Author archives: Mike

The choices_for_FOO hook would allow a model to restrict the choices for a given field based on e.g. another field (common requirement where you have row-level authorization and need to restrict choices to the set of records accessible by the auth-row attached to this object).  It's currently a patch attached to a 5 year old ...

Put a bit more work into FakeLion (L10N, get it) this afternoon to see how a particular project is doing on getting i18n coverage.  I added some quick flags so you can suppress HTML-code escaping, suppress Python string-subs escaping, disable the reversing of strings, and use full-width-latin substitution characters (which does a pretty good job ...

Pseudo-localization lets you easily see which strings in your site are not yet marked for translation.  That's pretty useful if you don't yet have a real translation, but want to check whether someone could do a translation if you paid them to do so.  Didn't find a good package freely available (though I imagine there ...

Just some notes on the install:

• live cd boots and runs perfectly well
• needed to reboot into windows, run chkdsk /f (with administrator privileges) and then reboot twice into windows to get the disk into consistent state
• installed image fails trying to log into KDE, installed image appears to use the open-source ati drivers; these ...

As mentioned a long time ago in the midst of some speculation; we were able to tour the Scotland Street School while in Glasgow.  This was Mackintosh's last built work (during his life).  I've uploaded our photos from the School to a Picasa album so that people wanting a reference to what's being discussed ...

I've uploaded a tutorial and a very minimal library for creating JQuery Mobile sites with Django.  It's actually the first time I've used PyPI's documentation hosting system, mostly because Launchpad doesn't have a web-page hosting mechanism.  The library (django-jqm) is not intended to be a platform for creating "real" sites, it's just a bunch of ...

Playing with a JQuery Mobile baseline template for Django this afternoon. Just a set of templates, urls, static files, etceteras which give a "mobile app-like" base from which to begin development in a new project. I'm not particularly satisfied with it yet; I coded it directly into a "regular" app, and it really should have ...

I have been using "standard" Pydoc (actually slightly hacked) to document PyOpenGL outside the man pages, but PyOpenGL is almost entirely composed of things that don't work well with the standard tools; functions are actually class instances that check for availability before attempting to call, "functions" are defined in "raw" modules then imported into their ...

Some little tips on how to make your "normal" Django site work properly under jQuery mobile:

• as mentioned before, put your JQM setup code into a base template that all of your mobile pages extend, this means that users can go to any "normal" url and still get the jQuery effects loaded
• create a "content" ...

The OpenGL 3.x and 4.x man-pages are now integrated into the PyOpenGL documentation. Let me know if you find any bugs in the conversions.