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I took some time today to push through more of the Django for newbies beginner app.

I made it all the way through the "here's the api" section of the guide. I am starting to assemble a working idea of classes, methods, apps, projects, tables, rows and vim. Probably one of the most fundamental ideas I learned was that in Python, and thus Django, spaces are important. I was running into a wall trying to get the python shell to work properly and it was because I had certain lines set of with spaces and others with tabs.

The current wall that I am at is getting the administration portion of the site working. I copied the example one into admin.py and started the web server but http://127.0.0.1:8000/ and http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ go to the same page. The server log shows that someone is asking for /admin/ but there's nothing there for it to reply with. I double checked the preceding steps of adding it to the appropriate app to settings.py, sync'd the database just fine but when they start in with the url creation my eyes kinda glazed over. It feels like I need to add stuff there but the explination half sounds like it should work as is and half doesn't make sense.

On a lighter note I'm digging the early copy of The Most Scerene Republic's "...And the Ever Expanding Universe" I snagged for review. One of the songs "Don't Hold Back, Feel a Little Longer" has a good electronic sound with the same tonal qualities that I liked from their second album "Population". If you liked "Population" this should please your ears.