Django Debug Toolbar

This looks very sexy – almost as sexy as DjangoPony.  Its a debug toolbar that was inspired by the PHP Symphony project.  Hold on now, don’t run away just cos I mentioned PHP.  This is pure Python goodness and its damn useful too.  It provides a load of debug info such as headers, exec time, [...]

Insight, Facts and Hmmms

I’m a big fan of Google Insight.  Mainly because it burns time when I’m bored and provides lots of “hmm” moments.  Its a service Google provide that lets you see search volume against a range of other factors such as geography, time, etc.  I thought I’d put a few together that may be of interest [...]

What a Suprise – Even D2H’s Rails Crashed

The man who created Rails can’t even keep his Rails site from going down when Digged. I’d like to suggest he use a framework that just works.

Django and PayPal

Found a nice snippet at the DjangoSnippets site that shows how to integrate your Django app with PayPal. See the magic here.

Switching From Rails to Django: Why?

Rails is crap.  There – I said it.  Apologies to the geek with a peanut dick but it just sucks really bad. Compared to PHP – Rails is Great Yeah it is great – its epic in fact.  But then again that isn’t very hard is it considering how shit PHP is? Stop Stealing Ruby’s [...]

Django 1.0.1

The latest release of Django is here: 1.0.1 Summary of Changes: Comment module fixes. Oracle interface fixes. In-line form fixes. Lots more fixes!! Docs updated.

Python Templating

I’ve spotted two mentions of Python templates on a well known RSS lately so thought I’d throw together a quick intor of the major ones – partly for me to keep track but I thought I’d help the Pythonistas out too. So here goes… Mako This is the replacement for the Myghty template system and [...]

How Could I Forget – Pony Power!!

I heard about this at PyCon during the Django talk.  Its pink, fluffy, goodness – Pony Power!!!

The Decision

Django 1.0′s Top 5 Changes

Well yesterday saw the release of the much anticipated Django 1.0.  Many years in the making its been well worth the wait.  Now although there’s been numerous changes I’ve condensed this to the top 5 changes: 1. Django Comments Although this has been available in some form for a while it’s recently undergone major changes [...]