Django utility methods (including New Relic deployment notification)

So we’ve moved to Github here at Infoxchange as our primary development platform because pull requests and Travis CI are much nicer than yelling across the room at each other ((big shout out to both Github and Travis CI for supporting our not-for-profit mission with gratis private accounts)). To enable Travis to build our code, we’ve needed to move our little utility libraries to Github too. Since some of these were already on pip, it made sense to open source the rest of them too.

The most useful is a package called IXDjango which includes a number of generally useful management commands for Django developers. Especially useful are deploy which will run a sequence of other commands for deployment, and newrelic_notify_deploy which you can use to notify New Relic of your deployment, which annotates all of your graphs with the version number.

We hope these are useful to people.

Writing your first web app using Python and Flask

I presented a tutorial at linux.conf.au a couple of weeks ago on what there was for Python developers between CGI scripts and Django. That developers needn’t still be writing CGI scripts in 2014 (it happens) and there were frameworks that met your needs.

This tutorial introduces the microframework Flask, and shows of a whole bunch of things you can do with it, up to being a fully-fledged replacement for Django if you’re so inclined.

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In other news, I am now a maintainer of Lettuce, a BDD framework for Python/Django. So expect a few more Lettuce related blog posts (if I stop ignoring my blog).

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