Re: cx_Oracle

2007-04-19 Thread ogghead
Zundra, I would recommend you use cx_Oracle 4.3.1 (released only yesterday), as it contains some significant fixes for LOB handling. The boulder-oracle-sprint branch is nearly complete...according to me and the other developer who've been working on it. We're using the code in production here f

Re: Django Hosting

2006-10-19 Thread ogghead
They're in Texas, not the UK, but here's another vote for webfaction.com. The limits on long-running processes Chris sites below are quite fair for webhosts I've looked at, and you can set up Rails/Mongrel in addition to Django, TurboGears, subversion + Trac over https, really anything quite easi

Re: Django color picker -- ColorField?

2006-10-20 Thread ogghead
I would definitely use a Django "ColorField" type with a JavaScript editor. I currently do something similar in wxPython apps, using my own ColourGridCellEditor/Renderer classes. We store colors in the database as CHAR(11) RGB strings: "204,153,102". Perhaps you could subclass Django's CommaSep

Re: Hand Count: How many Django users are there in Denver?

2006-11-09 Thread ogghead
I know there are several Django enthusiasts to your north in Boulder and Longmont--we hosted a sprint last Saturday to try to finish Oracle support for Django's database layer (almost there!). Undoubtedly there are also Django folks in Denver proper. There are many pythoneers up and down the Fro

Re: Status of Oracle support in Django (trunk?)

2006-11-17 Thread ogghead
Oracle support is working pretty well now. You can do everything in the tutorial and run most common django apps. Doing "python manage.py inspectdb" needs some work, as the column types in the Django model it returns aren't all correct. But Oracle passes 62 out of the 65 tests in the test suite

Daily Kos considering switch to python

2007-01-03 Thread ogghead
The extremely popular left-leaning political website, Daily Kos, is planning to dump their perl-based Scoop backend and start again. They need a highly customizable CMS or framework that can handle heavy loads. This would be an excellent opportunity for Django to be considered if we argue our c