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Some days ago, after the merge of qs-rf to trunk, model field i18n was in trouble, so the principal package for this approach (django-multilingual) stopped working for the latest version of trunk.

I'm pleased to announce a new project, django-stdimage, that provides a new image field with many improvements respect to Django's core ImageField.

I know that the post title looks like a dummy tutorial, but actually it's more a bug report.

One of the key websites about Django is Django Snippets, by one of the key Django developers, James Bennett.

When working on multilanguage sites, a feature that many times I missed is a direct way to change the language when you're on the admin, With standard Django the only way that exists (as far as I know), is leaving the admin, going to the website, change t…

I know that it was just few days ago that I released another version of DSNP, but because of it, I got a lot of feedback on it, I worked hard, and finally DSNP is stable.

I've been working with Django for a while, and it helped me to get all my web developments with nice urls.

DSNP is a simple and customizable Python script, that automatically creates a working Django project.

This Sunday, I participated in This Week in Django, and tried to give some ideas on Django localization.

Today, I'm proud to announce the new version of the Accopensys website.

Six months ago, I decided to create the Django Catalan usergroup, for user in Catalonia, and for users who speak catalan.

Today I had another encoding problem in my life...

Today I've released a new version of TransDb, the Django package that allows storing text at database in more than one language (using the same field).

It's not a big trouble, but I wanted to remove the /media/ prefix on all my media links, like... and so on.

I wanted to assign an image to every element in a model.

Today I've created my own code for having (in Django) fields in more than one language stored in database.

Sometimes I forget that django's settings.py is a Python script, and not a plain configuration file.

Here is a brief list of common web features, and the best way I know for achieving it in Django: - Breadcrumbs: use {{ block.super }} for recursive link inheritance [more info] Back button: use {{ request.META.HTTP_REFERER }} for linking to referring URL…

In less than two weeks I'll go back to The Gambia, this time with two friends.

Some weeks ago I started learning Chinese.

DSNP is a shell script that automatically setups a new Django project, with user custom settings.

Kimmi supporters have waited long for it, but this evening (in Europe time), the unluckier Formula 1 pilot had a lucky strike and has won 2007 Formula 1 Worlds Championship.

Today, this blog has reached page view number 2.000.

Today has been committed to Django trunk version spanish localflavor patch.

After some delays, and some lack of official information, today I finally realized that Apple's new operating will be released on Friday October 26th.

Browsing the Internet I've seen an interesting graphic about how many doctors has every country for how many people.

DSNP is a shell script that automatically creates Django's new projects.

I often check Google Video for conferences about technologies, trends, or anything about IT.

A new Django community has been created for Django users/developers that speak Catalan, or live in Catalonia.

Some months ago Google announced that they were working to add presentations to its Google Applications suite.

Django sprint has finished, but not Django work.

It will be obvious for returning visitors, but I've changed this blog design.

On September 14th it is scheduled a Django Sprint, for reducing tickets, and try to get a new release soon.

Most people already realized that nowadays our society is governed by information most than by economy itself, and that means an evolution from industrial age to information age.

Browsing the internet I've found an interesting initiative, some kind of enterpreneurs event for people in Barcelona area.

After installing django, and running with apache, next error could appear: Looks like your browser isn't configured to accept cookies.

There are always incredible things on news about spanish “justice”, government… Last one is that a famous humor magazine has been banned.

Django i18n is really good, but an important feature is missing... a very simple way (for users) for translating database stored labels.

Django is a very powerful and very well done Web framework, but some things are missing - in my opinion -.

For converting a simple computer with two interfaces (or more) in a router, it's necessary just to type two sentences in a console: echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip-forward iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o -j MASQUERADE

Today I've installed a new WordPress plugin, to avoid robots write comments on this page.

Today I've discovered that SourceForge.net is offering Subverion control system.

Many times, specially when writing web pages, you have to deal with texts with different encodes (if web site isn't in us-ascii, of course).

Due to many problems with blogger, finally I've changed this host placeholder.

Both UNIX commands are used to set permissions, chmod is for changing permissions of a specific file, and umask is for setting default creation permissions for a user.

I've spent too much time searching for an application that allows me downloading all files (all pages, images...) from a web site.

Probably this post would never be in any top 10, or appearing in any IT magazine, but after few weeks we already have a PageRank #2, and we are appearing in Technorati.

When developing web pages is essential having a good set of firefox extensions.

Today I've found something very funny; I just want to share with you...

Sometimes it's useful allowing users to execute programs reserved for root.