#django

anyone here whos company employed junior django developers?

After going through the tutorial and some of the additional reading, what should I start looking into? The documentation itself says that the intro section is mainly for getting a general feel of django... so what's good for diving in?

belak, http://twoscoopspress.com/pages/django-tutorials

ciurkut: thanks! That looks really useful.

belak, http://www.djangosites.org/with-source/

:p

hi, I've got a membership application written in django with mysql. What is the best system to run it on easily?

I have a recent ubuntu here.. not sure if I should install something else..

it'll only ever run in a lan

should I run it on debian or is there no difference?

blargh.

what's wrong with this field spec: `parent = models.ForeignKey('Section', blank=True, default=None)` ?

Do I need to add null=True?

shomon: there's hardly any difference between ubuntu and debian in that regard

anything I should watch out for maybe?

that's a relief.. save me installing this all over again :)

check that you run it with the right python version

okay, thanks

In the example, when you run c = Poll.choice_set.create(choice_text="something") does that save to the db right away or does it wait until you call .save on the Poll? If it doesn't wait, is there a way to use sessions?

The manager create method saves immediately.

Is there a way to use transactions?

i'm really confused about something... i've got a bunch of data tables / models ... and on my front end system, i want to essentially charge users to access certain information. (i.e. this object costs $100, and the user has $200 in their account)

since the information for sale across many models/tables, how do i assign prices? the logic involved confuses me

is using contenttypes framework the way to go? is there something better?

m1chael: you can have model inheritance?

what if some of that information is being handled by 3rd party apps?

then you'll have to make sure your models model the database properly

i'm pretty good at postgresql in the backend sense

Django doesn't do anything fancy to the db