Django

Django is a web framework written in Python. I've written a few extensions to it which may prove useful to some people, and am gradually putting them up here. Generally speaking they are hosted on github, meaning that I consider them abandonware: they do what I need, and I've put them on a DVCS so you can play around with them easily, but I'm unlikely to pull changes back into my copy.

Feel free to get in touch about any of this.

• django_concurrent_text_server adds a new command to manage.py: runconcurrentserver, which can run the dev server in either a forked or threaded variant
• django_session_stashable provides a mixin to make it easy to stash and retrieve model objects from the session, useful when implementing deferred registration (see below)
• django_auto_sluggable gives a Model subclass which contains and manages a slug field automatically
• django_audited_model takes care of created_by and modified_by fields for you
• django_exceptional_middleware makes it easier to template HTTP responses other than 404, 500 and 200

I've also written some blog posts on Django, and will try to collect them here as makes sense. You could also search my site for Django-related gubbins.

• Implementing deferred registration with Django, introducing django_session_stashable
• Exceptional HTTP status codes in Django, introducing django_exceptional_middleware under its original name of django_custom_rare_http_responses