When you’re just starting out with Django, it can be overwhelming to see there’s no standard approach to deal with settings. However, there are a few simple best practices that work when you start needing more than the basic settings file. What’s the problem? Django stores all the settings in a project-wide settings.py file. All [...]
The other day, a colleague wanted to know how to avoid callback-cascading coding style in Twisted. The traditional model of writing programs in Twisted is to use callback functions, which lead to hard to understand and hard to maintain programs. For example: Can we make it more readable? Yes! We can use inline callbacks to [...]
My last article, Do Not Use Memcached As a Data Store, received a fair amount of criticism all going along the lines of “Duh. Of course it’s pretty stupid to use Memcached to store data, as it’s meant, as its name indicates, to be a CACHE stored in MEMORY (Memcached, duh).” Since it seems my [...]
