We've launched user accounts at EveryBlock, and we faced the interesting problem of needing to cache entire pages except for the "You're logged in as [username]" bit at the top of the page. For example, the Chicago homepage takes a nontrivial amount of time to generate and doesn't change often -- ...
"a platform for rapidly developing websites"
Now that Amazon’s Elastic Block Store (EBS) is publicly available, running a complete Django installation on Amazon Web Services (AWS) is easier than ever.Why EBS? EBS provides persistent storage, which means that the Django database is kept safe even after the Django EC2 instances terminate.This ...
On my new homepage, a combined list of my tweets, bookmarks, and user comments on my site appear underneath my latest blog entries. I use a fun bit of Django code to pull these various items together, sorted by publication date, and I’d like to share how this bit of tumblelog-like functionality ...
"In the case of web2py most of the ORM functionality will work as is on the [Google] app engine."
I've been working on abstracting some Django applications from past projects so they can effortlessly be plugged into future projects. I hate writing the same blog application repeatedly, so this is an attempt to make life easier. I think this will be a fun, little suite of plug-n-play Django apps ...
"applies Markdown and typogrify, and adds Pygments highlighting to any <code> elements found in the text"
This [django] snippet allows you to use YUI's autocomplete widget in a easy way.
"Display performance metrics measured during the generation of a page."
"Implementation of atompub-format and atompub-protocol for Django"
"a generic application for the Django framework that lets you combine multiple RSS and Atom feeds into one lifestream-style page"
"[An Introduction] to the features of Django that the experts know."
A simple "nofollow" filter for Django.
"The end product is an Ubuntu Feisty server using Apache2 and mod_python to serve Django, and lighttpd to serve static media. It uses memcached as its caching backend, and uses Postgres8.2 as its database."
