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Very simple benchmarking

I’ve used CouchDB for a project at work and now I’m just seeing opportunities for using it everywhere. At the moment I’m just starting out a new project (more on that later) and I think CouchDB just fits the bill (lots of reads, high availability, etc.) So, how about I benchmark CouchDB first and see [...]

Posted 30 November 2008 § couchdb § misc ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged: ,

Django gotchas - part 2

Continuing with my posts on Django gotchas, this article is devoted to writing your custom authentication module. There are plenty articles out there (like this and this) dealing with this topic and even the wonderful Django documentation explains how to do it very well. However I wasn’t able to find an article that dealt with [...]

Posted 14 October 2008 § programming ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: , ,

Django gotchas - part 1

During the last month I’ve been immersed in Django almost full time in my job (almost as I had a small glitch in which I had to develop a C# application for a PDA). During this last month I came across several, as I call them, Django gotchas and I will try to document them [...]

Posted 09 October 2008 § programming ‡ Comments (6) ° Tagged: , ,