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Django Debug Toolbar

Bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, February 13, 2010 @ 15:43 CST by Daniel Andrlik

Django Debug Toolbar is an insanely useful Django app that you can drop into any Django project and get tons of useful information while developing and testing your work, all in a pretty sexy looking toolbar.

DjDT displays information such as:

  • Execution time
  •  Settings
  • HTTP Headers
  • Request Variables
  •  SQL
  • Template Debug Console
  •  Signals
  • Logging (from the standard Python logging module)

There is a great video on the landing page that does an admirable job showing off what DjDT is capable of doing for you. I can’t imagine why anyone would not use this when developing with Django, unless it’s just plain ignorance of it.

Seriously, save yourself some headache when you are testing your work and use DjDT.

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The Go Programming Language

Bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, November 14, 2009 @ 10:55 CST by Daniel Andrlik

Google has released their own programming language, appropriately named Go.

I haven’t had time to dig deeply into this yet, but I’m seeing some interesting stuff that I like such as fast compilation, garbage collection, easy to read syntax, built in support for multicore machines and of course an open source BSD-style license. I’m looking forward to playing around with this when I can free up some time to do so.

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Haystack - Search for Django

Bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, November 4, 2009 @ 08:02 CST by Daniel Andrlik

This is a sweet search application for Django.

When I first wrote my site, I had to patch the model code to have it utilize the native full text search available in PostgreSQL, and then some truly ugly search code for searching all the models in my applications. Haystack, combined with a true search backend like Solr or Xapian is a much better approach. Looks like a great way to implement robust search on your Django site.

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The basics of creating a tumblelog with Django

Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 10:49 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

I’ve been toying with adapting my site code to do this sort of thing. It’s always nice to see when someone else takes the time to publish their solution. I don’t know if I’ll end up doing exactly the same thing, but this post certainly gave me some ideas.

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The Rise of Contextual User Interfaces

Bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, May 15, 2008 @ 09:01 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

Another very astute analysis from ReadWriteWeb in which they discuss how simple and contextual interfaces are becoming more popular than the standard “Windows UI” approach of “never-ending choices.” The author asks if these simpler interfaces will become dominant in the near future, and I certainly hope they do.

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Coding Horror: Your Session Has Timed Out

Bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 @ 11:15 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is an interesting post by Jeff Atwood on how programmers should handle session expiration in their applications. I particularly like his explanation of why session expiration occurs:

“The HTTP protocol that the web is built on is stateless. That means every individual request your browser sends to a web server is a newborn babe, cruelly born into a world that is utterly and completely oblivious to its existence.” :-)

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Urgency is poisonous - (37signals)

Bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 @ 16:25 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is a great post by Jason Fried over at 37 signals. As he mentions, this won’t work in every industry, but it absolutely makes sense in software. Good stuff.

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Using Django with Appengine

Bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 23:30 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is a useful guide for navigating some of the specifics of getting a Django project up and running on Google App Engine.

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Django Rosetta

Bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 12:09 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

Via Simon Willison:

This is a real cool Django app that creates an awesome interface to help internationalize your site. Allows the adminstrator, and an optional group of designated translators to read and write your site’s gettext files.

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DZone - fresh links for developers

Bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 07:26 CDT by Daniel Andrlik

This is a Digg-like site for developers. It’s still fairly small, but I found some really great content that I hadn’t seen before within the first ten minutes of browsing it.

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