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Ideas and Plans, Post-DjangoCon

 Posted September 11th, 2008 at 8:04AM

Just an update from the trenches about what’s going to be happening here soon!

Well the Django Plugables team (“team” being, just me) is back from Silicon Valley after an awesome DjangoCon and I wanted to just provide a little update of what’s going on around here, considering my last post was around the time that queryset refactor hit.

Lots of changes are going to hit the site soon, including enhancements that have been requested like comments, tagging, voting, etc. I’m working on support for Git repositories, specifically ones hosted at GitHub (using their API). I’m also looking for help to support other SCMs, like Bazaar and Mercurial. If you have …

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Queryset Refactor

 Posted April 26th, 2008 at 8:33PM

A few words about the merging of queryset-refactor to trunk and some obvious warnings as well.

As Django starts the final stretch to 1.0, there’ll be a lot of changes to the core code. One of those updates came tonight with revision 7477, queryset-refactor.

If you haven’t been living under a rock, then you’ll already know that the merging of this branch is not only a substantial step towards the 1.0 milestone, but it is also a complete overhaul of the way Django works with different database backends. Now you can do things like subclass models and OneToOneFields actually work!

But why is this being posted here? Well, simple. The …

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Hello World!

 Posted April 12th, 2008 at 12:55PM

A post of an introduction, thank yous, and what’s to come.

Howdy everybody! I’d like to be the first to welcome you to Django Plugables! By now most of you have already explored the site and I’m pretty psyched that so much has happened already via a twitter, a flickr photo and a few blog posts. Hell, I haven’t even done my own write up yet.

If you’re gawking at the fact that it’s simple, it is. I’m not a code monkey but I’m a designer with pretty good hold on the framework. The fact that I was able to go from idea to …

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