mistakes, I would be very grateful for the feedback.