DjangoCon: Schema Evolution Panel

The Schema Migration panel by: Simon Willison, Russ Keith-Magee, Andrew Godwin, and  moderated by Michael Trier was an interesting sampling of the various methods used in schema migration.
Simon Wilson presented dmigrations . Installing dmigrations is as simple as installing it in INSTALLED_APPS, and it will registers a few custom admin commands:
./manage.py dmigrate app APP_NAME
./manage.py dmigrate [...]

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DjangoCon: Django Code Design and Writing Patches

A follow up to the “Inside the Django ORM” speak, Malcolm Tredinnick gave his second talk Sunday on Django Code design and patch writing (Aka Code Quality, Patch Quality).
After reading around 6000 bug tickets, certain patterns have emerged in the submitted patches…
Code Quality Matters — funny quote from Leah Culver: “Have you every written a [...]

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DjangoCon: Inside the ORM

Malcom Tredinnick gave an awesome presentation about the Django ORM.
The code for the ORM is located in django/db with juicy bits in the following locations:
django/db/models/query.py (public queryset API)
django/db/models/sql/* (Public API->SQL conversion. Deep dark internals. Does’t know DB, knows SQL)
django/db/backends/* (Individual DB wrappers, third-party wrappers possible. This is where you actually talk to the DB). See [...]

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DjangoCon: ReviewBoard

Presented by: Christian Hammon, David Trowbridge
Review-Board is a python/django based code-review application. In 2004 VMware was approx. 600 employee’s and already had a rigorous code-review process in place. At first simple HTML snippets were emailed around. Fast forward to 2007 and the company had grown to 5000 employee’s, and the previous system of email around [...]

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DjangoCon 2008

I’ve been really, really inactive in posting. That is going to change. I’m currently at DjangoCon 2008, and will be posting a few things about some cool new things I’m learning about.
More soon.

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