The future of dbsettings published on Nov 2, 2007

I took a look at Satchmo recently, and I noticed that its new configuration system (now in Satchmo 0.6) looked vaguely familiar. I had a brief conversation with Bruce about it, and it turns out he forked dbsettings! And I mean that in a good way.

As it turns out, they had issues with their previous configuration system (a mess of settings files, it looks like), and dbsettings looked similar to something they could use. Of course, they had …

Django Projects published on Nov 1, 2007

Thanks, James, for giving me a heads-up about National Blog Posting Month. It’s unfortunate that I heard about it with just one hour left on November 1, but I’ll give it a shot.

In the spirit of Malcolm’s TODO list (sorry, can’t find the link offhand), I thought I’d outline a few things I’m currently thinking about and/or working on for Django in the near future. This probably isn’t complete, but it …

My very own mini-sprint published on Sep 7, 2007

Perhaps in anticipation of next week’s sprint, or maybe due to just plain luck of the draw, I made major progress on three separate projects today. I feel tired, but exhilarated at the same time. If this is what a sprint feels like, I want to take part. Badly.

First, my dbsettings project just gained a comprehensive test suite, which means it’s finally in a complete condition. Unless somebody has major features or bugs, it’s done.

Second …

Update on database-backed settings published on Jul 16, 2007

I’ve made a few updates recently to dbsettings, which finally brings the issue count to zero, and adds some new features worth discussing.

The biggest improvement is that it finally uses Django’s cache framework, so it’s able to work properly in multi-process setups. This was essential in order make the framework useful in production environments.

The one caveat is that two of Django’s cache backends aren’t suitable for this framework, and one of those two …