11 Items for June 2008
Freelancing Gods: Sphinx: A Primer
A good Sphinx primer.
LJWorld.com / New foundation for Django
This is great news for Django and all contributors involved. Django deserves its success. Here's to a great future of Django!
The Champagne of Blogs » Makin Bacon
I never knew making bacon was such a process. And interesting, entertaining read with pictures to salivate to.
Django and Relativity
My default Django settings file has changed over time to now include settings that do not depend on the location of the project on the filesystem. This is great in a team environment where more than one person is working on the same project, or when deploying your project to ...
Django code_swarm on Vimeo
Visualization of Django commit history. I especially liked the near end when the queryset refactor branch landed on trunk and results in a firework like display, then just moments later a couple more fireworks as the other branches merge with trunk.
pytoss - Google Code
A remote deployment tool written in Python with a focus more on shell commands than recipes for simplicity.
mallipeddi's django-yslow at master — GitHub
A very nice Django app following the YSlow recommended best practices for optimizing your website. It includes Django management utilities to minimize and concatenate CSS/JS, version it for cache busting, and upload to S3 and set appropriate expiry and content-encoding headers.
Family Shadows
Everybody hold hands!