Even though Django comes with an authentication system, it doesn't mean you have to use it. If it doesn't fit your needs, it's pretty easy to roll your own. This is a 15 minute walkthrough on how to roll your own authentication system.
Django context processing is a lightweight method to expose variables in your views to your all of your templates.
Django Middleware is used when processing all requests and responses coming in and out of an application. With middleware, you can intercept a request, change it, or even deny it. Middleware is useful if you have some sort of repetition across your view functions.
Django, ajax, and jQuery can be used to create rich, responsive "single page applications".
I've been playing around with the thought of "single page applications", where a web application will only load an entire page once. Every link click and form submit will then trigger an Ajax event, loading new data to the page.
Gloria and I were coming home from dinner when we were driving past the mall. It was closing in 10 minutes, so she made me pull in, park, and purchase a new laptop. What an awesome girlfriend.
It's a little late, but I'd like to post up my goals for 2008. It's great to write down your goals, even better to publish them to the world - that just gives you more motivation to finish them!
Webrecurse is a blog that I update frequently with reviews about software for web development.
I've been using jQuery a lot recently and I've only got positive remarks about it. Here's a code snippet I use with most of my projects to apply events similar to CSS (inspired by lowPro).
This is my personal weblog about mac programming & web development.
It's usually about the technical stuff: objective c, cocoa, and python/django.
