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Satchmo Site Upgrade

Posted 11 days ago

This weekend, I completed some changes to the Satchmo site. The Django code running the site was all pre 1.0 so I knew there were some tweaks I needed to make to bring it up to 1.1 standards. For the most part, it wasn't too terribly bad. Outside ... [More] of some minor syntax changes with the admin app, the biggest change was updating comments to the new django code base. I ended up using django-threadedcomments for the new comment functionality. After a bit of tinkering, I did get it up and running and am hopeful that it will be useful for the discussion. The other component that took a lot of time was figuring out how to dump and load all the posts and comments. Through the magic of dumpdata, loaddata and modifying the json files, it seems to have worked out pretty well.

Outside of the basic cleanup and new threaded comments, the newest feature to the site is an enhanced store gallery - http://www.satchmoproject.com/stores/all If you haven't looked at the variety and sophistication of the Satchmo stores in the wild, I highly encourage you to do it. [Less]

Satchmo DjangoCon Video Available

Posted 13 days ago

The satchmo YouTube video and presentation from Djangocon are now available.

Satchmo 0.8 Release

Posted 13 days ago

After 6 months of development activity, Satchmo 0.8 is now released and represents the first official Satchmo release that is compatible with Django 1.0.

Using Django Permissions

Posted 13 days ago

I recently had the need to use the Django permission system and couple it with
newforms admin. There were a couple of tricks in the process so hopefully this
will be useful for you.

Satchmo 0.8.1 Release

Posted 13 days ago

Satchmo 0.8.1 is released. This release has some minor bug fixes and improvements.

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