In case anyone else is wondering why their utf-8 email is not coming out as it should when using Django…

Like many starting out in websites and databases my first experience was with MySQL. I had no choice since the hosting service I used only offered MySQL. This is still the case for a lot of hosting - you get the standard LAMP stack and nothing more. I had read on the web that everyone is using MySQL, so how bad could it be? I was forgetting the maxim that quality and popularity are inversely proportional. BTW: it’s not really popularity in this case - it’s the most users - think Windoze.

Bare with me it’s a long story…

The Guardian set up a Django site to crowdsource analysis of the released (and redacted) MPs expenses claims. The Nieman Journalism Lab has a good piece on the lessons learned.

When I first set up this site back in 2005 I looked around for a blogging platform and chose ExpressionEngine. After years of bad experience with PHP (it’s such a mess) I was relucant to use a platform based on PHP but EE is a good and well thought out system. (BTW EE is about to release version 2.) So there we were.

If you get the error “AttributeError: ‘module’ object has no attribute ‘xyz’” in Django. It probably means you’ve added a new app but forgot to put the __init__.py file in the app’s directory.

I recently switched from the Django magic-removal branch to the trunk post-magic-removal. I was getting this bizarre error:

Jacob Kaplan-Moss gave a talk on Django at Google for BayPIGgies.

Snakes and Rubies Chicago, 3 Dec. 2005: The creators of Django and Rails each gave talks and discussed web frameworks. Download the video and audio here