Posts from April 2008

Google App Engine First Impressions

April 8, 2008 | code, django | 2 comments

For those of you that have been hiding under a rock for the last 12 hours, App Engine is Google’s answer to Amazon Web Services. While it is less flexible in some senses (you don’t have a complete OS at your disposal), it does provide tighter integration for web applications and even includes a (somewhat crippled) version of Django out of the box.

I’m pretty excited about this mainly because I’m not a big fan of server administration, so I took a couple hours this morning to test it out. Here are some quick notes:

The Good

The ...

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Reusable Django Apps and Forking

April 4, 2008 | code, django | 14 comments

One of the things that drew me towards Django was the idea of being able to create reusable applications that would sit on my PYTHONPATH instead of copied across multiple sites. Coming from WordPress, the constant security updates that required me to revisit old projects began to drive me mad.

Trouble in Paradise

With some real world Django experience under my belt, I find myself re-using apps all the time, but not how I originally expected. A fair amount of my client work comes from building content management systems, so I started out building a generic app like flatpages but more extendable and a blogging app. I dropped them in my PYTHONPATH and started adding them to INSTALLED_APPS on my projects.

Over time, they evolved and improved, but they started to handcuff me. I started thinking things like, “This would be a great feature for Project X, but it would ...

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    08.07.21, 16:16 #
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    Nice base for a reusable Locations app for Django
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    Great tips on how to be a good client to your designer and get the most out of him at the same time.
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    Elegant WordPress admin interface
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