Graceful Exits

Django’s fusebox sometimes blows one, if you start poking around in it with a template-tag screwdriver.

Use and abuse of the “with” programmatic statement to make your Django template code less mad.

logging.debug(”if only I’d known”) logging.debug(”if only I’d known”) /* is there any way to turn this off? */ logging.debug(”if only I’d known”) ….

Lazy evaluation in Django means you can wait till the last possible moment before modifying what you want from the database.

Simon makes the case for disambiguated URLs. He’s right, largely. I would say as a proviso, though, that URLs need to be hackable by the developer as well as by the user. The internal spaghetti that translates URLs to files in Django and Ruby on Rails is an initial barrier to developing with those systems, [...]