Presenting django-devserver, a better runserver
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on February 10, 2010
Presenting django-devserver, a better runserver. I really like this—it’s a Django management command (./manage.py rundevserver) which adds SQL logging and cache access summaries to the console output of Django’s local development server. It solves a similar set of problems to the debug toolbar, but requires slightly less setup and doesn’t inject additional HTML in to ...
django-debug-toolbar
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on September 21, 2009
django-debug-toolbar. The new panel styling for the Django debug toolbar is really slick—here’s a neatly produced screencast demonstrating it (with Gypsy Jazz accompaniment).
Debugging Django in Production Revisited
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on September 7, 2009
Debugging Django in Production Revisited. Eric Holscher expands his show-technical-errors-to-superusers middleware to only show them to users in the group named “Technical Errors”.
Announcing django-viewtools
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on February 17, 2009
Announcing django-viewtools. A really excellent idea—run ./manage.py viewtools --pdb /path/on/site/ to debug a view in your Django project that is raising an error using the Python debugger, or use --profile to run the full request cycle for that URL through the profiler.
Introducing the Django Debug Toolbar
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on September 21, 2008
Introducing the Django Debug Toolbar. Another project inspired by DjangoCon: a component based debugging toolbar for Django. I like the architecture so far.


