By now, most people doing Django development should be familiar with pip, virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper. This post shows how I use these tools to maintain my local development environment for Satchmo. Read More
After almost 7 months of development work, Satchmo 0.9.1 is released. This version of Satchmo has many improvements and updates over the old version. This is a summary. The rest of the article is posted on the blog. Read More
Now that I've been using mercurial and bitbucket for a while, I thought it might be useful to describe the development workflow I follow for using mercurial for branching, merging and local development. I'll also talk a bit about using fabric for deployment. Read More
I will be heading out to Pycon tomorrow. If you're going to be there, stop by and say hi. I will even be presenting on Friday afternoon so I look forward to meeting more folks in the community. Read More
We are going to have the first official Satchmo sprint on January 2nd, 2010. Unless we have critical mass in one location, this will be a virtual sprint in the hopes of getting maximum participation from the community. Read More
I am happy to report that Satchmo 0.9 is now released to the public. This release is a major milestone in our path towards 1.0. This release has been in active development for over a year and includes many enhancements, new features and bug fixes. Please view the full post for more details. Read More
Thanks to everyone for making Djangocon 2009 and success. I really enjoyed meeting other members of the satchmo and django community. For those that haven't had a chance to see my slides, they are posted now. Read More
I recently gave a presentation on Satchmo at the Minnesota Python User's Group (PyMNTos) and the presentation is now posted... Click on the link to read the rest of this post. Read More
The recent rollout and update of the site seems to have worked out pretty well. The new store gallery feature - http://www.satchmoproject.com/stores/all has 33 production Satchmo stores. I'm sure there are more out there but this is a nice display of the capabilities of Satchmo. One thing I am looking for is some more success stories in deploying Satchmo. Read More after the link. Read More
This weekend, I completed some changes to the Satchmo site. The Django code running the site was all pre 1.0 so I knew there were some tweaks I needed to make to bring it up to 1.1 standards. For the most part, it wasn't too terribly bad. Outside of some minor syntax changes with the admin app, the biggest change was updating comments to the new django code base. I ended up using django-threadedcomments for the new comment functionality. After a bit of tinkering, I did get it up and running and am hopeful that it will be useful for the discussion. The other component that took a lot of time was figuring out how to dump and load all the posts and comments. Through the magic of dumpdata, loaddata and modifying the json files, it seems to have worked out pretty well. Outside of the basic cleanup and new threaded comments, the newest feature to the site is an enhanced store gallery - http://www.satchmoproject.com/stores/all If you haven't looked at the variety and sophistication of the Satchmo stores in the wild, I highly encourage you to do it. Read More