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Facebook + AIM = evil

Tuesday | September 25, 2007 | 4:36 pm  

To the 105 people I spammed today via IM while playing with Facebook… my humble apologies.

That was way evil of me, and I’d say slightly evil of facebook to offer… in what universe do folks want IM spam?

So aplogies for pressing buttons without thoroughly reading what will happen before I press them.

Update: The only thing I could have done that would be worse, is this, a service that lets you blast messages to your “friends” e-mail, IM and SMS, all at once. Yikes!

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One thing I absolutely love about Django’s template loading

Wednesday | September 12, 2007 | 5:38 pm  

Is the ability to specify a series of template folders in your settings file.

Here’s what we do at work:

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TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "templates"),
    os.path.abspath(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), "..", "ANOTHERSITE", "templates")),
)

It allows us to easily share templates from ANOTHERSITE with sister/sub sites, but when/if you need to override them you just drop your new template your site’s templates folder and you’re off to the races.

Another template tip

If you use the tip above, I’d recommend putting templates that are explicity shared in a templates/shared folder.

Then you can do things like:

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<!-- filename: templates/base_somethingorother.html -->
{% extends 'shared/shared_somethingorother.html' %}

It’s a minor tip, but it helps prevent collisions and alerts developers that these templates shouldn’t have any site specific code in them.

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