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Django 1.0!

Written by Jason Davies Topics: django, programming, python

After countless hours of hard work by many talented people, it is a pleasure to see the long-awaited version 1.0 released to the world. Finally, a version number that reflects the quality of the codebase, which in fact I have been using in production for many months.

New features that I am excited about include:

Re-factored admin application

Developed under the newforms-admin branch for a long while, the re-factored admin application is much more customisable and means I don't have to do so many ugly hacks and workarounds any more. See the admin reference for details.

Re-factored ORM

The internals of the ORM were pretty much rewritten from scratch in the queryset-refactor branch, resulting in many annoying bugs being fixed. This also includes support for model inheritance, which allows for more elegant models. See the wiki for more details.

Have fun!

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Django Code_Swarm

Written by Jason Davies Topics: django, video

Awesomeness, from Brian Rosner:

Django code_swarm from Brian Rosner on Vimeo.

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Adds a hidden footer to the bottom of every text/html page containing a list of SQL queries executed and templates that were loaded (including their full filesystem path to help debug complex template loading scenarios).

To use, drop in to a file called 'debug_middleware.py' on your Python path and add 'debug_middleware.DebugFooter' to your MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES setting.

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Twubble Finding Friends?

Written by Jason Davies Topics: facebook, social-networking, twitter, twubble

Twubble searches your Twitter friend graph and picks people you might like to follow.

This is the kind of thing that Facebook should let developers do. Due to the restrictive developer API, however, you can only see friends of friends who are friends with you.

According to Twubble, I should make friends with factoryjoe!

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