Entries published January, 2010

Self-referencing many-to-many through

How to implement self-referencing many-to-many relationships in Django. Example use cases are modeling asymmetrical following (a-la twitter) or symmetrical friendship (a-la facebook).

Looking at registration patterns in Django

Django uses several types of registration patterns for some of its most notable features. This entry looks at the way django implements its different types of registries.

Simple integration with GitHub - django-github

django-github is a Django app for integration with GitHub.

Amazing computer-generated graphics

Amazing CG!

What's missing from the OEmbed spec

OEmbed is a pretty neat idea. A site that serves up content decides that it wants to allow users elsewhere to integrate with their site. What's missing is the discovery step.

Django powered at long last

My site is now powered by Django! I added some features, trimmed some bloat, and hopefully have a leaner, cleaner site.