Articles in Django: Month archive for April, 2009

Topics related to the Django web development framework.

Site news wiped clean

Posted on April 10th, 2009 by Stephen DeGrace Link

Well, I wiped out my database table for my news application.

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Queueing Background Tasks

Posted on April 4th, 2009 by Stephen DeGrace Link

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.

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Comment Framework

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by Stephen DeGrace Link

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.

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