Posted on June 30, 2007 by Christopher
Wow it has been a crazy two weeks. My boss has gone on holiday to Scotland for three weeks and left me to manage stuff. Let’s just say that I have a new respect for him. Trying to manage customers, people and your own work is damn hectic.
Anyway, somewhere along the line [...]
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Posted on June 24, 2007 by Christopher
I have a little time so I thought I’d shed some light on what I learnt with regards to setting up Apache on Ubuntu to serve Python and Django.
To continue you will need to ensure that you have Apache installed on your system. To install it open a Terminal window and enter the following [...]
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Posted on June 19, 2007 by Christopher
Well this is just one of those rant sessions that a person sometimes needs to have when you don’t want to actually bore the people around you with some of the inconsequential matters of your life.
If you have nothing better to do with the hours you have left, read on. Otherwise, skip this page [...]
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Posted on June 14, 2007 by Christopher
It’s been a little while since my last post but time has been tight lately. Busy releasing software to clients and the hours are long because it needs to be done after hours …anyway
I have spent some of my spare time (which is not much) dabbling in Django and am [...]
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Posted on June 11, 2007 by Christopher
For those of you who prefer GUI to console and you’re not the kind of person that prefers the speed of a good console slowed only down by the speed of your fingers and your trusty binary clock, you may be interested in RapidSVN to manage your Subversion repository.
Features include:
Easy to use interface.
Simple for beginners [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2007 by Christopher
We have version control (Subversion), database (PostgreSQL), language (Python), a framework (Django) and an IDE (SPE IDE). If you do not you can just read some of my previous posts to see how we set this all up.
Moving forward though, today I thought I would look at the anatomy of a Django project [...]
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Posted on June 8, 2007 by Christopher
It was brought to my attention in my last post that I should have a look at Komodo Edit, which is the free version of Komodo IDE, Scribes and Eric IDE for Python development.
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Posted on June 7, 2007 by Christopher
So I have started this morning with some investigation into finding a suitable Python IDE as I do some learning. It is a need of mine to become fluent
When you simply type Python IDE into Google you get quite a few results back. There are two pay-for IDEs that [...]
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Posted on June 5, 2007 by Christopher
It has been busy but I am back and ready to setup a database for my project. I read an article or two with regards to PostgreSQL vs MySQL and there never seems to be a conclusion but rather a personal preference. For me, I think I will stay with PostgreSQL so here [...]
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Posted on June 3, 2007 by Christopher
Now that I have my Apache web server and Subversion up and running it’s time to install the Django Framework that I want to use to create the site (read previous posts if you have no clue what I am rambling about).
Django is a Python framework so we need to have Python installed. I [...]
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