A recap of a panel discussion on Object-Relational Mappers (ORMs) in Python, covering selection criteria and unanswered questions.
A personal recap of the 2009 PyCon conference, covering talks on Python development, frameworks like CherryPy, and tech discussions.
Announcing a Google Moderator page for submitting and voting on questions for a Python ORM panel at PyCon 2009.
Explains how to implement Django-like reverse URL generation in a Werkzeug-based Google App Engine application using endpoint names.
Explains unexpected behavior when using Python's dict.update() with Django's QueryDict due to its internal list-based value storage.
A developer details optimizing a Django view to analyze chat log data, reducing execution time and database queries.
A developer details rebuilding his personal website from scratch using Django and Python, explaining the technical motivations and migration process.
A developer's guide to improving Perl skills, covering documentation, CPAN modules, and a review of a Perl testing book.
A Python tutorial on creating a flexible date range iterator generator using datetime and timedelta.
A developer shares their journey revisiting classic algorithms, providing Python implementations of insertion sort and merge sort from the MIT Intro to Algorithms course.
Author's talk proposal for a panel on ORM design philosophies at PyCon 2009 has been accepted, featuring notable Python developers.
A developer reflects on a month of daily blogging, sharing traffic stats and popular posts about Python, Django, and web development.
A developer explains the shortcomings of Python's easy_install tool and proposes using native system package managers instead.
A tutorial on implementing and configuring the Django sitemap framework to generate XML sitemaps for a website.
Explores how Python's design, inspired by economic incentives, enforces best practices like readability and secure coding to benefit developers long-term.
A guide on setting up and running the Django test suite for development and patch testing.
A collection of useful Python tips and tricks, including chained comparisons, dictionary instantiation, and the turtle graphics module.
A developer shares his essential open-source software stack for daily work on Ubuntu, including Python, Django, and various productivity tools.
A technical deep dive into how Django models work internally, focusing on the ModelBase metaclass and the class creation process.
A tutorial on using the PLY (Python Lex-Yacc) library to tokenize source code, covering token definition and lexer creation.
