Re: Hello!

2012-07-15 Thread Timothy Makobu
+1 On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:05 AM, Thomas Lockhart wrote: > On 7/14/12 12:04 PM, Shubz wrote: > >> Hi! I'm new to Python and Django. I feel like I'm jumping in deep end, >> but I have previous PHP and Java knowledge so what the hey. >> >> I was wondering if anybody could be kind enough to point

Re: Hello Django Warriors!

2012-07-15 Thread Timothy Makobu
Django Warr LOL! Have a look at Pinax http://pinaxproject.com/ On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Kurtis Mullins wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Kakar > > I'm very new to this Phyton and i just downloaded django package. What i >> wanted to ask was,..can i make a social site where

Re: Problem with named urls

2012-07-15 Thread Per-Olof Åstrand
On Sunday, July 15, 2012 3:03:44 AM UTC+2, Russell Keith-Magee wrote: > > > Hi Per-Olof, > > It looks like you have found a place in Django's documentation that > hasn't been updated to reflect a recent change to Django's URL tag. > [] > > I've opened ticket #18625 [1] to track this prob

Re: Is upgrading to a newer Django version generally hassle-free?

2012-07-15 Thread kenneth gonsalves
On Sat, 2012-07-14 at 13:38 -0700, Daniel Roseman wrote: > Django makes a fairly strong commitment to backwards compatibility > across versions, which is documented here: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/misc/api-stability/ > They guarantee that any documented api will only be deprecated wit

Hierarchy Model

2012-07-15 Thread Setiaman Lee
Hi, I want to implement hierarchy data model which is quite common in Relational Data Model. Let's say I have Employee model which has the relation to the boss which link to the employee model itself. It will look like this: class Employee(models.Model): empname = models.CharField(max_length

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread Nicolas Emiliani
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:58 AM, JJ Zolper wrote: > So heres my goal: > > The user logins in and goes to a discover page. They enter a distance from > their location as the requested results scope. Lets say 25 miles from where > I live for example. Additionally they could pick like a genre or mus

Re: Installing psycopg2 for PostGreSQL as django backend using virtualenv

2012-07-15 Thread Doug S
On Saturday, July 14, 2012 9:56:54 PM UTC-4, Doug S wrote: > > Hello django people, > I'm just installing my PostgreSQL backend for my django projects that I > install in isolated virtualenv's > I've followed what seem like easy installation instructions here: > http://initd.org/psycopg/install/

Re: Deployment: Apache2, wsgi (Debian squeeze)

2012-07-15 Thread Matt Smith
On 10/07/12 08:08, Rohan wrote: Hi Matt, If you do not have static serving enabled in your django application mapping to /static/ in urls.py, then the content is being served by Apache. In settings.py I commented out the lines which assign MEDIA_ROOT, MEDIA_URL, and ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX becaus

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread Markus Gattol
You can use geolocation https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/geolocation and if that's not accurate enough let the user provide his address and with it query Google's https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/geocoding API The tricky bit here is if you want to get the l

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread Markus Gattol
I can also recommend https://github.com/HPNeo/gmaps as a wrapper, speeds up and simplifies dealing with Google's API a lot. On Sunday, 15 July 2012 17:30:16 UTC+2, Markus Gattol wrote: > > You can use geolocation > https://developers.google.com/maps/articles/geolocation and if that's not > accu

Re: Hierarchy Model

2012-07-15 Thread Andre Terra
-- Sent from my phone, please excuse any typos. -- On Jul 15, 2012 11:02 AM, "Setiaman Lee" wrote: > Hi, > > I want to implement hierarchy data model which is quite common in > Relational Data Model. > > Let's say I have Employee model which has the relation to the boss which > link to the employ

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread JJ Zolper
Now that you mention it I like this idea a lot better! Okay I've changed my mind. My goal is to have the user input their location and then from there I run that againist my database of artists and depending on the request show the artists that are in those respective areas. That's okay that yo

Re: Hierarchy Model

2012-07-15 Thread Andre Terra
I recommend using django-mptt. I can't link to it cause I'm writing on my phone, but it's easy to find it on Google. Also, your foreign key should target self rather than Employee, IIRC. Cheers, AT -- Sent from my phone, please excuse any typos. -- On Jul 15, 2012 11:02 AM, "Setiaman Lee" wrote

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread JJ Zolper
I've heard from many resources that Google Maps API is one of the main preferred options. Thanks for sharing what you use! What you have just explained seems to be a good option! Is the option to use latitude and longitude a very common one? I'm not as familiar as to which options of calculatio

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread JJ Zolper
I appreciate the input! I've given the whole GeoIP and geolocation idea some thought and for me I think I've decided for my desktop version to steer clear of those sort of options for the time being. Why? Well I want their to be extreme flexibility but also very accurate information. What do I m

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread JJ Zolper
Thanks for the tip! I will keep record of this! On Sunday, July 15, 2012 11:31:40 AM UTC-4, Markus Gattol wrote: > > I can also recommend https://github.com/HPNeo/gmaps as a wrapper, speeds > up and simplifies dealing with Google's API a lot. > > On Sunday, 15 July 2012 17:30:16 UTC+2, Markus Gat

RE: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread lacrymol...@gmail.com
It highly depends on what you want to do, the extension of the area you want to cover, and things like that. There's different projection systems for each area in the world, and making distance calculations on those projections is much faster than on global (lat lon) coordinates, but they're no

RE: Hierarchy Model

2012-07-15 Thread lacrymol...@gmail.com
Put 'Employee' or if that fails, 'appname.Employee' with the quotes, as a string literal, this works for self-reference and reference loops. -Mensaje original- De: Andre Terra Enviados: 15/07/2012 13:30:05 Asunto: Re: Hierarchy Model I recommend using django-mptt. I can't link to it

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread Nicolas Emiliani
What you have just explained seems to be a good option! Is the option to > use latitude and longitude a very common one? I'm not > as familiar as to which options of calculation have known to be the most > stable, usable, fast, or efficient. Or there is any common > knowledge about the such th

Re: Hierarchy Model

2012-07-15 Thread yarko
On Sunday, July 15, 2012 9:02:39 AM UTC-5, Setiaman wrote: > > Hi, > > I want to implement hierarchy data model which is quite common in > Relational Data Model. > > Let's say I have Employee model which has the relation to the boss which > link to the employee model itself. > It will look like

Re: Use Django to implement my GUI!

2012-07-15 Thread Eugène Ngontang
Hi all! Hope you still remember this post which helps dive into django. I have gone really ahead with my developments, and now i'm willing to make some optimization and have some few issues. I don't know if I should open a new thread for each one. You will tell me, but I prefered to do it here bec

Re: Catch or raise exception designissue

2012-07-15 Thread Andre Schemschat
Hey, thanks for your replies. so the general idea is to dont catch the 500's, if there really is an situation which shouldnt happen. Thats was my first thought too, so i think i will stick with that and just code defensivly with exception-raising, when critical situations appear :) On Saturday,

Re: Catch or raise exception designissue

2012-07-15 Thread Jani Tiainen
I think "letting to explode" is all about coloring the bike shed. It all depends on a API contract - if parameter is required (thus meaning missing it is a critical error) it should explode. In case of incorrect request I prefer to raise 400 (Bad Request) with some explanation what went wrong. Sin

RE: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread JJ Zolper
Well as far as what I want to do I explained that above. User requests in all directions a circle spanse of 25 miles i.e. and theres a return of artists in that area. As far as the area I want to cover I would like to start with the northern virginia area and expand from there. A goal set for t

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread JJ Zolper
Awesome sounds like lat long is the way to go to be able to cover the entire US. And yeah im pretty good at math thanks for the tip Ill work on that soon! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To view this discussion on the web visit

unable to override widget

2012-07-15 Thread Nicolas Emiliani
Hi! I'm trying to override the AdminFileWidget with no success. The idea is to get a thumbnail next to the uploaded files in a tabular view of the admin site. I did the following : class AdminImageWidget(AdminFileWidget): def render(self, name, value, attrs=None): -- Nicolas Emiliani Lo u

Re: unable to override widget

2012-07-15 Thread Nicolas Emiliani
Crap, hit the send key, there it goes. Sorry. Hi! > > I'm trying to override the AdminFileWidget with no success. The idea is to > get a thumbnail > next to the uploaded files in a tabular view of the admin site. I did the > following : > > class AdminImageWidget(AdminFileWidget): > def rende

satchmo and django-admin-tools

2012-07-15 Thread אברהם סרור
Hi, I'm trying to use django admin tools with satchmo, I installed satchmo in my dev machine and made a store with clonesatchmo.py after that the store seemed to be running fine, so I installed django-admin-tools using the instructions on their website but I didn't manage to make it work, I spe

Re: access the state of a Model object prior to it's modification ?

2012-07-15 Thread Jani Tiainen
Hi, How about telling us what are you trying to achieve by comparing to previous state of the object? On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 1:49 AM, Nicolas Emiliani wrote: > Hi, > > Is there a way to access the state of a Model object prior to it's > modification through a form ? > Kind of a nasty question

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread JJ Zolper
I'm also thinking since Northern VA is so big in terms of people if I get a good thing going here I can port that to other major cities but if I find a less server heavy method I can use that for smaller areas possibly. Not sure, I'll see. JJ On Sunday, July 15, 2012 1:22:10 PM UTC-4, Nicolas

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread JJ Zolper
By UTM do you mean Universal Transverse Mercator? Well hmm I'm not quite sure what issue i would run into with someone living on the edge of the zone. Typically this request is a one time thing. The request goes in and the person either is within (on the line inside) the boundary or they are ju

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread Jani Tiainen
Or if your database backend supports spatial fields, you can let the database to do the hard work and use Geodjango (built-in GIS extension) which supports spatial operations like query by distance within. I think most standard databases can do that (mysql, postgresql, sqlite, oracle) but I would

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread JJ Zolper
Yeah I'm trying to get GeoDjango set up as we speak. GeoDjango sounds awesome. I have postgresql and Im trying to install postgis but im getting this: jjz@jjz-Laptop:~$ wget http://postgis.refractions.net/download/postgis-1.5.2.tar.gz --2012-07-15 19:40:12-- http://postgis.refractions.net/dow

Re: Query Distance from User

2012-07-15 Thread Thomas Lockhart
On 7/15/12 4:41 PM, JJ Zolper wrote: Yeah I'm trying to get GeoDjango set up as we speak. GeoDjango sounds awesome. I have postgresql and Im trying to install postgis but im getting this: FIx your errors in the configure step before bothering to try building. In this case you need libxml2 insta

rpc4django : convert escaped unicode to characters for textarea

2012-07-15 Thread wgw
When an rpc json call returns escaped unicode from python (something like \u00e8), how do I decode in javascript those escaped characters? (Is it really as complicated as indicated here: http://www.rishida.net/tools/conversion/conversionfunctions.js) I tried the rpc functions at http://rpc4d

Re: clean up media file

2012-07-15 Thread ephan
Thanks, was looking for something like this. On Jul 14, 4:55 pm, -RAX- wrote: > Hi all, > > I am opensourcing a tool for cleaning all the media upload files. > It is basically browsing your DB and deleting all the media files which are > not linked by the DB. > > We implemented this tool since dj

Re: clean up media file

2012-07-15 Thread ephan
Thanks, was looking for something like this. On Jul 14, 4:55 pm, -RAX- wrote: > Hi all, > > I am opensourcing a tool for cleaning all the media upload files. > It is basically browsing your DB and deleting all the media files which are > not linked by the DB. > > We implemented this tool since dj

Re: access the state of a Model object prior to it's modification ?

2012-07-15 Thread Nicolas Emiliani
On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Jani Tiainen wrote: > Hi, > > How about telling us what are you trying to achieve by comparing to > previous state of the object? > > Well, the model has a boolean field called published, and a publish_date that gets set "automatically" when the user through the a

Re: Hierarchy Model

2012-07-15 Thread Setiaman Lee
Hi All, It works by blocking it with the single quote. :) Thanks for the help. Cheers, Setiaman On Jul 16, 2012 2:44 AM, "yarko" wrote: > > > On Sunday, July 15, 2012 9:02:39 AM UTC-5, Setiaman wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I want to implement hierarchy data model which is quite common in >> Relationa

Django Models: How to allow users to select an image from a choice of 3 pictures

2012-07-15 Thread croberts
I am familiar with the use of Field.choices for text. However, I'd like the same option for images. Is this possible? I want users to select one image from a list of 3 and be able to save this. They can later come back in and change it if they wish. I know that in order to save this, it mus

Re: Django Models: How to allow users to select an image from a choice of 3 pictures

2012-07-15 Thread Ivan Ivanov
На Sun, 15 Jul 2012 18:26:02 -0700 (PDT) croberts написа: > I am familiar with the use of Field.choices for text. > > However, I'd like the same option for images. Is this possible? I > want users to select one image from a list of 3 and be able to save > this. They can later come back in and