Tumblog archive for August

ChangeManipulators on only part of a model

There is a cool function in Django for managing forms, and automatically doing data validation and manipulation before updating the database. That same cool function also has a critical issue in it that makes it impossible to reliably only update part of a model - except that critical issue has a critical fix that has been around for almost a year now and has never been documented.

Housekeeping

I've done some minor changes to the website recently to make life easier - including a new website template.