Tonight was the latest in a series of get togethers among Django developers in the Toronto area. We have been doing these for the past few months, since October 2008, and even though our numbers haven’t grown much, I am pretty sure there are other Djangonauts in Toronto who would be interested. We are planning to do monthly scheduled meetings with proper presentations at the Linux Caffe first Wednesday of every month. So join the mailing list and let’s start organizing!
For the past few months, I have been trying out the different schema migration tools for Django. At first, the obvious choice seemed like django-evolution. It was the oldest and the most mature project, and after watching the schema evolution panel from DjangoCon 2008, it was also the one that made most sense in terms of architecture. After working with django-evolution in a few projects though, I found that it did not work well in practice. I have recently been testing South, and it seems like the better choice.
Finally, Django’s recommended deployment method switched from mod_python to mod_wsgi. Updated docs are now online.
I love this - a list of popular typefaces grouped categorically in a periodic table format!
In the past few months, sorl.thumbnail has become one of the standard libraries I always include in my Django projects. It’s unobstrusive and very easy to implement into templates, but my one grief with it has been the lack of capability for doing some custom processing on images. As it turns out, sorl actually allows custom processors to be added. When I found out about this feature, I set out to write some for my current project.
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