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Introduction to Architecting Systems for Scale
04/04/2011 architecture(6)scalability(1)redundancy(1)Designing a system which scales to a high number of requests isn't critical for most applications, but you'll never know that it was important until after the fact, so it's worth putting some thought into ensuring your architecture can grow with your success.
Intro to Unintrusive JavaScript with Django
09/21/2008 django(73)javascript(18)jquery(6)The steps of the novice web developer are fraught with peril. They begin with HTML, then move onto CSS. They learn a web framework or two, and they finally start to wrangle with JavaScript. This tutorial aims to help the developer who has taken their first steps with Django, and wants to begin experimenting with adding JavaScript and Ajax to their webapps.
Findjango: A Django Search Vertical
03/09/2009 django(73)springsteen(6)findjango(3)When I develop with Django I'm constantly searching documentation, trying to figure out new modules and generally looking for answers to new problems as they arise. Today I'm introducing a new project, Findjango, which hopes to being a valuable resource for searching on Django-related topics.
An Introduction to Compassionate Screen Scraping
08/10/2008 python(48)screen-scraping(3)One of the most common quickie projects on the web is to screenscrape a website and play around with its data. These projects are a lot of fun, and can allow for inventive mashups, but often the screepscraping scripts cause unnecessary load on the site's servers due to inconsiderate technique. This is an introduction to the art of compassionate screenscraping.
Deploying Django with Fabric
11/04/2008 django(73)python(48)fabric(1)A look at how to manage deployment complexity with Django using Fabric. Something of a continuation on the post from yesterday.
Two-Faced Django Part 5: JQuery Ajax
12/11/2007 django(73)jquery(6)Moving along in the Two-Faced-Django series, we look at using JQuery for Ajax in the webapp portion of our program.
Digg v4's Architecture and Development Processes
08/19/2012 architecture(6)digg(3)Digg's fourth version isn't running anymore, but was an interesting system to work on. This article describes the system architecture, as well as the context behind those choices, and will hopefully be an interesting read for those scaling engineering teams and systems.
DjangoDash and Drinkfindr
09/04/2010 django(73)Luke and I competed in DjangoDash a few weeks ago, and hey, we actually finished a site.
Using JQuery with Django for Autocomplete Fields
12/01/2007 django(73)jquery(6)A rather rough and tumble walkthrough for using Django and JQuery to make autocomplete input fields.
Replacing Django's ORM with SQLAlchemy
07/23/2008 django(73)The second example in the Loose Coupling in Django series. This one looks at a place where Django's loose coupling is at its tightest: the Django ORM.
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