I've had this code around for a while and had an opportunity to drag it out the other day and dust it off. The problem: Every now and again there's a situation where you don't really want to catch an exception, but you do want to perform ...

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:

1. Day One, Get Ready (Concept and prep)
2. Day Two, Mockups (Creating a design)
3. Day Three, Coding (Coding tests ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Jesse Noller has been republishing articles he wrote for Python Magazine. These are very informative: I learned new things about the "with" statement in python 2.5 and tonight I was introduced to Paramiko, a library for using SSH.

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 ...