Articles in October 2007

Django Signals Vs. Custom Save()-Method 45

Published October 29, 2007 Filed unter: Django

The more I read about Django signals (didn't set up one yet), the more I wonder where the difference between a post_save or pre_save signal and the redefinition of the save-method is.

Background Knowledge

In case you know what signals are and you know what I mean with ...

Adding Archives Information Via Django Templatetag 43

Published October 28, 2007 Filed unter: Django, Usability, Web standards

It is quite typical for Wordpress-blogs to have all archives in the sidebar. For example "August 2005, September 2005", all linked back to the archives pages. Django, sadly, doesn't have something by default to generate these archive links dynamically.

There is another reason, why people, should want this ...

Markdown With Syntax Highlighting In Django 12

Published October 27, 2007 Filed unter: Django, Python

These days I wrote my first Django project (you are currently browsing it). Of course I wanted to post entries into this blog with code snippets. To make the reading experiance better for my readers I decided to use a syntax highlighter. You find thousands of them around the WWW ...

Breadcrumbs In Django With Templates 81

Published October 25, 2007 Filed unter: Django, Usability

One great feature of a well-structured website is the navigation bar or location bar, better known as breadcrumbs. It always tells the user, where exactly s/he is currently on the website. (On the website you are currently browsing it is located above the footer, called "Your way".)

As a ...