January 2010
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Accessing Inherited Models from the Parent in...
One of the neat features of Django’s ORM is Model inheritance (table-level). It allows several neat data design patterns to occur. Here’s an example. Let’s say we’re developing a website for a game company. The company sells two types of products: board games and video games. All of the products will share some data in common, name and product_id for example, but we...
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Version Control Commit Messages
Soooooo… I think I’m going to put in a proposal at work. All commit messages for our Mercurial DVCS need to be in 16-year-old girl language…. “Like, the JSON api is totally updated” “fixed the buggies kk thx bai “this import module is sooooo cuties!!!!!11`1”
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Meh @reading (but Yay to reading on the iPod)
I can’t be the only programmer who finds reading a chore? And what about those 5-billion page programming tomes? Am I the only one who never finishes those? It happens to be that I just found something about reading that totally rocks: Reading on the iPhone/iPod Touch is totally different (better different). HA! I bet you didn’t know I was going to say that (well if you read the...
