Category: Django

The kind of comments that will get ignored on Django's Trac

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Participating in any Open Source project can be frustrating if things do not move along as quickly as you would like. Django is a fairly popular project, whose developers are volunteers with limited resources, and with a pretty big commitment to stability and backwards compatibility, so there will always be people who get frustrated. This blog post is intended to help people in that situation be helpful, and to not actually make things worse.

Django, Python 2.5 and memory usage

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After reading that in Python 2.5 some big memory leaks are fixed, I just switched a Django site from Python 2.4 to Python 2.5. I wasn't disappointed -- the combined memory usage of my Apache processes (which are using mod_python) went from 100Mb to 60Mb. So, for anyone else wanted to conserve memory, this is the first thing I'd suggest!

Django dreaming

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Remembering the "Don't Repeat Yourself" mantra, the following apps would be awesome...

Cross Site Request Forgeries

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I've implemented a module that provides protection against Cross Site Request Forgeries for Django - and as always with both Python and Django, I've got that "surely it can't be that easy" feeling...