Articles in Django
Topics related to the Django web development framework.
Site news wiped clean
Posted on April 10th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
Well, I wiped out my database table for my news application.
Queueing Background Tasks
Posted on April 4th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
There are times when you want to perform a time-consuming task on the web server but not either delay the response to the user on the other end or have the request time out partially completed. I faced this problem with my gallery application, with the automatic generation of thumbnails. This article talks about the solution I decided on to queue tasks for background processing.
Comment Framework
Posted on April 1st, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
When I was considering how to integrate the Django comments framework into my site, I swear to God that either a lot of the docs that are there now weren't there then, or I must have missed a lot of stuff. Either way, it seems like the documentation that was there was very scanty and I had to dig into the source code a lot to figure out how the framework worked. I missed all the useful stuff that's in the docs now for customization.
Version control
Posted on March 16th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
Recently I got the bright idea of using subversion for version control for this web site. Which is not a bad idea as far as that goes. In researching how to conveniently set up a repository, I stumbled upon the fact that my hosting provider, Webfaction, provides an easy-to-install subversion application. So I went with that.
Introduction
Posted on February 19th, 2009 by
Stephen DeGrace
First of all, I want to say that I'm totally new to blogging, and new to Django. I mean, I rarely even read other people's blogs, even though I often enjoy it when I do, so I suppose I'm a hypocrite for hoping other people might read mine. When I decided that I wanted to build a new web site, and try blogging, one of the basic design decisions I made is that it would be composed of multiple blogs on a variety of topics, so that for example anyone who wanted to read my rants could avoid technical discussions, and vice versa. Hence this Django blog.