##Day 2!

• In a tuple such as:

    GENDER_CHOICES = (
      ("M", "Male"),
      ("F", "Female"),
      ("?", "Unknown")
    )
  

  … within models.py, the first value is written into the database. The second value is the value that is displayed for the user.</li>

• After writing up models.py, you need to run these two migrations to sync the database:

  python manage.py makemigrations academy
  python manage.py migrate academy
  

• Adding the -p flag can make TWO directories! For example:

  mkdir -p project/subdirectory1/subdirectory2
  

• By default, BASE_DIR is set to the root of your project file — the same spot where you can find manage.py.
• open(): https://docs.python.org/2/library/functions.html#open
</ul>

*csv.DictReader(open(csv_file)) will return a list with each row in the file as a dictionary.

• OMG THIS INSIDE admin.py IS MAGIC:

from django.contrib import admin
from academy.models import Invite

class InviteAdmin(admin.ModelAdmin):
    list_display = ("name", "branch", "gender", "date_of_birth", "race")
    list_filter = ("branch", "gender", "race")
    search_fields = ("name",)

admin.site.register(Invite, InviteAdmin)

*If you just want to ‘deploy’ a site so that it’s available to other users in your intranet network (e.g. other people in your office), try this: 1) Find your IP address by typing ifconfig into your command line. 2) Run $ python manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000 in your terminal. 3) Paste in http://[IP ADDRESS]:8000/admin/ into your browser. Theoretically, this should work, but it did not work for me just now. :(

• Every time you change your models, in newer versions of Django, run something like: python manage.py makemigrations appname. Every time a migration is run, a file will be added to /appname/migrations. Next, you have to actually run the migration: python manage.py migrate academy.
• list_display is awesome. So is list_editable.

Thanks much to http://first-django-admin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ for the surprisingly straightforward and short django tutorial.

This post is a part of the #100daysofcode challenge.

##Day 1: Random Note to self: if a div inside a div isn't recognizing the parent div as a parent when it's set to position: absolute, it's because the closest parent needs to be set to position: relative. Otherwise, it'll default to position: static. (CSS) Meteor.startup() { } is sort of like $(function() {}); except we use it with meteor. (MeteorJS) Adjust the height of a textarea with its content:

$('textarea').css('height', 'auto'); 
$('textarea').height(this.scrollHeight);

If you want the ability to write markdown inside your WordPress posts, see:
http://www.elegantthemes.com/blog/tips-tricks/using-markdown-in-wordpress. (I decided on using the PrettyPress Editor.) </li>
• Note: to pull from a branch inside an upstream repo… git fetch upstream branchname and git merge upstream branchname
• If I notice that there are elements inside view:source but can't find it inside the browser elements tab, chances are it's because there was a .remove() put on the elements. (JS) localStorage is nice and lighter weight than cookies. Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone ? Intl.DateTimeFormat().resolvedOptions().timeZone returns the users's timezone! However, this is currently supported on only very limited modern browsers. (JS) This post is a part of the [#100dayosfcode](http://www.thecodingdiaries.com/the-100daysofcode-challenge/) challenge.