A quick tutorial on how to create some nifty currency and country select fields using WTForms. This was sort of a headache to figure out, which is why I’m sharing it. If you have a cleaner way to do this (particularly the country list), please comment, because I’m highly dissatisfied with hardcoding the countries and…
I probably should have known how to do this innately, it’s that simple, but I didn’t. So for the benefit of fellow feckless Pythonistas, here is how to sort a list of dictionaries based on a key in the dictionary. Say I have a list of dictionaries where each dictionary represents data for a person…
We had two problems to solve: we wanted to use fieldsets with Django forms, and the follow-up issue, making that custom rendering Jinja2-compatible. There are plenty of awesome libraries/snippets to display forms as fieldsets, including django-form-utils. I wanted a quick and dirty and method of doing this. So here it is: step 1, add a…
In his response to the Section 3.3.1 changes, Steve Jobs makes a very valid point that has been largely glossed over by the Apple vs Adobe narrative that is playing out on the web right now: We’ve been there before, and intermediate layers between the platform and the developer ultimately produces sub-standard apps and hinders…
A few interesting things have happened this past week that should remind us all of the perils of building your business on top of someone else’s platform: Fred Wilson’s recent post describing the future of the Twitter platform has left developers wondering if Twitter is going to integrate certain core features (URL shorteners, photo sharing…
My goal is to stop hating Django. Our team has been bouncing back and forth between using Django and Pylons for the creation of the web front end for ChompStack, a restaurant-oriented iPhone app site with an admin panel for easy data management. In the beginning, there was Django, and it was good. But gradually…
Note: this is just my personal list of apps I would actually be willing to pay for if someone built them. Some of these ideas may already exist in some form on the iPhone, but I think they would work much better with the iPad’s large touchscreen. A recipe manager I do a lot of…
I ran into this problem recently and found that the Django documentation wasn’t exactly clear on how to solve it, so I’ve provided an example in case anyone else needs to do the same thing. My goal was to add an extra form field to one of my model objects that represented a property which…
As usual, we’re learning together: today I decided that I would like to be able to play video in our Bazooka (PyClutter-based) framework, so I set out to write a Bazooka video class. The source code for Bazooka, including this video class, is in our git repository here. First, make sure you have PyClutter 0.9.2…
Bazooka is built on top of the Python bindings for the 0.9.2 version of the Clutter Toolkit, or whatever version the latest stable Python bindings are at. Occasionally I go trolling for additional Clutter links, and I thought I’d post a few of my finds here for easy access. Latest stable clutter docs Latest stable…
