Rémy Giard » Django

Officially a freelancer

Rémy — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 02:59:36 +0000

It’s been a while that I wrote on this blog. So I decided I could give some news.

Since last December, I officially started to work on my own as a freelancer. I found my first contract, 7 months ending in June if it is not renewed. I am working for a Montreal agency called Planaxis, the client is Trilliant Networks in Granby. The technical environment and the product that I work on are really interesting. For me, it is a comeback in Java after a 2 years break. I though that I might be a little rusty at the beginning, but it came back pretty fast. For now, I am getting experience with Java technologies like Spring and Maven, which I never used before. I think it is a good choice to keep a foot in Java as it is my principal experience. I admit that I like the structure and the language of Java.

That said, Java is good, but who knows me is aware that I have an extended profile and I love learning and working with many technologies. In fact, I need to understand and master everything that a web developer might happen to work with. Since I discovered Python / Django and Ruby / Rails years ago, I have adopted the philosophy of those frameworks. I think it is the way to go to build web sites. They offer a good language, lots of utilities and libraries, a complete framework, actives communities and fast development.

You might be asking yourself “what he is trying to say?” … well, eventually, I’d really like to find some work in Ruby. Lately, I’ve worked with Rails, version 3 and the e-commerce solution called Spree. Since Spree is based on Rails 3, I enjoy working with it. It’s really fun to work with this kind of complete and structured framework.

Finally, It would be great to work in Ruby or Python, but the language is not the only aspect. For me, the most important is being challenged within my mandates and also having fun. And this, can be obtained whatever the language. Let’s see what will happen in the next months …

Satchmo e-commerce platform

Rémy — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 20:50:46 +0000

It has been a while since I tried to find an e-commerce platform which seems to be a real development platform, not only a tool to be configured with incomprehensible settings. Satchmo seems to be what I am looking for and will be the next platform I’ll use for a web store. It is built with Django, so it has all the benefits of this framework and new functionnality coming with Satchmo. Now, the trial step, more to come …

http://www.satchmoproject.com/
http://gosatchmo.com/starting-a-new-store-real-world-project-layout
http://djangositeoftheweek.com/oohgabooga/

Django 1.0 planned to be released in early September

Rémy — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:21:09 +0000

After a long wait, Django 1.0 is planned to be released September 2nd. As some of you knows the philosophy behind Django version management, a version 1.0 does not mean a first incomplete version. In fact, a lot of work has been done since few years. The guys behind the framework decided that a version 1.0 release represents a mature and stable framework. I am very happy of that news and am anxious to start playing with Django 1.0 !

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Installation/configuration d’un environnement de développement pour Django sur Windows

Rémy — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 03:19:31 +0000

Voici les étapes que j’ai parcourues pour installer et configurer un environnement Django sur mon poste Windows. Comme IDE, je me sers de PyDev dans WTP (Eclipse). Je connais déjà bien Eclipse et PyDev est quasi-transparent à l’intérieur d’Eclipse en plus de permettre le débuguage. Au lieu d’installer MySQL indépendement, j’utilise WAMP qui installe en même temps Apache et PHPMyadmin qui me sert pour le contrôle de MySQL.

Installer Python 2.5
Installer WAMP 1.7.2
Installer MySqlPython 1.2.2 pour Python 2.5
Installer Java 2 Standard Edition 5
Installer WTP 1.5.4
Dans WTP, installer le plugin PyDev à l’aide du Eclipse Update Manager en ajoutant la location suivante : http://pydev.sourceforge.net/updates/ (Attention de décocher le support pour Mylar sinon PyDev ne s’installera pas)

L’environnement de développement est maintenant installé, il faut indiquer à PyDev où est l’interpreteur Python :

Dans WTP, allez à Windows -> Preferences, PyDev – Interpreter Python
Cliquez sur New et pointez le fichier python.exe dans le répertoire choisi lors de l’installation de Python 2.5
Cliquez OK

Voilà, l’environnement de développement est installé. Il suffit maintenant de créer un projet Django …… à suivre

Références :

Configuring pydev to work with django