16 February 2009 12 Comments

High Performance Media Merging with Django, Nginx and Memcached

I admit it – I’m a performance junkie. I can’t stand code that just works but performs poorly. Being said, I recently fell in love with Django (a fantastic Python powered web application framework). In one of my current projects – xarmory.com – the number of requests for static resources issued during page load began [...]

12 September 2008 3 Comments

django, nginx, memcached – the dynamic trio

Inspired by this article I decided to find out if the same technique can be exploited in my current project which is developed in django. My first problem was to come up with a viable cache key scheme since simply using the full request URI as suggested in the article wouldn’t work for me because [...]

11 July 2008 1 Comment

Using IntelliJ for Django Development

About a year ago I’ve switched over to IntelliJ as my primary Java IDE. When I began to dabble a bit in Django a few days ago, I realized that IntelliJ had me spoiled when it comes to Editor Features – especially when working with Javascript and HTML files. Notepad++ – although a great text [...]