Slides
I just finished my talk, which apparently included a bonus live transcript on IRC by Justin Lilly, and I think it went pretty well considering how much ground it had to cover and how nervous I was up until the moment when I started talking.
If you aren’t at PyCon, or if you are but didn’t come to the talk, or if you just want to download them and mash them up, my slides are online:
Since it includes several CC-licensed photos, and since I’m a fan of open access anyway, the slide deck is also Creative Commons licensed. Have at it.
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March 15, 2008
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Thanks I enjoyed reading those slides.
March 15, 2008
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Hey James, Can you post the slides from DB Journalism too?
-justin
March 16, 2008
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Great talk James! You’ve made me want to scrap everything I’ve done and start over. Thanks a lot. Seriously, you cleared up a lot regarding whether something should be in a separate app or not.
March 17, 2008
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I’m a bit disturbed that all these ‘best practice’ type idioms for Django are scattered all over the web, whereas the main Django website only contains things like the tutorial that leave you with messy projects (as mentioned in your slides). The main website definitely needs more in the way of “this is how you do it” type stuff, like these slides (but with detail).
Also, are these files served from amazon s3? It took several hours to download a 1MB file and stalled numerous times (had to restart the download more than five times).
March 17, 2008
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james, not this is a great pdf. I’m a huge proponent of reusable apps but I kept getting stuck with having to fork the app because of custom biz requirements in not only the forms but also the models.
the process_form(..) solution and the default template template_name=’do_form.html’ solution are two huge prereqs I’m going to be looking for, or submitting to the django apps I do use.
but now what about models? I was wondering about extending models via c# like partials in python, but I believe get we’re going to be getting model inheritance in the near future in django which would be a terrific solution for this issue.
to really get extensible, reusable apps we’ll need the ability to extend not only the forms but models as well, of course.
great points all around, and look forward to your book.
March 19, 2008
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Wish I’d seen the talk, the slides are great. Next year, maybe.