Django miscellany
My colleagues got hit by this issue the other day. It's a definite annoyance, and just for the record here's my version, just on the off chance that os.curdir is different.
import os
this = os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__))
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
"%s/jobs/templates" % this,
)
On other things I integrated django-openid the other day into a Django site and its really nice. It worked really well, although I do have to find a way of altering the templates to go nicely into my Page Templated site. I do have to put in some work to the login screen. I have to explain the OpenId login, without making it too daunting and provide an easy way to create an account.
Finally I had a quick play with Google maps. Want to show a map based on a UK postcode? How about:
var postcode = "L7 9NJ";
if (postcode != "") {
if (GBrowserIsCompatible()) {
var map = new GMap2(mapnode);
var lookup = new GClientGeocoder();
lookup.setBaseCountryCode('uk');
map.addControl(new GSmallMapControl());
lookup.getLatLng(postcode, function(point){
map.setCenter(point, 12);
});
}
}
Yay. Not the encoding has to done with setBaseCountryCode as UK, not .co.uk or gb. Otherwise it centres on Germany, not Liverpool.