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Django's missing join model

Updated: December 31, 2007March 9, 2007

Django has no sense of a join model. Sure, you get a join table but it's unaware of connecting models. The specific issue this missing features causes me is that I can't (automatically) add an extra field in the join table Django creates for me. For example, this is illegal: class Item(models.Model): name = models . CharField ( maxlength = 32 ) ...

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SEO Techniques

Updated: December 31, 2007June 12, 2007

Finding a good Nashville SEO Company is simple. Landing a good spot for specific Google keywords or phrases is a whole other matter. Being an SEO expert myself, I find the best search engine placement requires the best searchable content. There's no real secret. If you're content is poor, your ranking will usually assume the same fate. I noticed Destiney.com is ranki...

ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken with observe_field

December 31, 2007

I found another Rails 2.x gotcha. Seems one is required to add a form_authenticity_token to observe_field manually, otherwise you get ActionController::InvalidAuthenticityToken in production mode. <%= observe_field 'search_term', :frequency => 0.5 , :update => ' target_id ', :url ...

Cats are Macbook Pro users too!

December 6, 2007

At some point I've caught all but one of my cats sleeping on my Macbook Pro. It's toasty warm for napping. Tiger: Sheeba: Pepper: Cloey:

Gmail Crashes Firefox

December 4, 2007

Dear Google, Please fix Gmail so it no longer crashes my Firefox. Thanks, gdonald@gmail.com

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