archive for August 2008

South Changes

With the launch of its own site - south.aeracode.org - and Andy McCurdy jumping in to help out, South has been making some good progress. We've made a few backwards incompatable changes, which while annoying will hopefully make things much easier in future.

Posted 30th August 2008 in Python, Django, and South, with 0 comments

Over The Hills And Far Away

For the next two weeks or so I'm helping Martin Smith do his Land's End to John O'Groats trip, and so I'll only have slow internets to communicate from. Still, you can read about our travels at the new, shiny, lejog blog.

Posted 12th August 2008 in Life, with 0 comments

South, version 0.2

After the initial release some time last week, and a generally positive reaction, South now has a 0.2 release.

The most important (and only major) change is the addition of MySQL support, so the other section of Django users can finally give it a try. There's also the ability to create all models' migrations at once.

Posted 9th August 2008 in Python, Django, and South, with 0 comments

Dual Django Version Fun

With the recent massive changes to Django trunk - newforms-admin being the biggest - I've found a need to run both oldforms-admin and newforms-admin versions in both development and production; here's a quick HOWTO on both.

Posted 8th August 2008 in Python, and Django, with 0 comments

Introducing South

Tired of having to drop tables to re-syncdb your django models? Django-evolution not working, or too magic? Then I have just the solution; my newest project, South; intelligent migrations for Django projects.

Posted 7th August 2008 in Python, Django, and South, with 0 comments

Goodbye Wordpress, hello Django

While I have been a happy user of Wordpress for many years, it was about time I jumped ship and moved my blog to something that let me manage things like project lists more sanely, and so welcome to my new Django-powered blog.

Posted 5th August 2008 in Web Design, Python, and Django, with 0 comments