Empty Thoughts

George says:

I just wanted to say great job on the screen cast! As a new Django developer, it is so beneficial to watch a project being built and hear the discussion behind it. I think this is the best way to bring new Django developers on board and walk them through some of the processes and teach them new tricks along the way. Keep up the good work and I’ll be watching.

Elus says:

BTW – it woud be great if there was special signal like “post_save” handling many-to-many relationship in django cause now you have to count article_set for every section every time you render the page. It isn’t especially efficient.

John M says:

Nice job, although on the medium version, the sound is quite muffled, did you know that?

Empty says:

John: I didn’t notice that. It sounds very clear for me. So that’s odd. I’ll take a look at it again.

Elus: The tag that I wrote wasn’t really for efficiency but really just to make it work. I would either de-normalize things a bit and store it in the save, like you’ve stated or more likely use the caching framework to handle it that way.

kevin says:

overall – good stuff! I do screen casts quite often and i know they are not easy to create :)

so please, keep up the good work.

Alexander says:

• added your atom feed in my Google Reader *

Empty says:

John, I listened again last night using cheap headphones and using really nice ones and both sounded fairly clear to me. I wonder if it was a bandwidth issue. Perhaps if you try to download the file and play it locally it will correct the problem. Thanks for the information.

Leon says:

nice screencast! looking forward to the next :-)

matt says:

Thanks for the screencast, what textmate theme are you using?

Empty says:

matt: I’m using this one that Ryan Bates put together and is available here: http://railscasts.com/about

I usually use Vibrant Ink (http://alternateidea.com/blog/articles/2006/1/3/textmate-vibrant-ink-theme-and-prototype-bundle) but I was having problems with the mouse disappearing through the screen capture program.

John says:

Thank you!! The screencast was brilliant. I doubt I’ll ever add a blog to my site, but your clean, logical presentation was very illuminating. It is so helpful to be able to “look over your shoulder” while the pieces are put into place. I look forward to the coming installments.

For me file size is not a problem…

Ryan says:

Wow, I love these things. I sit and develop in Rails when I’m bored and I’ve always thought… geez, the Django community needs some of this love. And what do you know… it’s now here.

Keep rockin! :)

NiCoS says:

Hi,

I really enjoyed the screencast. The only question is have is where you set the “obj” to habe obj.title obj.body_html working ? Per default, I thought it was “object” and in your screencast, I did not see where you set that object name will be “obj” (or I missed it…)

Thanks in advance, Nicolas

Empty says:

Nicolas,

Read through this section: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/syndication_feeds/#a-simple-example

The object passed into context is called obj. It’s inconsistent with the stuff that comes from the Generic View, so that’s probably where your confusion is.