Gevent, Long-Polling & You
A big focus lately (as far as web technology trends go) is the move to "real-time". "Real-time" is a loaded terms that can mean a lot of things to different people, but what is consistent ...
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Haystack 1.2 Released
Haystack 1.2 was released yesterday (PyPI). It ships with n-gram (autocomplete) support for Solr & Whoosh, compatibility with Whoosh 1.8.X & a host of bugfixes. You can find more details on the mailing list ...
A Guide to Testing in Django #2
As part two in this series on testing in Django (part I if you missed it), we're going to continue expanding the test suite on the venerable "polls" app.
As with the previous post ...
A Guide to Testing in Django
For many people, testing their Django applications is a mystery. They hear that they should be testing their code but often have no clue how to get started. And when they hit the testing docs ...
Transition
Spring is a time of change and I have a change of my own in store. I am sad & excited to announce that I'll be leaving Mediaphormedia & running Toast Driven as my full-time business ...
Redesign
Its been a couple years since I originally launched the Toast Driven site. In that time, it has fallen to the wayside as other projects became more important. So it was due for an overhaul ...
Better Local Settings
A common convention I've seen in the Django community is to place code like the following at the bottom of your settings file:
# ``settings.py``
# Lots of typical settings here.
# ... then ...
try:
from local_settings ...Haystack 1.0 Final Released
Haystack 1.0.0-final has been released (via the packages at PyPi or GitHub). You can also install it via ``sudo pip install django-haystack`` or via git from GitHub.
The goal of Haystack is to ...
Haystack 1.0.0-rc1
After almost a full year of development, Haystack has been marked as 1.0.0, release candidate 1. I'd recommend all users upgrade, as it is what Haystack 1.0.0-final will be unless ...
Scripting tmux
In my day-to-day work, I find myself needing full mini-environments for several of the projects I work on. Frequently, I'll need to pop a handful of terminals and start various daemons or do environment ...
Postmortem: Django Dash 2009
Now that the Dash is over, I wanted to write up a little postmortem with some thoughts about how things went. To understate things, this year's Django Dash was amazing. In virtually every regard ...
2009 Django Dash Complete
The 2009 Django Dash is done. The site (http://alt.djangodash.com/) has the full commit logs and some interesting stats (overall, per team, per dasher). I'll do a better post-mortem tomorrow. Congratulations to ...
'Twas The Night Of The Dash
I almost fell out of my chair. Courtesy of @donspauding:
[10:20pm] donspaulding: More rapid than psyco, these coders they came, [10:20pm] donspaulding: And daniel_afk adminned and knew each by name, [10:20pm] donspaulding ...
Django Dash 2009 Has Begun!
The 2009 Django Dash has begun! We've got 62 teams competing this year so it should be a great competition. You can follow the progress online at the alternate site (due to some hosting ...
Django Dash 2009 Registration Is Open!
The 2009 Django Dash is now open for registration! The Dash is a 48-hour programming competition to build the best Django-powered website. People who want to compete should mosey on over to the registration page ...
Announcing Haystack - Modular search for Django
Search has long been a slightly painful affair within the Django community. There have been numerous attempts at search, each with a different API and feature set. People who are new to the community have ...
Things Afoot
It's been quiet here lately for many reasons. Part burnout from the November blogging, part being busy with work. But the other component has been a couple interesting open source projects and community projects ...
itty - A Sinatra-inspired micro-framework
A couple nights ago, I was talking with Matt and Christian. They were in the process of looking at Heroku and Sinatra. Matt lamented that Sinatra was perfect for low-level, web service-y things and how ...
Django Dash 2009
It's getting to be that time of year again, so (a day late) let's throw this out there. Since many people enjoyed it last year, I will be running the Django Dash again ...
Using Solr Multicore
At work, Solr is the search backend of choice. In the process of upgrading to Solr 1.3.0, a cursory search for "solr multicore" yielded very little in the way of how to go ...