With my recent release of a new version of this site, I finally made the jump from using mod_python to using mod_wsgi. This change had been a long time coming, but was made slightly less than straight forward by my desire to deploy to virtualenv environments.
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New version of jmoiron.net
May 25th 2009 12:39:50
As you would probably expect with how problematic and generally incomplete it feels, this blog is based upon a long and wretched history of failed or aborted blog projects. Beginning in February 2002, when I wrote far more often about completely uninteresting things (a trend that's caught on with the web at large), this blog has seen 7 past versions:
QuerySet Caching
May 18th 2009 21:48:47
Spent a few hours today trying to figure out how to do QuerySet caching in django in some kind of transparent manner. We are working on a multi-tiered caching system, sort of like that which was released by the pownce guys a few weeks ago, except with a bit more there there.
Be careful with metaclasses
May 13th 2009 23:40:14
Python metaclasses can be really intense. SQLObject's declarative metaclass base, popularized by Django's ORM, has been as useful a DSL as the python world has had in a long time. But please be careful when using metaclasses in a way that makes it difficult to extend via subclassing!
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