If you ever need to remove a cache fragment that has been created by the cache template tag do like so:
from django.core.cache import cache from django.utils.hashcompat import md5_constructor from django.utils.http import urlquote def invalidate_cache_fragment(fragment_name, *args): cargs = md5_constructor(u':'.join([urlquote(arg) for ...
So a combination of two Tweets made me go to thinking mode the other day. The first one asked: "What would you do/think if Twitter didn't exist tomorrow?" And the second one: "I'll leave Twitter in the coming weeks - 140 characters aren't enough."
Twitter is the ...
So these days I spend a lot of my workday trying to get a Django app up to speed that... wasn't exactly written with performance in mind. Here are a few things that helped me speed up that thing (all without going down to SQL level):
So the other day I wondered if it wasn't pretty cool if Django models would have something like members that are in fact raw queries. On the bus home it occurred to me that this functionality already exists. Just add a custom manager to a model which always returns ...
Well that's what I was told the other day. So I came up with the proposal to misuse django-better-chunks as a makeshift database based i18n system. But since I made quite a few changes to the code and wrote some utility functionality I thought 'heck somebody might need just ...
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