http://www.electricwords.org Dan Ellis's technical blog Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:45:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As part of one of my side-projects, I wanted a way for users of a web site to search for events by date, but with some flexibility. I also wanted users who are creating events to be able to express uncertainty about the dates on which they happened. For example, if ... http://www.electricwords.org/2008/11/fuzzy-date-matching-in-postgresql/ Recently, when working with Django, I wanted to create a class that would automatically render instances of a model as an editable HTML table. I used a Django-esque approach to defining the table columns, such that it was similar to Model and Form classes: class ProductTable(Table): _model = ... http://www.electricwords.org/2008/08/parameterised-classes-in-python/ I haven't had any kind of personal web site for ages, but I recently wrote an article, Introduction to Django, for Digital Web magazine, so I thought I'd put a quick something up here as a point of contact. http://www.electricwords.org/2008/08/introduction-to-django/