Oliver’s Place

This article is the second one in my article series about fast loading web pages. The first article dealt with the Django Framework while this one is about Grails which I have recently elected as my preferred rapid web application framework. Ever since I switched from Django to Grails there was one issue that bothered [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]