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Fixtures Matchday25

Enyimba v FC Taraba
Pillars v Abia W
Gombe v Crown
Kaduna v Lobi
Giwa v Wolves
Sunshine v Rangers
Nembe v Akwa utd
Elkanemi v Bayelsa
Nasarawa v Heartland
Dolphins v Sharks

Djangocode: So, how's the installation like if I want to run on localhost.. Do I need internet connection and command line ish?? Thanks for yo reply..

You'd need to download the django package and install and obviously you'd need internet for that. There are various ways, easier ways, buh when I installed mine, what I did was to download django from the site www.djangoproject.com/download/ and it'd be saved to a directory in your machine. Taking note of the directory, from my CLI, I 'cd' to the folder of my downloaded django package then ran "python setup.py install" which then installed django into my Python's site-packages dir.
Django comes with an inbuilt development server for testing your apps as u design. See it as a wampserver or easyphp.

tundebabzy: +1

I repeat, ATM, you won't find any python framework with extensive documentation as that of django and its always in sync with the latest.

If you are a beginner, don't skip learning python first because Django is just python. Plus, Django has a huge, active and welcoming community so you can easily get unstuck. Just check the mailing list and see the daily activity.

I've seen discussions about flask but I don't gel with the philosophy behind it. For example, it touts itself as a micro framework but it has 2 dependencies. Anyway, that's a discussion for another thread.

I'd agree with you. Django is the best amongst all and sincerely you dont need to spend a mth or 10,000hrs studying python before u grasp django.

I think I'd need to check out Flask. It's one of the popular python web framework I havent looked at. There are about 4 others Im familiar with.

Djangocode: Quietly following.. Am having a hard time choosing btw django and web2py.. Facts am seeing here's making me a bit scared of Django.. @OP, What's yo opinion??

There is nothing to be scared of about django. The challenge I had was that I knew of no Nigerian djangonaut so had to rely on the whites who Im not always comfy with. Nau, you'd know some Nigerian djangonauts here so whenever you've started and then hit an unpythonic brickwall, u just have to come to NL and ask

DharkPoet: 1000+ ahem!! If you still get other recommendation that could help, please help a brother out. Because failure to do so, ahem!! Make I stop there shaa.

I want to get Head First Python, how good is it?

Lol Okay. When Ive got the time, I'd compress all my Python tutorials (more than 60 of them) and share it online so that anyone can download...

I have Head first python buh I havent studied it cuz it was for Python3k versions and Im using 2.7. I think it's good. All the Head first series have good reviews.

DharkPoet: Going with Zed A Shaw, his Learn Python The Hard Way is really interesting.

I swear, the thing Hard oo then. That was the 2nd python tutorial that I studied... You'd want to download more sha. There are more beautiful tutorials out there from as little as a 3page tutorial to 1000+ page tutorial in Python.

From the look of it, it seems this django thng is bad business.

Not that it is really bad oo. The django developers had their own philosophy of loose coupling i.e the logic (views), database (models) and the templates should be separate (decoupled from one another) not to mention static and media files. That said, they want to encourage code reusability. For instance, instead of writing a forum app from scratch, just import it if someone has created it. That means, you can have a fully flegded web app working without writing much codes.


Documentation not insync with latest releases.

The documentation is always in sync with the latest release, the problem is that the tutorials written by independent authors are not always in sync with the latest version. Some of the best django tutorials are already outdated. Django is in version 1.8, most tuts are in <= 1.4 Buh if u can understand django's official tutorial which I found shallow, u can understand any outdated django tutorial.


Poor design ,requiring needless imports.
Y not ditch it,roll ur own or find somethg a better replacement?

[b]Starting out for the first time is really a painful experience. You'd ask more questions than the number of lines of code you'd write buh when you're done with your first (deployed) django web app, it becomes easy. You know the steps already and wont face much obstacles...

My 2py

dhtml18: Maybe the professional tried it and got jammed, well, different strokes for different folks.

The pattern I took now is to study the codes, then gradually create mine. The problem with some django apps is that their developers have kinda made it difficult to modify without breaking other codes. You have to import ALL even if u dont really need it buh that's not to say u cant entirely buh it takes some time. Im currently doing a forum and ecommerce store to be included in a site and the best way to go is DIY

DharkPoet: Chei, and I'm really getting to like python and had intentions of going into Django *sobs*

*hands him a brown handkerchief to wipe tears**

Bro, go for it. You'd be lucky cuz when u get into a problem and ask a question here on NL, I would be able to respond. Im now well versed with the challenges beginners face. You wont face the problems I did. Ive learnt the hard way.

After 24 games, the Top 5

Pillars 40pts
Dolphins 38pts
Nasarawa 38pts
Enyimba 37pts
Abia W. 37pts

*Sharks are in the 11th pos*

Results

Wolves 2-1 Pillars
Bayelsa 3-0 Kaduna
Sunshine 0-0 Dolphins
Akwa utd 1-0 Elkanemi
Heartland 2-0 Gombe
Taraba 1-1 Nembe
Crown 2-0 Sharks
Abia W 3-3 Enyimba
Rangers 1-0 Giwa

WTF - WHAT THE _FUCK OR _FUCKTARD

dhtml18: ^^^welcome to the world of geeks (i kinda do this all the time). When the code now works, I then study it and break it down to pieces.

If I get what u mean, that is u just "plug them in" to your projects? I wanted to do that too buh a professional adviced me against it.

tundebabzy: Are you talking of the __official__ django tutorials from djangoproject.com ?
AFAIK, there are tutorials for every version of django for which there is official documentation including the dev versions

There is djangobook, it is far behind, buh I think the one I mean is "The definitive guide to Django web development done right" and "Practical Django projects" written by the early Django developers.

Yes, there is a tutorial for each django version - the Polls app abi Bro, talk true, that tutorial no follow jaare. Check it, every django tutorial author always admit that the django lacks quality updated tutorials...

The doc isnt even the thing. There are no current tutorials to aid beginners in learning. The tutorial written by the developers isnt updated again. Thats bad. I have 5 solid django tutorials buh 4 out of it arent current. How would u nau not run into challenges when that's what is available. Well Ive just downloaded an uncountable numbr of open-source django apps to learn from the codes. Im done with tutorials

Fixtures

Bayelsa v Kaduna
Sunshine v Dolphins
Wolves v Pillars
Abia W. v Enyimba (Live on supersport 4.15pm on Sunday)
Lobi v Nasarawa
Akwa utd v Elkanemi
Heartland v Gombe
Rangers v Giwa
Taraba v Nembe
Crown v Sharks

@Tundebabzy, thanks anyway

Uhm. Ive just solved the problem early this morning. It had to do with my path configurations. I read this book someone suggested and finished the tutorial and applied their idea into mine and *in Django's voice* It worked! Forget SO, all the solutions there werent compatible with mine. There's a sort of gap that Django creates that is a trouble to beginners. Ive scaled the hurdle nau, I hope I dont get into another

www.tangowithdjango.com

Lol Nau I see

Dolphins v Crown 2pm on supersport
Sharks v Heartland 4pm on supersport
Elkanemi v Taraba 2pm
Pillars v Rangers 4pm
Enyimba v Wolves 4pm
Nembe v Abia W 4pm
Kaduna v Akwa utd 4pm
Nasarawa v Bayelsa 4pm
Gombe v Lobi stars 4pm
Giwa v Sunshine 4pm

The same way Enyimba and Dolphins wants the Fedcup final out of Lagos

No mur updates

Stephxoblessed: I Rep computer science.

U into real programming too?

TrishaP: Computer science graduate of Madonna university.

Might be a graduate, but I still have issues with my programming skills. I hope I could learn from this thread

You can visit our programming section to brush up skills

There is only a handful of django devs in Nigeria, and most are just into it of recent like me.

Well, I just wanted to ask if any expert here has created a django app that involved uploading images. Im really stucked here. Tried many solutions Ive been given buh it isnt working for the current django version that am using 1.5.3

Simply, images I upload from the admin interface arent displaying, just the "alt" that I provided.

IMHO, Im always against naming National (iconic) structures with some so-called "National heroes". No disrespect meant to the Okwaraji family pls.

Tow the path of Sani Kaita and return the NPFL. You're already known and fellow players would accord u respect. Better still go to PSL and join Uzoenyi.










Pride wont let him

I thought this thread is a tutorial on how to create a logo practically

Pls any django prog. here, comment with a dot or anything I want to ask a question...







Dont be scared, my question isnt hard

THANKS

Blood of python. What da _fuck The person wey design the site don chop LASG o

This one bad 4 me oo. Im already having problem with github n twitter nau google wan ...

Olarewajub: Same over here. Just simple. No time to be killing yourself on how you are going to please others by your dressing when there are other important things to do.

Yup. Buh tha things is, if Im not cautioned, I could wear such to ANY occassion...