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What’s more important though is they started helping right away. I was on the #django channel on irc.freenode.org and just mentioned that I was learning Django. Now, I didn’t actually ask for help, since I’ve been doing this long enough to figure this stuff out fairly quick, but people started pointing me at better docs Hp laptop battery without me asking.

It’s refreshing to run into a group who’s attitude is Laptop Battery, “Oh, newbie, ok read this and that and that, and oh that too but watch out for…”

#3) The Admin

For those of you who don’t know, Django has this cool feature called The Admin which uses your object model and the components you’ve installed in your site to provide you with a fully functioning admin console. With this you can create sites, alter objects, Compaq Presario 2100 battery list, delete, sort, filter, drill down, make tables, everything you do in 90% of all enterprise applications.

Going through the admin, and how easily you can make your own modifications, I just feel angry because I’ve had to write that same dumb “sortable-table-of-objects-with-drill-down-filters” over and over and over. Each time in a different framework with a different language. I look at the “log of things you’ve done” to the right and cry. I’ve had to implement that over and over. Each time it was “compaq 2100 battery Hp 398876-001 battery always way different from the last time” and then it was just exactly what Django has staring at me and mocking me.

I say, if you’re doing the typical enterprise bullshit coding that’s nothing more than a ton of tables with sorting, you should seriously be trying out the Django Admin. Even if all you do is use it as a way to get a prototype in front of users for initial feedback and discovery it will still save you mountains Compaq Presario 2500 battery Hp PB992A battery of work later.

#4) The Admin Docs

Once you install docutils this wonderful world opens up where gnomes run around singing and telling you naughty little secrets about your application. With that one skeleton key, your Django Admin will actually let you drill into all your models and views to see their structure. No more dumping SQL databases to find out the name of that damn table for the Person class and whether there’s a compaq 2500 battery on it causing you problems.

Instead you just hop over to the console and browse around. Take a look, see what the models are doing, glance at the views. Forget the template syntax? It’s there. Forgot what URL to use for the user view? It’s there. Need to know all the tags? Yep, all there.

#5) The Conferences

As I work on this little poll application in the Hp PB994A battery tutorial, I remember that I’m going to Prague for EuroDjangoCon 2009 to give a keynote. I’ve been to many conferences, with last year being the most I’ve ever done, but this conference season I only have time for one. How could I pass up such a cool list of Compaq Presario NX9010 battery speakers, nice group of people, and a visit to Prague?

When I think of the Python conferences I’ve been to, I’ve liked all of them quite a lot. They are rarely heavily commercial, usually very cheap, and have a much more laid back community feel to them.

The coolest thing though is meeting John Draper at PyCon. Not sure why he was there, but that was pretty Hp PB991A battery cool.