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<feed xml:lang="en-us" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><title>Simon Willison's Weblog: brian-beck</title><link href="http://simonwillison.net/" rel="alternate"/><link href="http://simonwillison.net/tags/brian-beck.atom" rel="self"/><id>http://simonwillison.net/</id><updated>2008-09-15T10:46:50+00:00</updated><author><name>Simon Willison</name></author><entry><title>django-batchadmin</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/15/djangobatchadmin/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2008-09-15T10:46:50+00:00</published><updated>2008-09-15T10:46:50+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2008/Sep/15/djangobatchadmin/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://code.google.com/p/django-batchadmin/"&gt;django-batchadmin&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Seriously classy reusable Django app that adds batch editing (multiple delete by default, with hooks to add your own custom batch actions) to the Django admin changelist screen, using best practice techniques of sub-classing ModelAdmin and hence requiring no patches to Django core itself.

    &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;/small&gt;Via &lt;a href="http://blog.brianbeck.com/post/50177198/batchadmin"&gt;Brian Beck&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt;


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</summary><category term="brian-beck"/><category term="django"/><category term="django-admin"/><category term="djangobatchadmin"/><category term="modeladmin"/><category term="python"/></entry><entry><title>Speeding up dateutil: Python's heapq module turns minutes into seconds</title><link href="https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/22/heapq/#atom-tag" rel="alternate"/><published>2007-12-22T13:07:43+00:00</published><updated>2007-12-22T13:07:43+00:00</updated><id>https://simonwillison.net/2007/Dec/22/heapq/#atom-tag</id><summary type="html">
    
&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://blog.brianbeck.com/post/22129050"&gt;Speeding up dateutil: Python&amp;#x27;s heapq module turns minutes into seconds&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
Neat case study in data structure optimisation.


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