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2008

mysql_cluster (via) My Russian isn’t all that good, but this looks like a neat way of getting Django to talk to a master/slave setup, written by Ivan Sagalaev. UPDATE: English docs are linked from the comments.

# 21st March 2008, 8:45 am / masterslave, ivansagalaev, django, mysqlcluster, orm, python, replication, mysql

A Toy Chat Server with Eventlet and Mulib (via) Eventlet (the Python non-blocking IO library originally written for Second Life) is ideally suited to building Comet servers; Chuck Thier demonstrates a simple chat server in a small amount of code.

# 21st March 2008, 3:28 am / comet, eventlet, lindenlab, secondlife, chuckthier, python, mulib

Simple Exception Response for AJAX debugging. Neat solution to the problem of Django error pages showing up as raw HTML in the Firebug Ajax log.

# 19th March 2008, 4:44 pm / ajax, firebug, django, python

IronPython, MS SQL, and PEP 249. How Dino Viehland got Django’s ORM to talk to the .NET database layer.

# 19th March 2008, 9:46 am / dinoviehland, dotnet, microsoft, django, python, ironpython, mssql, pep249, sql

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 / sql, orm, python, django, querysetrefactor, malcolm-tredinnick

Django on IronPython. Dino Viehland demonstrated Django running on IronPython and SQL Server at PyCon.

# 17th March 2008, 4:05 pm / sqlserver, python, ironpython, pycon, microsoft, dinoviehland

Hacking Contributed Models. Neat Django trick using monkeypatching to make some minor tweaks to built-in contributed models such as auth or flatpages.

# 11th March 2008, 5:51 am / django, contrib, monkeypatching, python

python4ply tutorial. python4ply is a parser for Python written in Python using the PLY toolkit, which compiles to Python bytecode using the built-in compiler module. The tutorial shows how to use it to add support for Perl-style 1_000_000 readable numbers.

# 11th March 2008, 5:49 am / python, python4ply, lexing, parsing, compilers

Windows Live ID Delegated Authentication. Would make life a lot simpler if they just supported OAuth, but at least they include sample code in Python, Ruby and PHP.

# 8th March 2008, 3:19 pm / python, ruby, php, microsoft, live, oauth, liveid

In-Depth django-sphinx Tutorial. Another neat Django extension from the guys at Curse: easy integration with the sphinx full text search engine.

# 5th March 2008, 12:03 am / django, curse, python, sphinx-search, search, david-cramer

Jython’s Future Looking Sunny. Sun have (finally) invested in Jython, hiring lead maintainer Frank Wierzbicki. They’ve also hired Ted Leung to “represent the wider world of Python at Sun”. Great news.

# 3rd March 2008, 4:08 pm / python, jython, sun, ted-leung, frank-wierzbicki

queryset-refactor changeset 7126. Malcolm just checked model inheritance in to the queryset-refactor branch, with full documentation and unit tests. People have been requesting this for ages.

# 18th February 2008, 9:46 am / inheritance, python, django, querysetrefactor

Mono Beta Launch—Official Linden Blog. The Mono VM is now in public beta testing running LSL scripts in Second Life. The first step on the road to IronPython support?

# 30th January 2008, 2:19 am / secondlife, ironpython, python, lindenlab, virtualmachines, mono, lsl

Python Web Framework on the JVM. An update on both Jython and the Django on Jython project—it looks like Jython 2.5 isn’t that far away.

# 30th January 2008, 2:06 am / django, python, jython, java, jvm

Monkeypatching idioms—elegant or ugly? Guido offers a decorator and a metaclass as syntactic sugar for monkeypatching existing Python classes.

# 30th January 2008, 12:39 am / metaclasses, decorators, python, guido-van-rossum, monkeypatching, idioms

Linkherd—django. Linkherd is a Django-powered startup that offers sub-reddit style functionality. I’ve set up a Django site there as well.

# 26th January 2008, 11:58 pm / django, python, community, linkherd

Django sub-reddit. Reddit are trialling the ability to create custom sub-reddits, so I put one up for Django links and discussions.

# 26th January 2008, 11:56 pm / django, reddit, python, community

Community sites on Django People. Small new feature: I can now add community sites to individual country pages. If you know of any regional community sites that I’ve missed, let me know in a comment or by e-mail.

# 25th January 2008, 12:40 am / django-people, community, brazil, python, django

Django People: OpenID and microformats

In hindsight, it was a mistake to launch Django People without support for OpenID. It was on the original feature list, but in the end I decided to cut any feature that wasn’t completely essential in order to get the site launched before it drowned in an ocean of “wouldn’t-it-be-cool-ifs”.

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Django People: Colophon. I’ve added a colophon to Django People, something I try to do for all of my personal projects.

# 23rd January 2008, 4:58 pm / colophon, django-people, python, django

Caching Layer for Django ORM. Interesting extension to Django’s ORM that adds automatic caching of querysets and smart cache invalidation.

# 23rd January 2008, 3:18 pm / django, orm, david-cramer, caching, python, ormcaching

World’s ugliest Django app. Brilliant hack from Paul Bissex: a self-contained Django application in 70 lines of code which shows off some internals trickery and makes use of a bunch of handy django.contrib packages.

# 22nd January 2008, 1:34 am / django, paul-bissex, python, selfcontained

Django at PyCon. Unfortunately I’ll be missing US PyCon this year (I’ll be at SxSW and Webstock in New Zealand though)—but it’s great to see that there’s a strong line-up of Django related presentations.

# 21st January 2008, 9:54 pm / django, pycon, python, sxsw, webstock, conferences

django-evserver. Marek Majkowski got Comet working with Django using a custom WSGI server that wraps libevent using ctypes.

# 19th January 2008, 12:15 pm / python, django, comet, wsgi, libevent, ctypes, djangoevserver, marekmajkowski

Django Developer Jobs. Just an observation: the Django job market is booming at the moment, with 16 new job ads posted so far this year (that’s nearly one a day). If you want to be paid money to develop in Django there’s never been a better time.

# 18th January 2008, 3:51 pm / python, jobs, django

Django snippets: “for” template tag with support for “else” if array is empty. A neat solution to a common pattern; I’d personally like to see this included in Django proper.

# 16th January 2008, 9:42 pm / django, python, templating, django-snippets

A little something I’ve been working on. Paul Bissex has been working on a Django book with Jeff Forcier and Wesley Chun, to be published by Prentice Hall. It sounds like they’re a good way along the process.

# 14th January 2008, 10:47 pm / django, paul-bissex, wesley-chun, jeff-forcier, python, prenticehall

pysolr. Python wrapper for Solr, the search web service wrapper for Lucene. One thing I’m not clear on: do you need to configure Solr with the fields you’ll be indexing in advance, or can Solr create new fields on the fly to match the data you send it?

# 9th January 2008, 8:50 pm / solr, search, apache, python, lucene, pysolr

Good architectural layering, and Bzr 1.1. Mark Shuttleworth on the growing importance of plug-in architectures as an open source project evolves, as they allow new developers to release their own components without needing commit access to the project. Django is pretty good for this, but more hooks (and a faster event dispatch system) would be useful.

# 9th January 2008, 2:06 pm / hooks, bazaar, bzr, dispatch, django, events, mark-shuttleworth, open-source, programming, python