3 Blog Entries for December 2007
Django Week in Review, Dec 3 - Dec 9, 2007
This post is a test of a new Django Week in Review format. I'm testing an automated script to parse the Django timeline with some minor edits and additions.
Over the following week I'll monitor a few Django resources and include links to more relevant items. If you have something you'd like included for next week I'm monitoring the Django tag on delicious and Django group on Magnolia, or email me directly.
django-developers list hightlights
Django Week in Review, Dec 10 - Dec 16, 2007
The obvious big news this week is that the Django Book is selling and the full text was announced available for viewing at djangobook.com.
Mailing List Highlights
Performance of a Django website: An interesting discussion on how to profile a Django website with some background information on Apache processes with mod_python.
Models over SQL views - disable regeneration of model: A discussion on disabling SQL generation when running syncdb.
Is 'LIMIT 0' a valid query?: And whether COUNT(*) or COUNT(1) is optimal for various databases.
Putting django on Amazon DB: An idea to write a Django ORM backend to ...
Django Book Gems: assert False
Now that it's been officially released I've started re-reading the Django book, The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right. I'm going to start a small series on nice little snippets on bits of great information from the book as I re-read it.
One I found today while reading Chapter 3 was this:
Are you the type of programmer who likes to debug with the help of carefully placed print statements? You can use the Django error page to do so—just without the print statements. At any point in your view, temporarily insert an
assert ...