Django: Querying data from the Python shell

April 13th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Django: Querying data from the Python shell

I needed to get some stats for some research that we’re doing and was happy to see that you can use Django and the python shell to query testament data in a way that’s database independent.  It’s a little unintuitive if you’re thinking in SQL mode, but it is usable and super-helpful.  I wanted to [...]


Drupal and content purgatory

January 6th, 2009 by Geoffrey Hing | No Comments

Drupal and content purgatory

Let’s jut say you’re migrating content from a static site to a Drupal-based site.  Let’s say that you don’t want to migrate the content all at once and want to roll out the new Drupal-based site ASAP and migrate content as you’re able to.  One thing that you could do is to make your old [...]