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 and install all package dependencies into the virtualenv without affecting your system’s site-packages. … Continue reading »

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 Manage Profiles from the Bookmarks menu. Expand the Keyboard … Continue reading »

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 only drawback to this is that when I find something I want to share with … Continue reading »

We’ll miss you, buddy.

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 using Django from an svn checkout then it will break any future svn … Continue reading »