Entries tagged with reusable-app

Websocket support for django!

20. July 2010 - view comments

You know what WebSockets are? It's a new web protocol for bidirectional connections between the browser and your application server. This is a huge win over AJAX and plain HTTP since you don't need to establish a new connection for every tiny message.

Like TCP socket but for the web.

It's an exciting new technology - so I started experimenting with WebSockets and with my favourite webframework Django. Here is what I came up with, bundled into a reusable app called django-websocket.

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Introducing django-publicmanager

5. January 2010 - view comments

I use nearly in all projects something like an is_public and a pub_date field in my models. But using this introduces many possibilities to forget to check this values in all places you use the model which would open up everything for information leaks.

django-publicmanager tries to fix this issue with two custom managers.

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Released django-feedburner

4. January 2010 - view comments

I stumbled upon a stackoverflow question that asks about feedburner integration into a django app. django-feedburner is my attempt to bundle this into a reusable app.

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