Boulder Django Meetup Notes 07312012.markdown

Boulder Django Meetup 07/31/2012

http://www.meetup.com/boulder-django/

Current Schedule is the last tuesday of every month.

Environments:

virtualenv http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/index.html
virtualenvwrapper http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper/
virtualenvwrapper.django http://www.doughellmann.com/projects/virtualenvwrapper.django/

virtualbox https://www.virtualbox.org/

##Coding: IPython http://ipython.org/
pyflakes syntax checking http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pyflakes/
The Zen of Python
>>> import this

Databases:

sqlite http://www.sqlite.org/

"Richard Hipp pronounces SQLite S-Q-L-ite, not Sequel-Lite." http://blog.cleverly.com/permalinks/247.html

postgresql http://www.postgresql.org/

Version Control:

git http://git-scm.com/
mercurial http://mercurial.selenic.com/

The Django tutorial

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/

Some highlights that were new to me

underscore references last object in command line

e.g. >>> p = _

Created an object through it's foreign key relationship:

p = Poll
p.choice_set.create(foo=bar, baz=foo) 

Get an object's properties:

help(p)
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#help
dir(p)
http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html#dir

Djangocon http://www.djangocon.us/ Django Dash http://djangodash.com

IRC Channels on freenode.net:

#djangodash
#denverdjango

Possible future topics:

Gondor Flask MongoDB, Mongo Engine