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Redis is a distributed key-value store, and quite useful for sessions. Here's a Django session engine for it.

A couple utility classes for subclassing Django's QuerySet.

Got a new Django mercurial mirror up, that also stores Subversion revision numbers as tags.

Site rewritten again. Third one's the charm?

WSGI is not an architecture specification. Even the WSGI author says so. 'Tis just an interface spec.

Far more important than featureset, raw number of users or, really, any single other property is conceptual integrity. It is the job of frameworks to provide conceptual integrity.

Working with SQLAlchemy made the defeciencies of Django's ORM much clearer to me; here they are.

While most of Django's interface is great, I find some of the query syntax awkward.

I missed most of the Django NIH drama, but at least they invented the right thing.

I describe 5 things that I hate about Django.

Got a new VPS! Yay. I also explain why I'm still using Django instead of Pylons, and show some of the improvements Pylons is making.

In lieu of Django-SQLAlchemy, I describe how I've used Django with SQLAlchemy, at the expense of the admin interface.