Sunday, May 11th
After a week or so of planning and three weeks of development, a group of students and
I have created Business Proposal Management System, a PHP application to enable a venture
capital fund to collect business proposals and have its managers delegate reviews of them
to analysts. This was my first project for a customer and taught me a great deal about
working closely in a team with other developers, medium-scale application development in
PHP, and project management. I'm very proud of the final result of our work, but am now
considering re-implementing the design in Django. Venture capital funds ...
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Monday, March 10th
If you're one of the three people that has ever taken a look at vcBlog, you probably
realize that there's about six posts missing. Like I alluded to in the first 0.2 post,
they went missing in the course of MySQL surgery necessary as a result of adding another
model to my application--specifically, one with a many-to-many field. An entry has
multiple tags, a tag can be applied to multiple entries, so... Anyway, those entries that
have gone missing could all have been sitting in a pretty JSON file, had I used
manage.py's dumpdata
function. In fact they ...
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Saturday, January 26th
That line comes from the 12th chapter of the Django book, and it refers to the way a website's users had been
considered in the previous 11 chapters. In chapter 12, the chapter on sessions, users and
registration, things get a little more personal. I flipped (browsed) to chapter 12 because
I will be adding in some features using these concepts in the coming future, but that is
not the point of this entry. The book is the point. The Django book, available in print
and online, is a well-written and understandable resource available to ...
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Friday, January 25th
Finally, after a few months of buildup, the entry you are reading right now is
dynamically generated using Django, a Python web programming framework. This blogging
application is called vcBlog, and uses only Django-generated SQL to access a PostgreSQL
DB. Look forward to more information about vcBlog and the process to create it, as well as
more information about the Django framework.
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