Jonathan@BluMarble

Django comes equipped with a very powerful set of shell commands accessible via the manage.py file in each of your django projects. These are few that I use relatively often as required. All the descriptions and commands have been extracted via ./manage.py –help, run the command from the terminal for a full list of subcommands.

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Here are two python wallpapers to spruce up you desktop, both are compliments of www.openpc.com

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It comes in very handy to be able to evaluate the exact type of a variable in Python and most other programming languages for that matter. Although it is possible to test the type in two different way, which I will demonstrate, I almost always use the second option. The problem with the first one is that the string ‘1′ can be converted to an int by using int(1), which make the method useless for testing dict or list types.

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These a few of my favourite django snippets available on www.djangosnippets.org . If you’re not using Django Snippets yet, you could be wasting precious time.

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It is with a sore heart that I handed in my resignation at Prop Data today. I have been fortunate to have been part of the Prop Data team for the last year and a half and have learnt more in my term with them than I imagined possible.

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