We have just completed our third year as a sponsor of PyCon and I thought I'd take a few minutes to reflect on our use of Python as well as the conference itself.

Pretty much everyone I spoke to was impressed that we've been programming Web sites in Python since 1997.  Several thanked us for our support over so many years.  I'm always somewhat bemused when we are thanked for our use of Python.  Although we've always had open source sensibilities, our choice of Python wasn't so much altruistic as it was a business decision ...

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Updated 02/24/10 @ 10:07AM CST by brian

Categories: Django Python

Tags: pycon

There's been a healthy amount of discussion about how applications should handle settings. As the creator of Mingus pointed out, it's a weird situation. You want anyone to be able to use your application with as little fuss as possible, but at the same time you just need to have at least some settings involved. When I wrote my blog application, YaBa, I had somewhere around ten different settings that users needed to configure. Every setting you add creates a bit more complexity for the end user, adds more to your documentation, and inevitably leads to you have ...

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Updated 02/18/10 @ 12:38PM CST by markr

Categories: Django

Tags: configuration django python settings

Imaginary Landscape has been a sponsor of open source efforts since its founding in 1995. This year is already off to a great start, with plenty of great events happening in the Chicago area.

On January 9th and 10th a Django Sprint was held at Everyblock's office, just a little South of our offices. We provided pizza, beer and soda for lunch and one of our programmers, Larisa Hoffenbecker, attended both days of the sprint. As always a lot of good work was done during the sprint, including everything from fixing broken links and typos to changes to model ...

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Updated 01/22/10 @ 04:04PM CST by cpeters

Categories: Django Python

Tags: chipy pycon sprint

I recently started working on another new project here at Imaginary Landscape, and this one looked rather enticing as it threw some stuff my way that I haven't had a chance to play with much recently. First on that chopping block was a multi-page registration form application. Immediately I remembered reading about Django's Form Wizard module and thought it'd be a great way to handle this small application. At least I thought so until I finished reading the specifications for the project and realized that the user must be able to move both backwards and forwards through ...

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Updated 12/14/09 @ 11:13AM CST by markr

Categories: Django

Tags: django forms

I recently read an article by Steve Holden, chairman of the Python Software Foundation, titled Comments or Not? Public or Private? Relevant or Irrelevant?. It's a rather interesting read that I definitely recommend that covers the heated PyPi comments debate, issue tracking, and the surrounding Python community. There are also a number of insightful comments on this blog post, but I personally felt a lengthier blog post to be more fitting than a comment in retort.

First off, commenting on PyPi has stirred up quite a bit of debate. I personally feel that the pros are outweighed by the ...

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Updated 12/02/09 @ 02:00PM CST by markr

Categories: Python

Tags: community pypi python