Although it’s more or less the defacto standard, I’m not going to use TinyMCE this time, partly because it feels a bit like bloatware and partly because it’s not based on jQuery — the JavaScript framework of choice of the project where I also want to use it: django-page-cms. The editor I’m going to use is WYMeditor because it provides authors some helpers to write sane (X)HTML instead of hiding it away while not leaving them with a blank textarea.

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WYMeditor is a web-based WYSIWYM (What You See Is What You Mean) XHTML editor.

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Every Python instance obviously knows its attributes and methods and you can access them via a call to the special __getattribute__ method. If the attribute you tried accessing is a method it will obviously not be automatically called but returned for you to be able to do whatever needs to be done.

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siteconfig is a relatively small Django app that stores setting data in the database, along with project versioning data in case you need it to handle migrations of some sort down the road.

(tags: django python settings.py settings dynamic configuration)

To put it into perspective, switching as many things as possible to generic views has meant that the application’s view code shrunk by about a third while gaining functionality.

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Pinax is an integrated collection of selected Django reusable applications. It can be used as a head start for website projects and also to experiment patterns of Django applications. As I learn how to leverage Pinax to build Web applications, I’m writing about my experiences.

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