Re: Short I hope explanation

2012-05-03 Thread Gerald Klein
Thanks for shout out. And I will move on to them, but I like to understand things the hard way first. I think it gives a strong foundation when you finally do move on to the time saver things. The thing is as I understand it, is that there are times that you will need to do things long hand. I woul

Re: Short I hope explanation

2012-05-03 Thread Kurtis Mullins
When I first dove into Django, everything was confusing. I can't say I ever used the book because I wanted to use class-based-views immediately (was recommended in IRC). They were confusing as could be, I constantly needed hand-holding, etc... Eventually, I started to understand things a bit more,

Re: Short I hope explanation

2012-05-03 Thread Gerald Klein
Good pick on the book, thanks. It is a lot more like what people need to pick something up. thanks --jerry On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Gerald Klein wrote: > > Hi, I have been through a couple of tutorials including the one on the >

Re: Short I hope explanation

2012-05-03 Thread Steve Kilbane
Hi Jerry. Not specifically related to queried result sets, but I've been struggling with class-based generic views (I assume that's what you're referring to), and I've posted some code in that thread, here: http://groups.google.com/group/django-users/browse_thread/thread/ccd74d137068193e steve

Re: Short I hope explanation

2012-05-02 Thread Gerald Klein
ok thanks I will give that a look. On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Joel Goldstick wrote: > On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Gerald Klein wrote: > > Hi, I have been through a couple of tutorials including the one on the > site, > > the one thing that the authors have in common is they seem to wa

Re: Short I hope explanation

2012-05-02 Thread Joel Goldstick
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 11:50 AM, Gerald Klein wrote: > Hi, I have been through a couple of tutorials including the one on the site, > the one thing that the authors have in common is they seem to want to jump > to the 'short cuts' to soon. I like to know the basic long hand version > first because

Short I hope explanation

2012-05-02 Thread Gerald Klein
Hi, I have been through a couple of tutorials including the one on the site, the one thing that the authors have in common is they seem to want to jump to the 'short cuts' to soon. I like to know the basic long hand version first because I want to understand. What I am having a problem with is gen