Weblog
Dots in a SlugField
Filed under: development, django, vlent.nl
When migrating from Plone to Django, I had problems with editing weblog entries with a dot in the url. Apparently Django doesn't allow dots in a SlugField. Here's how I solved it.
Pound 2.5 on Mac OS X 10.6
Filed under: development, osx, plone
While updating a buildout, Pound would not compile anymore. “All” I did was update it from version 2.4.4 to 2.5.
Book review: Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging
Filed under: development, django
In April Packt published Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging by Karen M. Tracey. After reading it I figured I might as well write a review.
Lines of code revisited
Filed under: django, plone, vlent.nl
After a comment by Matt Hamilton on Twitter about the lines of code in my website project I listed in my previous weblog entry, I decided to dive in a bit deeper.
Switch to Django
Filed under: django, plone, vlent.nl
This site is now powered by Django instead of Plone. Yes, I've finally made the switch!
The migration also means my RSS feeds have changed. For more information, look at the end of this entry.
Products.enablesettrace now available as an egg!
Filed under: development, plone
The summary: as of today, you no longer need to checkout enablesettrace from the Zope subversion repository. You can just use the Products.enablesettrace egg to debug your restricted Python code.
Distributed Version Control Systems (presentation)
Filed under: git
On 19 February I held a presentation for my colleagues about distributed version control systems (DVCS). My main goal was to inform them on what I think is the next logical step in source control.
Web designer's skills
Filed under: design, development
Recently I read some articles about web designers. This got me thinking about the qualities I think you need to be a good designer and about the different ways a design can be made.
Unit testing: useful?
Filed under: development, testing
Today I read two articles about the usefulness of unit testing. Here are my thoughts.
Test sending emails while developing
Filed under: django, plone, python, testing
I frequently have to send emails from web applications. But before I deploy to a production environment, I want to make sure the mechanism works and the right mails are constructed. Here's two ways to do that.
