So at work we have been focusing on real time web services a lot lately. Due to this I've been getting a chance to play with some awesome new technologies that really lend themselves to the real time web. One of these new technologies is the Tornado Web...

So right up front let me just say that I love Django. This should come as no surprise to anyone who has been to my site. I think its a great framework and I really enjoy working with it. That being said all too often my clients look like a deer in...

I've seen a lot of people out there looking for a good IDE for doing Django work. Personally I'm a pydev guy. I have been using Eclipse for so long for everything else it's very natural to keep on that path. However there are definitely other alternatives...

Just started a new open source python wrapper for the twitter rest and search apis. I'm trying to stay as 1 to 1 as I can with the names and function arguments so its pretty much an exact match to the twitter api docs. Also adding a django test app that...

Here is a little hack I made to the auth.login_required decorator that checks to see if the user account has the is_active flag set as well as being logged in. Nothing earth shattering here but I find it useful. If you look at the original login_required...

edit: This example has since been added to the official Django Docs for pagination. Big thanks to Scot Hacker for taking the initiative to submit the doc patch and make this happen (IE I'm far to lazy to submit it on my own). So I pulled the latest...