The last post we’ve shared included setting up & using Vim for Python/Django-related development. I’ll assume throughout the guide that you’ve been using Vim ever since (Vim is amazing :)). Well, let me add up another helpful tutorial on how to use vim, this time for your unit tests. We’ll …
In this article, we talk about how to configure a Django development environment using VirtualBox as a development server, and your host machine as a means for writing the code. In concept, this should be doable on any VM software, but I’ll just focus on using VirtualBox. But why the …
This is the second part of our tutorial, check out Part 1 if you haven’t already! If you, the reader, have some server admin-fu and have come to realize that you already know what you are doing, then feel free to either skip this part or consider the end of …
There are a lot of text editors and IDEs for a popular language such as Python, and we’ve already featured Eclipse/PyDev before. Today, we’ll focus on Vim, a highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. From the Vim website: Vim is often called a “programmer’s editor,” and …
Using Eclipse with PyDev as an IDE for your development on your Django project can be very helpful in many ways. Since it is integrated, the eclipse has the access to some of the compiler’s information, which means you got assistance in code writing. This includes code hinting, auto-completion, error …
When customizing Django forms, you usually have to add it on the forms definition using the widget. Say for example you want to add a class attribute to a form input. You have to do it this way forms.py : from django import forms class VolunteerForm(forms.Form) name = forms.TextInput() address =forms.TextField(widget=forms.Textarea(attrs={‘class’:’volunteer_class’})) …
In Django 1.3 deleting a record of a filefield will not automatically delete the file associated with the record. This is done to prevent data loss scenarios such as roll back transactions and different models representing the same file. So to clean up unrepresented files in the database, you have to …
In our previous post, we discussed Django-tinymce, a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor that converts an HTML textarea field into an editor instance. Again, django-tinymce is a Django application that contains a widget that renders a form field as a TinyMCE editor. This is especially helpful when you have forms that require …
In our previous post, we discussed Django-tinymce, a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor that converts an HTML textarea field into an editor instance. Again, django-tinymce is a Django application that contains a widget that renders a form field as a TinyMCE editor. This is especially helpful when you have forms that require …
TinyMCE is a JavaScript WYSIWYG editor that converts an HTML textarea field into an editor instance. django-tinymce is a Django application that contains a widget that renders a form field as a TinyMCE editor. Features of django-tinymce include: – Using it as a form widget or with a view – Integrate …
