A developer's personal thank you to the essential desktop software and web services that power his daily work and life.
Introduces django-kickass-templatetags, a library offering an object-based syntax for defining Django template tags to reduce boilerplate code.
A technical deep dive into refactoring Django's ManyToManyField to eliminate raw SQL and improve code structure for multi-database support.
A blogger announces a month-long daily blogging challenge focusing on advanced Django, HTTP push tech, and some political content.
A developer critiques specific pain points in Django's framework, including password reset limits, admin/user identity, and email encoding issues.
A technical guide on creating custom admin views and reversing admin URLs in Django 1.1, with a practical example from a project.
Announcing the release of Django-filter 0.5, featuring a package name change to django_filters and new filter features.
Announcing pyvcs and django-vcs, open-source tools for abstracting and web-browsing version control systems, plus plans for a new Django project.
Fixes a common Django and nginx FastCGI configuration issue where incorrect URL routing occurs due to the SCRIPT_NAME parameter.
Google App Engine SDK 1.2.3 released with Django 1.0 support and a new Task Queue API for background processing.
A technical guide on implementing blog post preview functionality within the Django admin interface, discussing methods and trade-offs.
A Django developer details migrating their personal blog from PHP to Django, discussing performance, new tools, and a custom lifestream app.
A developer shares slides and code examples from their talk on Django forms at the EuroDjangoCon 2009 conference.
A personal recap of the 2009 PyCon conference, covering talks on Python development, frameworks like CherryPy, and tech discussions.
A developer's experience deploying the open-source microblogging platform Jaiku on Google App Engine, detailing a workaround for a file limit issue.
Announcing a Google Moderator page for submitting and voting on questions for a Python ORM panel at PyCon 2009.
Explains unexpected behavior when using Python's dict.update() with Django's QueryDict due to its internal list-based value storage.
Announcing django-filter, a reusable Django app for creating generic filtering interfaces similar to the Django admin changelist.
Explores a performance-optimized approach to implementing inheritance and polymorphism in Django's ORM using a caching mixin.
Explains Django's F() object queries for comparing and updating database fields directly within the ORM.
