http://solutions.treypiepmeier.com So I don't have to figure things out more than once. Thu, 03 Jul 2008 15:14:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Create a repository on GitHub Go into the Bundle Editor and drag your bundle to your desktop and cd into it in the terminal. This is the key to the whole thing. If you just go into the bundle where it lives in TextMate, you might not get everything ... http://solutions.treypiepmeier.com/2008/06/23/textmate-bundle-on-github/ If you write a blog whose primary purpose is to help people find and remember information (mostly myself in this case), then it's probably a good idea to flag certain posts as out-of-date so as not to mislead people who are on a quest for knowledge. That is, of ... http://solutions.treypiepmeier.com/2008/06/14/using-wordpress-custom-fields/ This is so you can use something like /blog/ for a list of your blog entries, and the home page for a static page (or something fancier). Under Settings > Reading > Posts page, pick the page template you want to use. If you're using a static page template for the home ... http://solutions.treypiepmeier.com/2008/06/09/wordpress-posts-page/ svn co http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/[current_tag_number] [name_of_site] cd [name_of_site] touch .htaccess chmod 666 .htaccess cp wp-config-sample.php wp-config.php cd wp-content/themes/ cp -R default [name_of_theme] cd [name_of_theme] rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn` Now import the content of wp-content/themes/[name_of_theme] into your choice of source code management systems and get to it. Updating cd [name_of_site] svn sw http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/tags/[new_tag_number] Sources Installing/Updating WordPress with Subversion Changing File Permissions Recursively delete ... http://solutions.treypiepmeier.com/2008/05/28/installing-wordpress-the-right-way/ Duplicate these folders: app/design/frontend/default/default skin/frontend/default/default (Don't get me started about how awkward the folder structure is.) Rename the duplicated folders to whatever you want (make them both the same). FYI, the theme files under the app/ folder are for generated templates (things the system has to build when the site is viewed) and the theme ... http://solutions.treypiepmeier.com/2008/05/19/starting-a-magento-theme/ If you have a repository URL that looks like this: http://code.yourmom.com/project/trunk/ Issue this command (note that you leave off trunk/): git svn clone -s http://code.yourmom.com/project/ project After it's done, see how big it is: du -hs project And you'll see something like this: 20M project/ If it's particularly big, go into the folder and garbage collect: cd project git gc From ... http://solutions.treypiepmeier.com/2008/03/29/using-someone-elses-svn-repository-with-git/ The permalink decorator is the way to keep your URLs DRY. The only place you need to define where something lives is in your urls.py. In your templates, just point to {{ object.get_absolute.url }}. The problem with how they tell you to do it in the book, ... http://solutions.treypiepmeier.com/2008/03/10/use-djangos-permalink-decorator-with-generic-views/ dictionary = {'a':'apple', 'b':'banana', 'c':'cat'} # Associative array / hash / array with non-numeric indices. list = ['a', 'b', 'c'] # Normal array with 0-based indices. tuple = ('a', 'b', 'c') # Read-only array. More… http://solutions.treypiepmeier.com/2008/03/05/python-datatypes/ The long way Load a template Fill a Context Return a HttpResponse object Like so: from django.template import Template, Context from django.http import HttpResponse ... t = get_template('current_datetime.html') html = t.render(Context({'current_date': now})) return HttpResponse(html) The short way: render_to_response Like so: from django.shortcuts import render_to_response ... return render_to_response('current_datetime.html', {'current_date': now}) Source: The Django Book (pages 51, 52 of the print edition) http://solutions.treypiepmeier.com/2008/03/05/django-template-system-basics/ Python Image Library (PIL) Open and run: sudo python setup.py install Python Markdown library Open and run: sudo python setup.py install See also. http://solutions.treypiepmeier.com/2008/02/26/things-you-probably-want-to-install-to-get-the-most-out-of-django/