Simon Willison’s Weblog

ETags And Modification Times In Django. Part of Malcolm’s series of tutorials on implementing advanced HTTP concepts in Django. 13th December 2008, 9:49 am

Queryset-refactor branch has been merged into trunk. Malcolm’s latest Django masterpiece is complete. 27th April 2008, 7:21 am

Queryset Implementation. Malcolm explains the work that has gone in to the queryset-refactor branch. Executive summary: Python’s ORM is probably a lot better at SQL than you are. 19th March 2008, 9:43 am

Django Tip: Complex Forms. Malcolm demonstrates some advanced tricks with newforms. 6th January 2008, 10:14 pm

OpenID and Google’s Blogger. Blogger gets it wrong by displaying a nickname derived from the OpenID URL (in Malcolm’s case, “blog”) instead of the user entered nickname. 30th December 2007, 10:35 am

Django Changeset 6671. Malcolm Tredinnick: “Implemented auto-escaping of variable output in templates”. Fantastic—Django now has protection against accidental XSS holes, turned on by default. 14th November 2007, 5:05 pm

Django changeset 5609. “Merged Unicode branch into trunk. This should be fully backwards compatible for all practical purposes.” 4th July 2007, 2:22 pm

Translations of My hovercraft is full of eels in many languages (via) Great for unicode testing. 27th April 2007, 11:14 am