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Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: APIs

2009 November 11

This is the third part of my Large Problems Series. The first two were Search and Database Migrations.

A lot of efforts have come and gone in the Django space, trying to provide a ...

Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Database Migrations

2009 November 06

Continuing in the series of big problems that are mostly solved, we have database migrations. A couple days ago I talked about Search.

Database Migrations

Database Migrations are an interesting piece of the Django community. Rails has the functionality built in, but ...

Making Template Tag Parsing Easier

2009 November 03

In my previous post about template tags, I discussed the two steps required for template tags. Today I will be focusing on Parsing of template tags, and how they may be improved in the framework of Class Based Template Tags from yesterday ...

Class Based Template Tags

2009 November 03

The problem

In Django, template tags currently are separated between a Node class and a "parsing function". The parsing function takes the tag, represented as a string, parses the input, and passes the correct arguments to a Node class. The Node class then does whatever rendering it does, or updating ...

Large Problems in Django, Mostly Solved: Search

2009 November 02

It's been a little over a year since I started doing Django development full-time, for one of them real jobs. Around that time, there were a few large problems in the community that hadn't been solved yet. They were kind of blemishes when you would talk to people ...