MinneBar Postmortem

I gave a somewhat rambling presentation about the DJ Edna project and developing with Django at MinneBar last Saturday. It went off mostly without a hitch, including the to-be-expected demonstration error. I had neglected to test the sign-up functionality on my laptop before the demo and, of course, that’s what everyone wanted to see. Instead, they saw a Django error/debug page (which, in and of itself, is kinda cool to look at — it’s one of Django’s nice-to-have out-of-the-box features).

Had I actually tested registration on the laptop (as opposed to only on my main development machine) I’d have discovered that it was not configured to send outgoing e-mail, such as when you sign-up for a new account. Doh! And the error message “Can’t assign requested address” threw me too. Luckily, it was the end of the session so I was able to graciously get out of it, but for those of you that were there, that’s what the error was.

That’s it for my postmortem comments. Back to the code for me. If you were at MinneBar and happened to see me present, feel free to leave a comment or ask any follow-up questions on this post.

Also remember that you can follow DJ Edna progress on the project timeline or check out the roadmap of where the project is headed.