Ross Poulton

In my recent catchup blog post I mentioned in passing a few projects including Jutda and WhisperGifts.

I've had a very busy few months in every way conceivable - everything from my Django projects, to my day job, to life as a whole has been running in fast-forward.

On most of the websites that I've built with Django, I have had a desire to be able to manage little elements of the website from the Django administration screen without having to touch my templates.

I've spent the last year or so building a Django-powered bridal gift registry service.

After some e-mail discussions with Jacob Kaplan-Moss from the Django team, I've moved all of the sites listed on the old DjangoPoweredSites wiki page to Djangosites.org.

Every time I send e-mail with Django I seem to do it slightly differently, especially when it comes to sending HTML-based emails.

In these days of cheap domains, it's often desirable to own multiple domains for a single website.

Scott Barnham, one of the guys behind the recently-launched Django Gigs website, has posted some statistics from visitors to the Gigs website over the past few days.

NOTE: This code is now outdated, and it's certainly not the best way to do OpenID in Django.

It all starts when John hits your website and clicks the big 'Register' link.

I've just approved another batch of sites bringing the total to 260.

Last week I launched djangosites.org, a new website to show off other websites built with Django.

Until now, if you wanted to see a few sites that were built with Django you had to wade through a list of a few hundred links on a wiki page.

First things first: Get an API key from bluga.net by signing up for an account.

I married by lovely wife on March 31st of this year.

As a part of my previously mentioned upcoming bridal gift registry project (which, by the way, performed outstandingly in it's most important private beta ever - my own wedding) I'm giving each user (in this sense, a user is a couple close to getting marr…

When you run a Django powered website with debugging turned off, whenever a condition happens that would cause a HTTP 500 Error (such as an uncaught exception), the administrators receive an e-mail with a traceback and other relevant details to help debug…

Next month, I'm getting married.

I currently manually review and delete comment spam every few days.

The solution I chose in the end was Speller Pages, a very simple javascript-driven user interface with a number of different server-side options, each using the GNU Aspell application to do the actual spell checking.

This rant bought to you by yet another unfinished project.

Django has some cool forms management functionality that takes the hard work out of displaying forms and managing the users input.

I've made some minor changes to my website over the past few days in an effort to make life easier: Added a 'summary' to each blog item, meaning the RSS feed doesn't fill up the Django website, and my front page stays clean Changed to a template sourced f…

So you've got an application written in Django that needs to send large bodies of e-mail, but you don't want the e-mail message itself to be in your Python code.

I've had a number of e-mails about how I include the listing of blog tags and archives by month on the side of my website from people who have obviously built up a blog and now want further integration with their website.

At the start of May, the Django magic-removal branch was merged with 'trunk' - the mainstream Django code base.

A week or so ago I received an e-mail from a nice new zealander, Simon Greenhill, alerting me to a cross-site scripting vulnerability in the comments portion of my blog.

I've just upgraded Django to the new Magic-Removal code base which is now a part of the core Django distribution.

NOTE: The Python code in this tutorial no longer works with Django!

I've just put the rest of the Engagement Party photos online.

NOTE: The Python code in this tutorial no longer works with Django!

On Sunday afternoon Lauren and I had our Engagement party to celebrate with friends & family our recent engagement.

I've just put parts of my photo gallery back online, using a new gallery application I wrote in Django.

NOTE The Python code in this tutorial no longer works with Django!

Two links I try and use regularly are sources of free web templates, and free stock photography. stock.xchng is a website that has over 180000 photos, of everything you could imagine.

Until last week I had never heard of Django, a web framework written in Python.

I've just written this quick weblog app using Django - a new(ish) web framework written in Python.