Re: Design decision

2009-10-16 Thread Chip Grandits
I'm not sure if there is an exact technical defintion of the term 'bind' here. I am assuming you will need the two applications to share a common database? And I am assuming that other application has already been developed and deployed and so you are inclined to work around it? So this becomes m

Re: Template code runs in both branches of an if statement

2009-10-16 Thread Chip Grandits
Pete, I'm not completely familiar with you problem or what exactly 'get_latest' does. But my intuition is that you may wish to consider rewriting 'get_latest' to be more "lazy" If it is not exactly clear what I mean by that see Django online docs on lazy querysets e.g. http://docs.djangoproject.co

Should (or can) you have many to many relationship with abstract base class

2009-10-16 Thread Chip Grandits
I am fairly new to Django. I have a strong background in object oriented design, but only a shallow familiarity with relational database design. I am trying to develop my models and I have a sort of general philosophical question about what the ORM is capable of, and how it should be used. So l