djedna.org » speaking http://www.djedna.org/blog Software For The Rockstar's Geek Friend Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:36:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en http://www.djedna.org/blog http://www.djedna.org/blog/favicon.ico djedna.org MinneBar Postmortem http://www.djedna.org/blog/2008/05/15/minnebar-postmortem/ http://www.djedna.org/blog/2008/05/15/minnebar-postmortem/#comments Thu, 15 May 2008 15:36:58 +0000 thomas http://www.djedna.org/blog/2008/05/15/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).

“Can’t assign requested address”

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.

]]> http://www.djedna.org/blog/2008/05/15/minnebar-postmortem/feed/ MinneBar 08 Schedule http://www.djedna.org/blog/2008/05/07/minnebar-08-schedule/ http://www.djedna.org/blog/2008/05/07/minnebar-08-schedule/#comments Wed, 07 May 2008 22:53:18 +0000 thomas http://www.djedna.org/blog/2008/05/07/minnebar-08-schedule/ It was released last night. I go on at 11:00 in room 324. See you Saturday.

]]> http://www.djedna.org/blog/2008/05/07/minnebar-08-schedule/feed/ MinneBar http://www.djedna.org/blog/2008/04/23/minnebar/ http://www.djedna.org/blog/2008/04/23/minnebar/#comments Wed, 23 Apr 2008 19:34:11 +0000 thomas http://www.djedna.org/blog/2008/04/23/minnebar/ I’ll be giving my DJ Edna and Django presentation at the next MinneBar BarCamp on Saturday, May 10th, 2008. So, for those of you that didn’t brave the snowstorm to see me give the presentation (for the first time) at the March 2008 Ruby Users of Minnesota meeting, this is your chance.

This will be my first BarCamp and I’m excited to see what all my developer friends have been raving about.

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