I’ve written before about implementing CRUD operations on a single table in Django, and the post was very popular on my blog and I hope many people learned something from it.

The next logical step is to write a CRUD application with Parent/Child relationship, the application is bit more verbose but it follow the same simple logic used in the first post.

In fact I didn’t write a single application, I wrote five stand alone applications that shows different ways to implement CRUD operations:

I have an old PHP website that I wanted to have its code/content versioned with Git, normally Git setup the repo directory in the “.git” directory inside the working directory, but I faced a problem, if the working directory is accessible from the web server it means “.git” is also accessible too.

Luckily git have an option to have the repo directory located somewhere else using the GIT_DIR environment variable, so here what I did:

The Wrong Way

I used to create a new directory to hold common templates like “base.html”, and add it TEMPLATES_DIR in the settings.py file:

Preparing Django project to support multiple langauges is easier than you think!

Update: add names and namespace to URLs

Implementing user authentication is fairly easy job in Django, many functionalities are already included in the standard Django installation, you can manage users using the default “admin” app the comes with Django.

Here I will show how implement Login/Logout feature by relying on Django built-in views.

If you build Arabic website you must be hit by the hard reality, Arabic web font options are really narrow, the only realistic choices are:

• Tahoma: only good for small sizes.
• Arabic Transparent
• Traditional Arabic

My idea is to buy other quality Arabic fonts and ask browser/OS vendors to include them, we really need more choice to improve the quality of website productions, and add more creativity to our Arabic Internet.

Drupal wins 2008 Best Open Source CMS from Packt Publishing

More from
http://www.packtpub.com/article/2008-open-source-cms-award-winner-announced

More from Wikipedia:

• Drupal
• Content Management System (CMS)

Django team released version 1.0 of the their web application framework, Django is written in Python.

I only tried Django for a week more than one year ago, and it was really amazing, and easy to create web application.

Even if you don’t write in Python I recommend you spend sometime to know it, may be walk through the tutorial. It has many inspiring and brilliant features you definitely need to know before select your next web framework.