I’m not really sure how I missed out on this. The Pragmatic Programmers has a new offering of Pragmatic Screencasts that cover subjects such as Core Animation, Erlang, Ruby, Active Record, and Expression Engine. At $5 per episode it’s definitely a great buy. I just got the four episodes... read more

We appreciate all the submissions to the Win Cool Stuff Contest. All valid submissions will be recognized on future episodes. Our winners will have the option of appearing on the show to discuss their winning submission. In true Django fashion I created a Django application that was used to... read more

In this screencast I cover converting an existing application to the NewForms-Admin Branch of Django. We will cover hooking the NewForms-Admin into our urls.py module, extracting out the inner Admin class information into a NewForms-Admin class, handling the prepopulate_from, and organizing our admin class information into a separate... read more

Django Screencasts are now available in flash format at ShowMeDo. It took me a while to get everything working on their end, but Ian and team have been wonderful and quite helpful. Speaking of ShowMeDo, they have a bunch of Python and Django videos as well as others. Great... read more

In this screencast I cover how to implement application based settings in a way that keeps the application pluggable. Watch this screencast and learn more. Now available in an Ogg/Theora format! MP4 Edition`_``*` (14.1 MB, 9:00, H.264, MP4) OGG Edition (14.7 MB, 9:00, Theora, OGG) IPod... read more

In this screencast I cover how to map specific URLs to the Flatpages contrib. There are times when you want the advantages and flexibility of flatpages, but also do not want URL mapping to be open ended and are uncomfortable with the fallback middleware approach. Watch this screencast... read more

In this screencast I cover NewForms Personalization. Often you have a drop down or some other field in your NewForm that you need to have personalized, or changed based on the logged in user or other instance criteria. This screencast will show you how to accomplish that in your... read more

I mentioned in the Django Screencast that I would be putting together a cheatsheet on Django’s custom management commands, so here it is. I hope you find it useful. |image1| ... read more

In this screencast I cover adding custom management commands into your Django applications. Custom management commands are a method of extending Django’s built-in commands that are made available through the manage.py or django-admin.py scripts. Source code for the screencast is provided below. Please be sure to read the README... read more

In this screencast I cover implementing model based feeds using the syndication framework. We’ll start where we left off last time and enhance our simple blogging application by adding feeds for individual sections of the website. We will walk through modifications to the urls.py, implementation of a model based... read more