Re: Django Generator

2010-02-16 Thread Brice Leroy
2010/2/13 Philippe Ombredanne : > Brice: > Very nice start. > There is a long history of similar tools and they all have a place and > a purpose. > I remember fondly of some tool that generated CRUD dbase apps from a > db schema .. that was last century ... > So carry on!

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-13 Thread Philippe Ombredanne
Brice: Very nice start. There is a long history of similar tools and they all have a place and a purpose. I remember fondly of some tool that generated CRUD dbase apps from a db schema .. that was last century ... So carry on! Just a few notes: - the generator page takes quite a bit of vertcal

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-10 Thread Brice Leroy
Thank you Wolf, I think you're right on the necessity of a tutorial once beta is reach. I'll try to fight against complexity but as new feature will appear that will probably become a sine qua non condition. Thank you for your support. Brice 2010/2/10 Wolf Halton : > It

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-10 Thread Wolf Halton
It is a great idea, Brice. I was playing with it last night. It will really help the beginners along. I am imagining a tutorial for your generator that shows people how to structure a useful project and then walks the reader through their own code to help them understand what the generator has

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-10 Thread Brice Leroy
Hello everybody, I woke up this morning and saw all those email and I would like to thank you all for all those advices and support you wrote. That motivates me even more to work on it. The project being in alpha stage, please keep in mind that your project integrity and its storage is not

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-10 Thread Kevin Postal
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Re: Django Generator

2010-02-10 Thread Rick Caudill
Sorry... It is Brice... My bad. Rick On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Rick Caudill wrote: > I want to say good job Brian. I can see how this could be very useful. > > Rick > > > On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Brice Leroy wrote: > >> Hello

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-10 Thread Rick Caudill
I want to say good job Brian. I can see how this could be very useful. Rick On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Brice Leroy wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've been working for a week on this idea of a generator for django > project. The goal is to provide a simple

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-10 Thread derek
I'd like the option (maybe linked to profile on the webpage?) to set: * timezone * database engine On Feb 9, 10:58 pm, Brice Leroy wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've been working for a week on this idea of a generator for django > project. The goal is to provide a simple

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-10 Thread Russell Keith-Magee
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 6:48 PM, Atamert Ölçgen wrote: > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 22:58:32 Brice Leroy wrote: > * Please remove `auto_now` and `auto_now_add` since they're deprecated. No, they really aren't. If they were deprecated, there would be deprecation warnings in the

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-10 Thread Atamert Ölçgen
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 22:58:32 Brice Leroy wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've been working for a week on this idea of a generator for django > project. The goal is to provide a simple architecture that can be > after adapted to your project. The system is in alpha stage but allows > you to

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Richard Shebora
OK. I have been trying it out. I have to say I like how structured everything comes out. It makes it easy to cross reference what I entered into the "Generator" site and the code it gave me. I now have a working project with some features that I can learn from. It's like having a seasoned

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Ramirez
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 15:51:03 Brice Leroy wrote: > 2010/2/9 Mike Ramirez : > > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 15:12:21 Brice Leroy wrote: > >> Would you eat some food not cook by a professional ? > > > > I would be very wary of a person who hasn't cooked before... The > >

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Brice Leroy
2010/2/9 Mike Ramirez : > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 15:12:21 Brice Leroy wrote: >> Would you eat some food not cook by a professional ? >> > > I would be very wary of a person who hasn't cooked before... The difference is > in experience. it's just that I don't like those

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Ramirez
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 15:12:21 Brice Leroy wrote: > Would you eat some food not cook by a professional ? > I would be very wary of a person who hasn't cooked before... The difference is in experience. > > Because you can, doesn't mean that you should... > > > > It's this type of

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Brice Leroy
2010/2/9 Mike Ramirez : > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 14:52:00 Frank W. Samuelson wrote: >> You are something of a killjoy, Mike. >> >> This could grow into a really great project, where people >> don't even have to learn programming to generate a usable >> django web database

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Ramirez
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 14:57:26 Richard Shebora wrote: > Actually my first thought was... What a great learning tool! > > How many times did I want to do something but could not find a working > example to pick apart? I would think it would make a great way to > show proper layout and

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Ramirez
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 14:52:00 Frank W. Samuelson wrote: > You are something of a killjoy, Mike. > > This could grow into a really great project, where people > don't even have to learn programming to generate a usable > django web database app. Isn't this what existing django-apps are

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Brice Leroy
Thank you Richard. I put most of my coding convention inside and try to respect the pep8. A lot of work still need to be done. But I expect to reach my goal by the next 15 days Brice 2010/2/9 Richard Shebora : > Actually my first thought was... What a great learning tool! >

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Brice Leroy
Wow... Thank you Frank. I really appreciate. That could be new direction that I didn't really think of. I will finish the permission, form and view integration and keep in mind to stay minimalistic. For now, if you have django source installed you just need to - download the targz file - run

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Richard Shebora
Actually my first thought was... What a great learning tool! How many times did I want to do something but could not find a working example to pick apart? I would think it would make a great way to show proper layout and conventions for newbies (like me). I have been programming in python for

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Frank W. Samuelson
You are something of a killjoy, Mike. This could grow into a really great project, where people don't even have to learn programming to generate a usable django web database app. They just design their app with the user friendly web interface, and it runs. It could even be integrated with

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Ramirez
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 14:26:16 Brice Leroy wrote: > > The big thing for me in terms of tools like this, is the ability to save > > time, which I don't think there is a difference between what django-admin > > has and your project. Because either way I need to still fill in the > > fields,

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Brice Leroy
2010/2/9 Mike Ramirez : > On Tuesday 09 February 2010 13:09:08 Brice Leroy wrote: >> django-admin startproject creates an empty folder... >> >> startproject almost = mkdir >> >> This will generate your models, modelForm, views, templates, urls, and >> soon customized forms and

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Ramirez
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 13:09:08 Brice Leroy wrote: > django-admin startproject creates an empty folder... > > startproject almost = mkdir > > This will generate your models, modelForm, views, templates, urls, and > soon customized forms and permissions > That's what the web interface

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Brice Leroy
django-admin startproject creates an empty folder... startproject almost = mkdir This will generate your models, modelForm, views, templates, urls, and soon customized forms and permissions I'll add a copy project so you can extend an existing model if you have a big production pace of common

Re: Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Mike Ramirez
On Tuesday 09 February 2010 12:58:32 Brice Leroy wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I've been working for a week on this idea of a generator for django > project. The goal is to provide a simple architecture that can be > after adapted to your project. The system is in alpha stage but allows > you to

Django Generator

2010-02-09 Thread Brice Leroy
Hello everybody, I've been working for a week on this idea of a generator for django project. The goal is to provide a simple architecture that can be after adapted to your project. The system is in alpha stage but allows you to create project, model (+1 view and 1 form) and application. Once