Looking for an alternate to django-imagekit.
django-imagekit with django-cumulus causes loads of timeout issues and makes apps very inconsistent.
Are there any alternatives that you can suggest that you have used in your previous projects?
Easy-thumbnails seem to be the de-facto standard these days
http://github.com/SmileyChris/easy-thumbnails
Well, sorl was pretty good, but looks dead now. Maybe there's some actively developed fork somewhere.
Also, checkout Django Packages, i'm sure you'll find useful code.
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I was looking for a tagging/categorization app for a Django project. In past I have used django-tagging and django-taggit. Looks like they are not being actively maintained. I also saw a few others but they are either unmaintained of don't really reach the functionality of these two.
The kind of project I was working on for past year did not require tagging like functionality therefore I am out of touch in this area.
So before starting on writing my own app I thought, I would ask the mighty Stackoverflow community if there are any maintained forks of these apps or if there others similar to them.
Thanks in advance.
I've used both on different projects, too with different Django versions. There are some forks to. For instance, for django-tagging there is django-tagging-ng that provides multilingual, synonyms and hierarchy.
I would simply refer to opencomparison for package comparisons of django apps here - http://django.opencomparison.org/grids/g/tagging/
And I would go with django-tagging and add in django-tagging-ext optionally.
Is this what you are looking for?
https://github.com/bkjones/django-taxonomy
Hi everyone
I am currently using django notification and I realize there are 5 views available.
I was wondering whether there are any examples on the templates for these views.
Is this app dead? Why are there so few docs?
This is somewhat late, but perhaps useful for other people. There are examples for the various views in pinax, so for instance for notice_settings.html:
https://github.com/pinax/pinax/blob/master/pinax/themes/default/templates/notification/notice_settings.html
UPDATE: Since Pinax removed their themes, the last checkin with templates can still be found at:
https://github.com/pinax/pinax/tree/7f5c31fbcf455767dc7bc79a53be39038e00786f/pinax/themes/default/templates/notification
The app doesn't seem to be dead, the last modification was in September. It is not highly maintained either, though.
I don't know if you've seen usage.txt, but it seems that this one explains how the app works. I've seen worse documented apps.
I had this idea of creating desktop apps using django. The principe being:
- Write the django app, and use something like cherrypy to serve it.
- Write a Qt app in C++ to access it and this by using QtWebview (webkit)
I'd like to "bundle" this in a single app. The lighter, the better :)
So here are my questions and if you have better ideas and suggestions, please
share them :)
Is it possible to serve a django app with a c++ one? (a c++ server embedding python)?
anyone did this before? Do you have some articles, blog posts?
Thanks a lot!
Django has it's own server. Why involve CherryPy?
You're creating a hellaciously complex architecture for no recognizable purpose. Your comments are almost impossible to parse in the context of your question. Please consider rewriting the question to address your actual concerns with an actual thing you actually wrote.
"I ... used pywxiwdgets in the past and it was SLOW"
There are many of desktop frameworks. Use another one.
Don't introduce Django -- it's for web applications, not desktop applications. The overhead of messing with Django and CherryPy is silly.
Find the original reason for SLOW. I'll bet it was database slowness from using SQLite. If not that, I'll bet it was a poor data model. If not that I'll be it was poor use of the pywxwidgets. If not that, I'll bet your desktop app made internet connections that were slow. Indeed, I'd bet that almost any part of your app was the culprit and making a super-complex architecture will not make things faster, just more complex.
Until you identify -- and measure -- the original cause for slowness, you're not actually solving the actual problem you actually had.
Look at http://www.python-camelot.com/
It says "A python GUI framework on top of Sqlalchemy and PyQt, inspired by the Django admin interface."
Pyjamas Desktop can probably be integrated with Django. And there's no need for C++. It currently uses pywebkitgtk, but I don't think there's any real reason why it couldn't use PyQt4 instead with a bit of work.
Use PyQt or PySide instead of C++.
you can use electron-api-demos this opensource
and Now this technology is considered the bright generation, so one of the most famous people who used it is YouTube and Visual Studio Code
https://github.com/electron/electron-api-demos
Does anyone here use django-grappelli here ?
I would like to read some experience of developers or users, if there are common mistake to avoid or why you use or do not use grappelli.
Thanks for sharing
I'm using grappelli as well. I'd be content with django's normal admin, but if you need to present the backend to someone else grappelli is much more appealing.
The current grappelli version 2.1 is working quite good with django 1.2. The only problems you(sometimes) run into is that 3rd party apps have sometimes some problems, which you can solve in most cases quite easily with changing the custom templates they are coming with (in most cases it's just other names for css classes etc, sometimes there are some js incompatibilities as well, which you can solve easily!
The actual version of grappelli also has a nicer html/css framework which enables you to easily use their styles/ui elements in your own templates. Have a look at http://grappelliproject.com/ for that (it's not totally valid for the actual version but gives you a small impression on what to expect!)
According to the developers, grappelli should soon work together with the marvellous django-admin-tools,which offer you drop down menus within the admin and a customizable index dashboard! Installation is not quite complicated, just do not forget to pass the adminmedia folder to manage.py! All in all I think it's quite recommendable (also check out django-filebrowser and medman if you dont know them yet, which come from the same developers and work very well together with grappelli)!
I have used Grappelli several places and suggest using it, if you are using admin for anything more than a "database debugging" purpose.
From django 1.1.1 onwards, you can create multiple instances of admin, so generally, I keep the main admin to examine the data as it is, and another instance of it for using purpose, with grappelli.
A minor issue is that,
On the dev server, it is hard to ask django to use a different admin media folder, and the easiest way is to use the command line parameter, as it is documented.
I started using django-grappelli recently and will like to point out 2 cases that newbies like me have a high chance of wasting time on:
For Django==1.6, use grappelli==2.5 and not the current latest 2.6. Also for Django==1.5/1.4 use grappelli==2.4.The official docs clearly mention it but many may overlook it and later wonder why it is not working.
In INSTALLED_APPS setting, if grappelli is not placed above django default apps it will not work. I used to think that order is not of importance for INSTALLED_APPS but this made me change my mind.
Hi All I am new on Django and python.I want to wirte program with Django .So please share me useful ideas and concept.How can I set up djanog in my window OS.
I little confuse and occur some errors while I read ebooks.
Share me with all experiences please in step by step.
Thank for all
http://www.djangobook.com is your friend. Free, well written and generally ace.
First, if you're new in python read dive into python, you must use python 2.5 or 2.6 not 3 (for django at least)
For windows here's a good tutorial. Then read the djangobook
For further information you can read Pro Django
And remember the oficial docs is very well written.
This may help you to start
This is great resource for you Getting Started with Django
Enjoy.
The first thing you should do is get yourself a project, it can be anything. The classic django-learning project is a blog.
Python is fairly easy to learn once you have some programming experience. I recommend that you go through the official tutorial. This google class also looks pretty good. You don't need to know the standard library all that much -- just enough python to find your way around whenever you need something. I'd say you can pick up python in a few afternoons of work.
After that, go through the django tutotial to get an idea of how to get started. Then start with your project using the docs which are quite good. They also contain an overview and installation section which may be handy. After you've gotten your feet wet, read the django book and then go fix all the things that could be better about your project.
Just like with any kind of programming, the key is to be constantly practicing and improving your code.