Django Master Class 2009

by Jacob Kaplan-Moss in Springfield, Virginia

Note

I had to deal with a work emergency so didn’t get to experience the second half of the class.

• TODO - link to PDF slides in repo

• Caching
  • Cache backends to use
  • Cache setup
  • Per Site Cache
  • Template fragment caching
  • Low-level cache API
  • Documentation
  • Cache decorators
  • Conditional view processes
• REST
  • Gem
  • REST properties
  • IOW: “Respect the web”
  • Adding an API
  • Plain Django
  • Piston
• Schema Migration
  • Gems
  • The problem with the Django ORM
  • The main lesson
  • Django Migrations Tools?
  • Django-Evolutions
  • South
• Testing
  • Gem
  • Quotations
  • Django Tools
  • Unit Tests
  • django.test.TestCase
  • doctests
  • Functional Tests
  • Fixtures
  • New fixture tool
  • Coverage tool
  • Mocking tool
  • Browser Testing
  • Exotic Testing
  • Further resources