Author Archives: Chris Scott

A Primer on virtualenv

What is virtualenv and Why Should You Use It?

Put simply (and copied from the project page), virtualenv is a tool to create isolated Python environments. Why is this good? You can create a new Python environment to run a Python/Django/whatever app…

Word Movement in iTerm on OS X

Prompted by a question from Tim Rosenblatt and answer from Matt Williams about how to move forward and backward by words in OS X Terminal.app, I wanted to see how to do this in iTerm. Referencing the article Matt sent made it easy.

In iTerm, choose…

Local to External Django Docs Bookmarklet

As I'm learning Django, I've found it helpful to have a local copy of the Django docs to refer to. This is quicker than going to the Django docs site and also helps when I don't have a connection. The…

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Customizing Django's Admin Templates and Media When Using the Built-In Development Web Server

At work today, Sean was playing around with creating a Django app and wanted to use the django-grappelli project to get a cool look for Django’s admin. I warned him against using the instructions included in the project since if you are…