Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-07 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:40:03AM +0100, Chris G wrote: > On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:47:49AM +0530, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > > On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 10:00 +0100, Chris G wrote: > > > > this is as simple as it gets > > > > https://bitbucket.org/lawgon/django-addition/overview > > > > > > Too sim

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-07 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 11:40 +0100, Chris G wrote: > > https://bitbucket.org/lawgon/django-addition/wiki/Home > > Ah, OK, I did look around for some instructions but didn't find them. > Thank you, I'll go and play some further! :-) I have put the instruction on the front page - thanks for the h

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-07 Thread Chris G
On Fri, Oct 07, 2011 at 11:47:49AM +0530, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 10:00 +0100, Chris G wrote: > > > this is as simple as it gets > > > https://bitbucket.org/lawgon/django-addition/overview > > > > Too simple for me, it doesn't run. > > > > chris$ python manage.py

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-06 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Thu, 2011-10-06 at 10:00 +0100, Chris G wrote: > > this is as simple as it gets > > https://bitbucket.org/lawgon/django-addition/overview > > Too simple for me, it doesn't run. > > chris$ python manage.py runserver > Error: No module named addition.addnums you did not follow the

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-06 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 10:09:05AM +0100, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: >Chris - >The only thing I can say, is that you've been given some really good >advice on this thread so far. Yes, I'm not complaining at all, the feedback has all been very helpful. I'm just rather im

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-06 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Chris - The only thing I can say, is that you've been given some really good advice on this thread so far. These lists are really meant to be a "nudge in the right direction" rather than a "fully fledged training experience" [1]. There are plenty of django projects on Github which show a fully w

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-06 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 01:14:37AM -0700, Daniel Roseman wrote: > On Wednesday, 5 October 2011 20:55:33 UTC+1, Chris Green wrote: > > I'm an experienced programmer (started around 1971 or so!) and I've done > lots of things over the years, much of my background is in Unix > (So

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-06 Thread Chris G
On Thu, Oct 06, 2011 at 11:01:13AM +0530, kenneth gonsalves wrote: > On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 23:02 +0100, Chris G wrote: > > OK, so there isn't a single simple answer. However it would still be > > really nice to see a complete two or three page django site with a > > database behind it fully implem

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-06 Thread Kevin
For that it's worth, I deploy my Django projects using Nginx and FastCGI. I find this solution to be working rather nicely, Nginx takes care of serving all the static content really fast and passes the app requests to Django. It's really quick and easy to set-up too. I prefer Nginx as I can bett

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-06 Thread Daniel Roseman
> > On Wednesday, 5 October 2011 20:55:33 UTC+1, Chris Green wrote: > I'm an experienced programmer (started around 1971 or so!) and I've done > lots of things over the years, much of my background is in Unix (Solaris). > In the last few years I have done quite a lot of web related stuff. > > I'm

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 23:02 +0100, Chris G wrote: > OK, so there isn't a single simple answer. However it would still be > really nice to see a complete two or three page django site with a > database behind it fully implemented as an example. > > this is as simple as it gets https://bitbucket.

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Kurtis Mullins
I just wanted to put my 2 cents in. #django on Freenode is a great place to get real-time help with simple questions. On Oct 5, 2011, at 6:02 PM, Chris G wrote: > On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:35:49PM -0400, Peter Herndon wrote: >> >> On Oct 5, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Chris G wrote: >>> >>> However tw

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 04:35:49PM -0400, Peter Herndon wrote: > > On Oct 5, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Chris G wrote: > > > > However two rather basic things still elude me:- > > > >Where/how do I actually start creating the top level/page of a web > >site? Do I just open vi and create some HT

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 03:02:13PM -0500, Javier Guerra Giraldez wrote: > On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Chris G wrote: > > I'm trying to get my mind round django.  I have it installed on my > > unbuntu server, it works, I've worked through tutorials 1 and 2 and a > > bit of 3.  I can get the adm

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:02:03PM +0300, Yaşar Arabacı wrote: >This documentation goes over deployment of >django: [1]https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/howto/deployment/ > Ah, brilliant, thanks, that certainly answers my question about how to use it with apache. -- Chris Green --

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Chris G
On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 08:58:10PM +0100, Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] wrote: >Hi Chris, >I'm assuming that you don't have any experience with Python?? No/yes, I *do* have Python experience, it's my language of choice for scripts which require a bit more than basic shell scripting.

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Peter Herndon
On Oct 5, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Chris G wrote: > > However two rather basic things still elude me:- > >Where/how do I actually start creating the top level/page of a web >site? Do I just open vi and create some HTML and embed django >code? That seems unlikely but I can't see anywhere

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 3:20 PM, Ivan Ivanov wrote: >> about how to write, check the paragraph about the MTV architecture: > > If you are familier with MVC (Model, View, Controller), MTV is the same > but with different component names. sorry, but no. a Django view is way different from an MVC vi

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Ivan Ivanov
На Wed, 5 Oct 2011 15:02:13 -0500 Javier Guerra Giraldez написа: > about how to write, check the paragraph about the MTV architecture: If you are familier with MVC (Model, View, Controller), MTV is the same but with different component names. -- You received this message because you are subscr

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Javier Guerra Giraldez
On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Chris G wrote: > I'm trying to get my mind round django.  I have it installed on my > unbuntu server, it works, I've worked through tutorials 1 and 2 and a > bit of 3.  I can get the admin screens up and the basics of the polls > example work. just finish the tutor

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Yaşar Arabacı
This documentation goes over deployment of django: https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/howto/deployment/ 2011/10/5 Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd] < cal.leem...@simplicitymedialtd.co.uk> > Hi Chris, > > I'm assuming that you don't have any experience with Python?? > > Also - have you read th

Re: Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Cal Leeming [Simplicity Media Ltd]
Hi Chris, I'm assuming that you don't have any experience with Python?? Also - have you read the intro overview, as that pretty much answers your questions, unless I'm missing something https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3/intro/overview/ Cal On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 8:55 PM, Chris G wrote: >

Beginner a bit lost - need some pointers please

2011-10-05 Thread Chris G
I'm an experienced programmer (started around 1971 or so!) and I've done lots of things over the years, much of my background is in Unix (Solaris). In the last few years I have done quite a lot of web related stuff. I'm trying to get my mind round django. I have it installed on my unbuntu server,