Weblog archive

See also: feed of weblog entries .

I’ve been keeping this blog semi-regularly since 2006 and have posted 265 entries in that time. Here they all are, though you might find what you want more easily browsing them by category.

2024

Introducing DjangoVer — November 18
Three Django wishes — November 4
There can’t be only one — August 27

2023

Know your Python container types — December 24
Compare strings the right way — December 23
Set cookies the right way — December 22
Don’t use Python’s property — December 21
Use Django’s system checks — December 20
Show Python deprecation warnings — December 19
Running async tests in Python — December 18
Don’t use class methods on Django models — December 17
Say what you mean in a regex — December 16
Python packaging: use the “src” — December 15
Database functions in Django — December 14
Database views in Django — December 13
Django’s three types of model inheritance — December 12
Raise the right exceptions — December 11
Test your documentation — December 10
Use unittest’s subtest helper — December 9
Don’t mock Python’s HTTPX — December 8
Use “pip install” safely — December 7
Compile your Python — December 6
Understanding virtual environments in Python — December 5
Easy HTTP status codes in Python — December 4
A Python/Django Advent calendar — December 3
Bullets of vaguely silvery hue — October 20

2022

Boring Python: code quality — December 19
A Python 3.11 “gotcha” — November 8
Understanding async Python for the web — August 16
Yes, I have opinions on your open source contributions — July 11
Boring Python: dependency management — May 13
For hire — January 24

2020

Variations on the Death of Python 2 — May 5
More on service layers in Django — March 23
Against service layers in Django — March 16
How I’m testing in 2020 — February 3
Having some fun with Python — January 20
A Python Packaging Carol — January 5

2019

Contributing to classiness (in Django) — March 4

2018

Truths programmers should know about case — November 26
Core no more — November 20
django-registration 3.0 — September 4
Checking if you’re pwned (with Django) — June 18
Let’s talk about packages — April 25
For hire — April 11
Testing Django applications in 2018 — April 2
Making mistakes — March 20
Two new projects — March 6
On Django’s longevity — February 22
Let’s talk about usernames — February 11
On degrees — January 8

2017

How Python does Unicode — September 5
Let’s talk about testing Django apps — April 3

2016

How to break Python — November 28
On Python 3, again — June 10
Things and stuff — May 5

2015

A real Python “wat” — November 15
Destroy all hiring processes — October 19
Wat’s up, doc? — October 13
django-registration updates — September 6
django-registration — August 13
A couple quick tips — July 22
News and such — July 20

2014

Charity. — March 31

2013

Extended media thoughts — October 16
Personafied — September 5
Catching up — August 26
Good tools — April 5

2012

reddit takes a new direction — February 13

2011

Apropos — November 19
Napoleon’s battle plan — August 21
Quo Vadimus? — April 27

2010

A stateful problem — December 24
The news done broke — November 2
django-FUNserver — November 1
On branching — February 2

2009

django-registration — October 14
Let’s talk about WSGI — August 10
On “magic”, once again — July 23
When licenses attack — July 14
In pace requiescat — July 8
An update on the book — July 7
A fun little bug — June 26
Second edition — June 23
Slicehost is smarter than I am — June 3
PyCon ORM panel liveblog — March 28
Slides — March 28
Django 2.0 — January 18
Second editions galore — January 9
Oldest files meme — January 3

2008

Users and the admin — December 24
Why I like pip — December 15
On packaging — December 14
Let’s talk about Python 3.0 — December 5
Generic inlines and Django history — December 4
Another take on content negotiation — November 29
Writing custom management commands — November 14
So you want a dynamic form — November 9
What’s next? — November 5
Slides — September 7
Database heresies — August 4
Let’s talk about DVCS — July 28
Microformats and such — June 29
Designers and developers: FIGHT! — June 26
Media and performance — June 23
Things I have learned about XHTML — June 21
Let’s talk about documentation — June 21
Fun with queryset-refactor — June 19
Why HTML — June 18
Minimal — June 15
Rebooted. — June 13
Kick me — June 7
Housekeeping notice — June 7
django-registration 0.5 — June 5
Book notes — June 3
And that’s a wrap. — May 28
Micro. — April 29
Minty fresh — April 19
I don’t normally do memes — April 10
Batteries sold separately — April 8
More slides — March 16
Slides — March 15
Where to find me at PyCon — March 12
Advertising and me — March 11
Victory for the web — March 3
Dependencies. — March 3
Managers versus class methods — February 25
X-UA-8-Ball — February 19
X-No-Really — February 19
On “conceptual integrity” — February 11
Miscellany — February 10
Media moves — February 7
X-No-Thanks — January 28
Legacy. — January 23
Shared hosting is not a ghetto — January 13
Web frameworks and web hosts — January 10

2007

The why and wherefore — December 31
The future of web standards — December 17
Speaking and writing — December 12
Requiring HTTP methods — December 11
A couple updates — December 9
The magic of template tags — December 4
Making magic — December 3
Clarke’s Third Law — December 3
Where is Django’s blog application? — November 29
Keeping up with the Django — November 29
Performance tips — November 27
Django sprint — November 26
Newforms, part 3 — November 25
User profiles — November 24
Newforms, part 2 — November 23
Newforms, part 1 — November 22
Auth tips and tricks — November 21
Initial data and install-time code — November 21
Let’s talk about frameworks (again) — November 19
My streak ends — November 14
Instant web sites — November 13
More on admin documentation — November 12
comment_utils 0.3 — November 11
Unicode in the real world — November 10
Living without projects — November 9
Moving into production — November 8
Documentation bookmarklets — November 7
URLConf tips and tricks — November 6
“Server startup” and its discontents — November 5
Working with models, part 2 — November 4
Working with models, part 1 — November 3
Handle choices the right way — November 2
Django tips: template loading and rendering — November 1
Be careful with your URL patterns — October 14
Another django-registration update — October 7
Baseball — October 6
iPod touch — September 30
Standalone Django scripts — September 22
django-registration update — September 19
Django sprint wrap (for me) — September 16
Sprinting all the day long — September 15
Tips and tricks — September 6
ORM Wars — September 4
Django, Accelerated — September 4
Honey, I’m home — September 3
A quick survey — July 5
Hacking comments without hacking comments — June 25
Hypothetical framework choices — June 2
django-registration update — May 29
Software Update — May 28
A tale of two redesigns — April 25
Django template utilities — April 12
Quote of the day — April 10
The types will save us! — April 1
Reusable Django apps — March 27
Typo — March 26
Django snippets — February 25
PyCon 2007: Web frameworks panel — February 23
PyCon 2007: the prelude — February 22
About model subclassing… — February 20
Python framework design — February 19
The JavaScript knowledge gap — February 16
A chronicle of the Ages of the Web — January 24
Choosing a JavaScript library — January 22
Let’s talk about JavaScript libraries — January 15
Be liberal in your HTTP Accept… — January 12
OpenID delegation under Django and lighttpd — January 8

2006

Merry Christmas — December 24
I can’t believe it’s not XML! — December 21
Sniffle — December 18
Status update — December 10
My site is smarter than I am — November 22
Django tips: get the most out of generic views — November 16
Comment problems — November 12
Programming tips: learn optimization strategies — November 5
Django tips: auto-populated fields — November 2
Python tips: don’t be too concise — October 28
That’s not Popper! — October 25
The Prestige — October 22
Django and NIH — October 21
How I got here — October 16
Heads up — October 11
The functional language that’s right under your nose — October 11
Django tips: laying out an application — September 10
Django tips: documentation and resources — September 4
Tool Wars — September 3
Django tips: user registration — September 2
Friday fun — September 1
The Rules — August 29
The best of all worlds — August 29
A Web 2.0 service idea — August 28
Let’s talk about accessibility — August 25
Trying something new — August 20
A modest proposal — August 19
Some long-overdue cleaning — August 19
I’m going to predict this now — August 18
Django tips: using properties on models and managers — August 18
Quick note for pydelicious users — August 15
Let’s talk about frameworks, security edition — August 13
Django tips: A simple AJAX example, part 2 — August 5
Django tips: A simple AJAX example, part 1 — July 31
Apropos of even less — July 25
Apropos of nothing — July 24
Helpers, scaffolding, tradeoffs and other stuff — July 17
Django tips: Hacking FreeComment — July 16
Independence Day — July 4
JavaScript, ORM and “hiding SQL” — July 4
Django tips: scaling an application — July 3
Django and AJAX — July 2
Essentialism — June 30
Django tips: the difference between ‘blank’ and ‘null’ — June 28
Levels of openness knowledge — June 25
Let’s talk about Python and Ruby — June 18
Upgrading to Ubuntu 6.06 — June 16
Django tips: Template context processors — June 14
How Django processes a request — June 13
Let’s talk about frameworks: When frameworks aren’t right — June 10
Installing the GIMP — June 8
Django tips: Write better template tags — June 7
Django tips: extending the User model — June 6
Templating languages redux — June 5
Let’s talk about frameworks, DBA edition — June 4
Let’s talk about frameworks, programmer edition — June 3
Let’s talk about frameworks, designer edition — May 31
Let’s talk about frameworks — May 30
Why templating languages aren’t a bad idea — May 24
Django, gzip and WSGI — May 21
The Google Web Toolkit — May 21
And away we go — May 18