One thing which I’ve found surprisingly hard to do in Django over the years is sort a list of items […]
Category Archives: Django
A Quick Introduction to Backbone
Who Uses Backbone? airbnb, newsblur, disqus, hulu, basecamp, stripe, irccloud, trello, … Why? http://backbonejs.org/#FAQ-why-backbone It is not a framework Backbone […]
Observations on the nature of time. And javascript.
In the course of working on one of our latest projects, I picked up an innocuous looking ticket that said: […]
SSL broken in gevent on Python 2.7.9 – a debugging tale of woe
I thought it would be worth writing this up quickly as a blog post, just so it’s documented, though I’m […]
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There is a new version of gunicorn, 19.0 which has a couple of significant changes, including some interesting workers (gthread […]
A Different View (part 2)
In the previous post, we saw how we could use a single, raw query in Django to combat ORMs’ tendency […]
A Different View
One of the consequences of the mismatches between databases and ORMs is that iterating over objects can generate explosions of database queries. […]
Reviewing Django REST Framework
Recently, we used Django REST Framework to build the backend for an API-first web application. Here I’ll attempt to explain […]
Django Class-Based Generic Views: tips for beginners (or things I wish I’d known when I was starting out)
Django is renowned for being a powerful web framework with a relatively shallow learning curve, making it easy to get […]
API First
Recently, we were faced with the task of writing an API-first web application in order to support future mobile platform […]