Senior Django / Python Role, Birmingham UK

2012-01-19 Thread jamesm
Job Description To provide a senior development role within the department and support / develop junior members of the team To ensure the availability of business critical systems To maintain and monitor website(s) & admin systems including; - System monitoring via Nagios and

Looking for an experienced full time Django developer, Birmingham UK

2011-08-30 Thread jamesm
Hi All Looking to expand an existing small but specialist team in Birmingham UK for established market leading retail / trading operation. Ideal candidates will be a proficient and experienced solution developer with strong commercial awareness. Technologies required : Django / LAMP /

Re: Django basic tests are failing

2009-10-23 Thread jamesM
solved by changing the default collation of mysql server from utf8_bin to utf8_general_ci. in case you encounter something similar, do change db backend to sqlite3 and then rerun the test, if the tests pass - there's a problem with database server. j On Oct 23, 1:50 pm, jamesM <james.macke

Re: Django basic tests are failing

2009-10-23 Thread jamesM
This apparently is my bad, i've just created an empty project, and all the tests of it pass. Am working on tracking down the problem. On Oct 23, 1:29 pm, jamesM <james.mackenzi...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi guys, > > i've decided to practice some test-driven development with djan

Django basic tests are failing

2009-10-23 Thread jamesM
Hi guys, i've decided to practice some test-driven development with django and bumped into some small problems. No idea is this a bug or my bad, but after running python manage.py test i get the two tests which fail (error below). Both of them expects unicode value, but receives a simple string.

Re: Tips for reading The Django Book in light of Django 1.0

2008-11-17 Thread jamesM
I do keep reading the Django book + DjangoDocs of the same topic at the moment. As first one is easier to read, the second one represents 1.0 version better. Also always check the DjangoBook's comment's - most of deprecated features are mentioned there and updated with more recent ones. Anyway,

Re: django unicode error

2008-11-17 Thread jamesM
all the best, JamesM On Nov 16, 5:41 pm, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please tell us: > > 1 - What is the output from 'show create table' in a mysql command prompt > for the table containing this data. > 2 - Exactly what does your model's __unicod

django unicode error

2008-11-16 Thread jamesM
there is a value 'Qué Onda Guero' in a mysql database. When i SELECT this row from mysql, it's displayed correctly. When i connect to mysql DB through python 2.6 shell using mySQLObject and assign the value to a list, the >>list_name[0] gives 'Qu\xc3\xa9 Onda Guero', and >>variable =list_name[0]