[16:20] [djangoobie] anyone have tips on configuring DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE on windows 7 ( Read more... )

Recently I have been embroiled in debates on several fora on what exactly is contributing to open source and how to go about it. And there guys who are going around rating contribution as 'good' contribution and 'not good' or 'second rate' contribution. In one case the advice runs like this: look around on sourceforge etc for projects you like and ( Read more... )

frankly I am getting tired of fighting. Why do it? You do not get popular. People who you think are friends get bought off. You are villified for trying to enforce rules. Fortunately I am not standing for election in anything - so can go my own way. And I will cease fighting when they are lowering me into the grave - not before.

so finally the opposition got together to organise a transparent, democratic, community conference to expose foss.in. Support snowballed - then came a lowlife called Kalia - took a prominent role in the fledgling conference without a name, and then one fine day he defected to the other side. Boom - no conference. Lessons learnt ( Read more... )

an app I wrote back in 2007 and been meaning to release since then. Finally got down to upgrading it - needs work as I have learnt a lot since 2007 and django also has developed a lot. I hope I can get time to work on it. http://quadmulc.greenchilly.in - comments, criticism and testing

nice to see that the foss community of Bangalore has finally woken up and developed a backbone. All the best for the upcoming conference - if it takes place I will be there. More at http://fsck.in

well pycon india took place again. Audience up from 350 last year to 650 this year. Talks were better, organisation good, venue comfortable. We also had the first AGM of the Indian Python Software Society. It went well. It is a great achievement to carry on for 2 years in India without a single split, major fight or walk out. Probably because ( Read more... )

got bsnl 3G and managed to get it to work on fedora 12. It comes with software for linux - presumably written in shell or C, but behaves as if it is written in php by a baaad coder. It does not work. To make a long story short, fedora recognises it as a mass storage device. Actually there seem to be three devices there. So one needs to jump through ( Read more... )

django-addition has moved here: http://bitbucket.org/lawgon/django-addition/wiki/Home. Reason for the move is that livejournal is not very amenable to posting code.

For people coming from backgrounds of php or of application servers, the process by which django works is slightly puzzling. Maybe a simple tutorial that does the barest minimum would put them on the right path - so here is a attempt to do this wrt a thread that came up on the django-users mailing list. Comments ( Read more... )