I always like to think of what different interpreted programming languages bring to the table.

Python 2.6 (and Py3K) introduce a new way to format strings. Perviously you did this:

One “trick” that propel offers you is tables with fields created_at and updated_at.

I love markdown. I write my blogs in markdown. For most user text areas in my web apps I support markdown and save both the markdown and the formatted text into my data store.

For some reason, it was difficult for me to find the documentation for this. If your Django form field is required you’ll by default get an error stating that ‘This field is required.’ You can easily replace that when defining your form like so:

If you find yourself moving from symfony to Django, here’s how you sf_guard_user’s user table to django.contrib.auth user table:

I’m picking up a pet project of mine that I was working on a few months back. It’s written in Django and is openID enabled… but I didn’t used django openID and I have no clue why… I wrote my own code.

I was dusting off an old Django project and everything was working except the admin site: