• Zend Framework vs. Django Performance

    calendar Apr 24, 2009 · 1 min read · django php zend  ·
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    This is not a scientific nor rigorious test… But, here’s some interesting data for people to chew on. I’ve got a production site built using the Zend Framework and a beta site built using django. What’s interesting is the “Time spent downloading a page” graphs from Google Webmaster Tools. The Zend Framwork Graph — …


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  • Django performance

    calendar Apr 23, 2009 · 4 min read · django  ·
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    I’ve been working on I’ve been working on and still having the love hate with python and django. Areas that I would like see improved: Template Variables : I’m currently doing strange things like: 1<body id="{% block tmpl_id %}{% endblock %}" class="{% block tmpl_class %}{% endblock %}"> and then …


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  • Frameworks and sessions

    calendar Feb 24, 2009 · 1 min read · django frameworks zend  ·
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    I hate sessions, they’re evil. PHP is the worst offender since it’s built into the language and you end up with effective scalability limitations and turds in your temp file system. django isn’t much better since all of the cool admin functionality is built using the contrib.auth module which depends on sessions as …


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  • Set permission_required for your view functions

    calendar Sep 22, 2008 · 1 min read · django python  ·
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    Working with django 1.0 and google app engine… Wanted to set every view on my admin page to have admin permission. 1def perm_admin(rootfunc) : 2 import sys 3 module = sys.modules.get(rootfunc.module) 4 for key, value in module.dict.items() : 5 if type(value) is types.FunctionType and key[0] != '' and …


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