jacobian's django-deployment-workshop
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on February 19, 2010
jacobian’s django-deployment-workshop. Notes and resources from Jacob’s 3 hour Django deployment workshop at PyCon, including example configuration files for Apache2 + mod_wsgi, nginx, PostgreSQL and pgpool.
Writing good documentation (part 1)
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on November 11, 2009
Writing good documentation (part 1). Jacob explains some of the philosophy behind Django’s documentation. Topical guides are particularly interesting—many projects skip them (leaving books to fill the gap) but they fill an essential gap between tutorials and low-level reference documentation.
A quote from Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on September 21, 2009
Years ago, Alex Russell told me that Django ought to be collecting CLAs. I said “yeah, whatever” and ignored him. And thus have spent more than a year gathering CLAs to get DSF’s paperwork in order. Sigh.
REST worst practices
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on April 30, 2009
REST worst practices. Jacob Kaplan-Moss’ thoughts on the characteristics of a well designed Django REST API library, from November 2008.
django-shorturls
Blog de Simon Willison Posted on April 13, 2009
django-shorturls. Jacob took my self-admittedly shonky shorter URL code and turned it in to a proper reusable Django application.


