DAjax Project - Ajax for your Django Project

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Feb. 23, 2010
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Describe as "a powerfull tool to easily and super-fastly develop asynchronous presentation logic in web applications using python and almost no lines of JS source code." DAjax currently supports up to four of the most popular JS frameworks: Prototype, jQuery, Dojo and mootols. The project site has some examples and links to documentation which is hosted over on the Github repository -http://github.com/jorgebastida/django-dajax

Quick Admin Docs with Simpleadmindoc

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Feb. 22, 2010
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Simpleadmindoc is django application that allows you to quickly create help for modules in Django admin. Goal is to be flexible enough, fast to create and easy to integrate.

4 things to know for NoSQL Django coders

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Feb. 22, 2010
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Waldemar Kornewald discusses his new project django-nonrel which is a port of Django with the goal of supporting non-relational databases. Currently it provides an App Engine backend; work has begun on MongoDB support as well.

Message Queues, Django and Celery Quick Start

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Feb. 19, 2010
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Rich Leland discusses how the team at Discovery.com handles image uploading and their post processing flow, and walks through a quick start in getting your hands dirty with message queues, Django, and Celery.

Efficient generic relations

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Feb. 15, 2010
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Daniel Roseman discusses his solution for optimizing generic relationships.

Django Advent Launches

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Feb. 8, 2010
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If 24ways.org is "the advent calendar for web geeks" then DjangoAdvent is the advent calendar for Django geeks. Inspired by the many 'advent calendar' websites out there, DjangoAdvent is a series of articles about upcoming releases of the Django web framework. Right now it looks like there are 12 articles in the queue but I believe more may be coming. Excellent work Rob Hudson and Idan Gazit.

Django-Voice community feedback app

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Jan. 30, 2010
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Django-Voice is community feedback application ala UserVoice and GetSatisfaction.It was originally built for VerbApp (http://verbapp.com/) and the templates looks really nice. Tipped by Ross Poulton, thanks Ross.

Evaluating Django Caching Options

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Jan. 27, 2010
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Cody Soyland discussing the many caching options available to you as a Django developer and provides some benchmarks using his current deployment stack... "Caching is one of the first things you can do when you need to start thinking about scaling. Among efforts such as query minimization, denormalization, code optimizations, compression, database tuning, indexing, and load balancing, caching remains one of the lowest hanging fruits in methods to lighten your server load and handle huge amounts of traffic."

Reliably saving URLs to a file field

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Jan. 27, 2010
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Chris Adams saves you the trouble if you're looking to easily save a remote file locally via HTTP by using Django's NamedTemporaryFile and urllib2.

Authentication agains Google Apps Domains for Django

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Jan. 8, 2010
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Interesting idea. From the author: "googleappsauth allows you to authenticate your Django users against an Google Apps domain. This means you basically get a single sign-on solution, provided that all users of your django application also have Accounts in Google Apps for your Domain."

Dynamic Translation Apps for Django

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Jan. 7, 2010
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Having gone through similar research myself it's nice to see someone publish a round up all the available Django apps that help manage multilingual content. The author provided a brief, yet critical review of each app. Good read.

RESTful Web apps with Django, Piston and Ext JS

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Dec. 21, 2009
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In this thorough post, Matt Dorn works you through integrating Django-Piston in your already existing Django project as well as wiring up your RESTful results with an Ext JS widget. He also details extending Piston by creating your own custom emitter.

Jogging - Easier Django Logging

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Oct. 20, 2009
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Zain Memon was inspired by all the logging discussions lately in the Django community, so he wrote a wrapper for Python's logging module called Jogging (pronounced "yogging"). The idea took inspiration from the ongoing discussion found in the Django developers google group "Proposal for 1.2: built-in logging with django.core.log". Zain would love your thoughts on whether this approach is viable for 1.2 or if jogging is better off as an app on pypi. And yes we need to add markup to these posts so links are hyperlinked, etc. Sorry about that.

Knight Foundation to Fund Plug-and-Play Version of EveryBlock

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Oct. 7, 2009
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An interesting idea to continue the efforts behind the popular, open source <a href="http://everyblock.com">EveryBlock</a> application (view source on <a href="http://github.com/brosner/everyblock_code/tree/master/">github</a>) which was <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/msnbc-picks-up-hyperlocal-news-aggregator-everyblock/">acquired by MSNBC</a> recently. Pull quotes: "We don't want to be doing something that just benefits big news organizations," Kebbel said. "We want something that anyone can benefit from." The Knight Foundation is working with advisers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to form a team to further development of EveryBlock and ...

Django-lean

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Oct. 5, 2009
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A framework for performing and analyzing split-test experiments in Django applications. Django-lean aims to be a collection of tools for startups using the Django platform. Currently it provides a framework for implementing split-test experiments in JavaScript, Python, or Django template code along with administrative views for analyzing the results of those experiments.

Washington Post's new 'Post Alert' powered by Django

by Kevin Fricovsky
on Oct. 2, 2009
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The Washington post's new alert feature is powered by Django. Here's a pull from the story - "Jesse Foltz, the front-end developer of the project, wrote the Post Alerts in JavaScript, using the Prototype and MooTools libraries. The back-end, which was built by Lee Trout, is a Django admin where editors can schedule Alerts."

Django-Piston

by Eric Florenzano
on Sept. 27, 2009
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Django-Piston is an interesting new project that has come out of BitBucket which lets you easily create programmatic RESTful APIs for your Django website. If you need to build an API, you should check this out.