The Daily Build

Thanks for your patience, and for coming back for a discussion of deploying our Django web app. In case you missed any of the previous posts in this series, here they are: Day One, Get Ready (Concept and prep) Day Two, Mockups (Creating a design) Day Three, Coding (Coding tests, views, templates, and models) Pre-Deployment [...]

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Thanks for coming back for Day Three! [Note: Sorry this post is a day late. It was all ready to go late yesterday, but some of the code included below triggered a bug either in WordPress or ScribeFire and the whole post got mangled. I managed to resurrect it today from drafts, and I think [...]

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Welcome back. Ready for Day Two? Did you get your “hello world” app running on your host? Where We Stand Yesterday we nailed down our concept, bought a domain name and hosting, set up our toolkit, and deployed a practice app on the host. Here’s what I’m going to build: a web app to keep [...]

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This is the first in a series of posts that will walk through the steps of designing, building, and deploying a complete web app using Django. I’m going to assume you know the basics when it comes to Python, Django, HTML, CSS, Javascript and some basic tools. This will be a part time effort, so [...]

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The Dreamhost wiki article on Django helped, but all the steps starting from scratch aren’t really documented in one place. Hopefully the list below will help, but since I’m writing it after the fact and I had to go through a couple of iterations to get it right, there are probably some things that aren’t [...]

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