+==================== conventions for templates & static files
+==================== and NOTES on using the development server
+
+. first off, running manage.py runserver is provided by django as a development convenience but
+ SHOULD NOT be used in production
+
+. second, when you do use it for developement purposes, please be aware that:
+
+NOTE. this whole business is being changed
+basically we come back to the way django has it by default...
+
+==changing== .. the recommended layout for the various files and pieces (py, html, js and css) with django is
+==changing== IMHO really painful; we *SHOULD* use e.g.
+==changing== plugins/quickfilter/quickfilter.py,
+==changing== plugins/quickfilter/templates/quickfilter.html,
+==changing== plugins/quickfilter/static/js/quickfilter.js
+==changing== plugins/quickfilter/static/css/quickfilter.css
+==changing== which I have tried doing for a while but I found myself just hopping around in the file tree all
+==changing== day long, wasting cycles big time
+==changing==
+==changing== .. as that does not make sense IMHO, I've rewritten the tool for gathering these pieces (this is in
+==changing== the Makefile). Bottom line is we can essentially store this wherever we want.
+==changing== The only restriction being that if you have a template that is *not* html, then it *has to* sit
+==changing== in a templates/ directory, otherwise it gets shipped as a static file.
+==changing==
+==changing== .. as a result, we can now store all the files building a plugin in a single (git) directory; like e.g.
+==changing== plugins/quickfilter/quickfilter.py
+==changing== plugins/quickfilter/quickfilter.html
+==changing== plugins/quickfilter/quickfilter.js
+==changing== plugins/quickfilter/quickfilter.css
+==changing==
+==changing== Of course it's a completely different matter once the service is packaged and installed, these
+==changing== files of course get properly separated.
+==changing==
+==changing== .. as a result it is a little bit less convenient to use the development server when you change the
+==changing== layout of your static and template files, you might need to re-run 'make static', so it is
+==changing== recommended to use devel/server-loop.sh instead
+==changing==
+==changing==
+==changing== All this being said, here are our current conventions for storing templates and static files
+==changing==
+==changing== * templates:
+==changing== we store this under templates/ within the corresponding app, e.g.
+==changing== auth/templates/login.html
+==changing== for now this is mostly about html, but the engine can be used for rendering anything
+==changing== including js(on) or whatever (in which case, as stated above, this *must* have /templates/ in its path.
+==changing==
+==changing== * static files:
+==changing== we chose to have all static files (images, but also javascript and stylesheets) in the various
+==changing== proj or app where they belong, with a layout like:
+==changing== where-it-belongs/
+==changing== img/
+==changing== css/
+==changing== js/
+==changing== Honestly it's not yet very clear sometimes what 'where-it-belongs' should be sometimes, and it
+==changing== does not matter too much anyway, given that the code doesn't need to change when we move things
+==changing== around. So in particular it's fuzzy between myslice/ (where the logo could fit e.g.) views/ and
+==changing== even trash/
+==changing==
+==changing== Makefile has a few convenience targets to list all kinds of stuff; the 2 major targets are
+==changing==
+==changing== $ make static templates
+==changing==
+==changing== that would reset static/ and templates/ for you from the other contents
+==changing==
+==changing== * third-party
+==changing== please note that the set of files that actually get exposed in all-static from third-party is
+==changing== hand-coded in Makefile because we tried to preserve the original codebase layout from mainstream,
+==changing== and there's only so much in common between 2 differents js libraries at this point.
+==changing==
+
+
+======== update django database to reflect changes in existing models without any migration system (e.g., south) =========
+
+# older version
+$python manage.py reset <your_app>
+
+#Django 1.5.1 or later
+$python manage.py flush
+
+This will update the database tables for your app, but will completely destroy any data that existed in those tables.
+If the changes you made to your app model do not break your old schema (for instance, you added a new, optional field)
+you can simply dump the data before and reload it afterwards, like so:
+
+$python manage.py syncdb
+$python manage.py dumpdata <your_app> > temp_data.json
+$python manage.py flush
+$python manage.py loaddata temp_data.json
+
+If your changes break your old schema this won't work - in which case tools like south or django evolution are great.
+
+======== update django database to reflect changes in existing models with migration system (e.g., south) =========
+
+As south is already installed , you just have to do:
+
+$./manage.py migrate
+
+if it fails:
+
+1. go to myslice directory
+2. do sqlite3 myslice.sqlite3 [if sqlite3: command not found, do $apt-get install sqlite3]
+3. check the list of tables with sqlite> .tables
+4. if you find those tables that was mentioned in the failure message while running $./manage.py migrate
+ do sqlite> DROP TABLE mentioned_table
+ [mentioned_table = the tables that was explicity mentioned in the failure message of $./manage.py migrate]
+5. sqlite> .quit
+6. $./manage.py migrate