Monthly Archives: July 2008

Django tip: Translating your application names (app_label)

Posted on July 20, 2008 by benjamin

This MUST be a common issue for international developers: We use some geeky English name for our application and afterwards find that the translated admin index looks a little silly in the eyes of our native speaking users. Apparently a … Continue reading →

Posted in Django | Tagged , , , | 2 Comments

Creative Live! Cams on Ubuntu 8.04 using ov51x-jpeg

Posted on July 16, 2008 by benjamin

First of all: It should work fine.. so be optimistic But you will need to compile a kernel module (ov51x-jpeg) to get it running. Please have a look at Creative’s list to see if your camera is using this module … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers | Tagged , , , , , | 2 Comments

Django auto-translation of field values

Posted on July 14, 2008 by benjamin

What’s really nice in Django is the gettext implementation and the _ convention. But when running django-admin.py makemessages we’re not generating any translations for dynamic values such as field values. So let’s say that we have a model and we’d … Continue reading →

Posted in Django | Tagged , , | 2 Comments

Tip: Extending Django flatpages

Posted on July 12, 2008 by benjamin

I did a Google search and since nothing came up, I’m writing this little tip on creating your own CMS by extending Django’s flatpages. What’s good about flatpages is that they’re included in Django and has some basic code to … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Django, Web | Tagged , | 4 Comments

Rio Karma, Banshee 1.0 and Ubuntu 8.04

Posted on July 8, 2008 by benjamin

Here’s a little step-by-step guide to getting your Rio Karma running on Ubuntu 8.04 with the new amazing Banshee 1.0. But first a little appetizer: What we’ll do is fetch some stuff to get the compilation of Banshee working, patch … Continue reading →

Posted in Computers, Multimedia | Tagged , , | 10 Comments