Articles in Django: Month archive for October, 2009
Topics related to the Django web development framework.
Infinite (Django) and Wordpress: A Comparison
Posted on October 28th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
Infinite, the Django application set (I don't want to say "application," because a Django site is actually a set of applications linked by a settings file) that runs infiniterecursion.ca is basically feature complete. This seems like a good time to step back again and consider what I've made.
LinkBacks and Search Added
Posted on October 26th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
Last night I added the last of the originally-planned features for the infiniterecursion.ca web site. The new features are the linkback system and a Search feature.
Trials with Javascript dialogs
Posted on October 13th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
The built-in Javascript dialogs, alert, confirm and prompt, give very limited possibilities for customization and they don't look pretty. This encourages increasing numbers of developers to use more feature-rich alternatives where the dialog is actually a piece of HTML document which given dialog-like behaviour using Javascript.
Django and AJAX
Posted on October 12th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
Topics:
jQuery,
AJAX
At the moment, Django does not heavily emphasize support for AJAX. Django does provide convenient serializers to exchange objects with the client in JSON or XML format, and of course it can easily send a response to a request in any format, so it certainly supports AXAJ, and JSON even when not running under Python 2.6 via the inclusion of simplejson in django.utils.