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Real World Django

Brajeshwar — Sat, 28 Mar 2009 18:15:50 +0000

There’s plenty of material (documentation, blogs, books) out there that’ll help you write a site using Django… but then what? You’ve still got to test, deploy, monitor, and tune the site; failure at deployment time means all your beautiful code is for naught.

Read Read World Django as it unfolds the tutorial which examines how best to cope when the Real World intrudes on your carefully designed website.

Python 3.0 released

Harsh — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 06:20:36 +0000

Python 3.0 (a.k.a. “Python 3000″ or “Py3k”) is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. Also, the standard library has been reorganized in a few prominent places.

South brings migrations to Django applications

Brajeshwar — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:13:31 +0000

The main objectives of South are to provide a simple, stable and database-independent migration layer to prevent all the hassle schema changes over time bring to your Django applications.

Django-Taggable

Brajeshwar — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 07:19:11 +0000

Gustavo Picon, announced his new project django-taggable. As the author describes, django-taggable is “An efficient, denormalized and multidimensional tagging library for Django 1.0+”

Django 1.0.1 released

Brajeshwar — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 07:05:24 +0000

Following Django’s previously-announced schedule, the Django team has released Django 1.0.1. This is a bugfix-only release containing fixes and improvements to the Django 1.0 codebase, and is a recommended upgrade for anyone using or targeting Django 1.0.

Mutiny interviewed BGhose

Brajeshwar — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 05:11:45 +0000

Baishampayan Ghose is one of the founders of the Ubuntu India. He has been an active user & developer of Free & Open Source Software for as long as he can remember.

BG was interviewed by Mutiny.in — Read the interview — about Ubuntu in India.

Why Programmers Suck at CSS Design

Brajeshwar — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:58:02 +0000

Programmers tend to avoid doing certain things not because they are inherently bad at it, but because they don’t know how to proceed. They find themselves in an uncharted and foggy territory, without a map, no sense of direction, and with a limited ability to know if they’re getting any closer to where they want to be. Also, when they talk to people that don’t share such problems and find it all too natural and obvious, it’s hard for the two to communicate in terms that make sense to a programmer.

Read the article in Full at Beta Version.

Yahoo! Open Strategy

Brajeshwar — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 07:23:09 +0000

Yahoo! Open Strategy (Y!OS) platform launch gives you something to get your hands on to various Yahoo! Services. Today Yahoo! is making Y!OS a reality for developers through the release of the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP), Yahoo! Social Platform (YSP) and Yahoo! Query Language (YQL). Now, anyone on the web has access to Yahoo!’s tools and data to start building applications for Yahoo!’s vast audience and the web beyond.

MySQL vs PostgreSQL

Brajeshwar — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 06:35:17 +0000

Wikivs have a rather good comparison of MySQL vs PostgreSQL.

MySQL vs PostgreSQL is a decision many must make when approaching open-source relational databases management systems. Both are time-proven solutions that compete strongly with propriety database software.

Joshua Bloch on API Design

Brajeshwar — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:37:32 +0000

Public APIs, like diamonds, are forever. You have one chance to get it right so give it your best.

Joshua Bloch talks about the key points of API design, in easily digestible form.

Amazon CDN

Brajeshwar — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 14:49:04 +0000

Everybody is talking about Amazon’s announcement of their CDN Service which will be rolled out around the end of this year.