Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-21 Thread SteveB.
Hi Bradley, Just my 2c re feeling comfortable with how django does things:- A high level walkthrough of which bits of Django are used and how they fit together. 1. You define the URL's that you want to present via a web server in urls.py. 2. In the urls.py file you configure url's and map these

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-20 Thread drygal
I think I was in a similar position not so long ago. It all makes more sense if you get familiar with all functionalities used by or similar to those used by Django. I have played with other template frameworks, sqlalchemy and mod_wsgi, I was aslo writing own classes for handling forms etc. separat

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-20 Thread derek
On Jul 19, 1:19 am, Martin Tiršel wrote: > On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:50:14 +0200, derek wrote: > > More complex or more detailed?  (I would argue that The Django Book is > > about as high quality as you are ever going to get for a free > > tutorial) > > > Try:http://www.hoboes.com/NetLife/pytown

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-18 Thread Martin Tiršel
On Fri, 09 Jul 2010 16:50:14 +0200, derek wrote: More complex or more detailed? (I would argue that The Django Book is about as high quality as you are ever going to get for a free tutorial) Try: http://www.hoboes.com/NetLife/pytown/django-beyond-sql/ or: http://opensourcebridge.org/20

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-09 Thread derek
On Jul 9, 12:29 am, Martin Tiršel wrote: > On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:23:53 +0200, Bradley Hintze   > > wrote: > > I guess I just don't like the model.py, views.py, templates, and > > url.py. In the tutorial you have to edit all of these and THEN you get > > something that you can send to the client.

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-08 Thread Martin Tiršel
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:23:53 +0200, Bradley Hintze wrote: I guess I just don't like the model.py, views.py, templates, and url.py. In the tutorial you have to edit all of these and THEN you get something that you can send to the client. It's very confusing! How do they tie together? I probabl

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-08 Thread CLIFFORD ILKAY
On 07/08/2010 06:07 PM, Bradley Hintze wrote: Thanks, that helps but I wish Django had more tutorial than one. There is no shortage of Django tutorials and screencasts. Just Google for them. Showmedo.com, Vimeo, Blip.tv, and YouTube all have Django resources. -- Regards, Clifford Ilkay Dina

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-08 Thread Rolando Espinoza La Fuente
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Bradley Hintze wrote: > I guess I just don't like the model.py, views.py, templates, and > url.py. In the tutorial you have to edit all of these and THEN you get > something that you can send to the client. It's very confusing! How do > they tie together? I probably

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-08 Thread Bradley Hintze
Thanks man!! On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 6:11 PM, larsendt wrote: > Check out djangobook.com. It's a much longer tutorial, and really well > written. > > On Jul 8, 4:07 pm, Bradley Hintze wrote: >> Thanks, that helps but I wish Django had more tutorial than one. I >> seem to learn by example. I am tr

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-08 Thread larsendt
Check out djangobook.com. It's a much longer tutorial, and really well written. On Jul 8, 4:07 pm, Bradley Hintze wrote: > Thanks, that helps but I wish Django had more tutorial than one. I > seem to learn by example. I am trying to make an form for uploading > files but no matter how many times

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-08 Thread Bradley Hintze
Thanks, that helps but I wish Django had more tutorial than one. I seem to learn by example. I am trying to make an form for uploading files but no matter how many times I read the documentation I cant seem to get the form to the client, let alone how to store the file. Do you know how to get objec

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-08 Thread CLIFFORD ILKAY
On 07/08/2010 05:23 PM, Bradley Hintze wrote: I guess I just don't like the model.py, views.py, templates, and url.py. In the tutorial you have to edit all of these and THEN you get something that you can send to the client. It's very confusing! How do they tie together? I probably need to do the

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-08 Thread Bradley Hintze
I guess I just don't like the model.py, views.py, templates, and url.py. In the tutorial you have to edit all of these and THEN you get something that you can send to the client. It's very confusing! How do they tie together? I probably need to do the tutorial again. It seems to me getting info fro

Re: Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-08 Thread Daniel Roseman
On Jul 8, 6:43 pm, Bradley Hintze wrote: > Hi all > > I did the tutorial and I've spent the last two days in the > documentation trying, and failing, to figure out how to tie my model > to a view and ultimately a template that is served. The documentation > seems to do a lot of things (like write

Is Django right for what I am trying to do

2010-07-08 Thread Bradley Hintze
Hi all I did the tutorial and I've spent the last two days in the documentation trying, and failing, to figure out how to tie my model to a view and ultimately a template that is served. The documentation seems to do a lot of things (like write html) automatically which is not what I want (see htt