Django

Signals in Django is not what you want

Where I add a simple Publish/Subscribe pattern to Django

When I was new to Django and building an application, I soon found myself wanting to lower the coupling between various parts of business logic. In particular, there was a requirement that specific changes to data needed to be logged in a way that would be accessible to users. For instance, when a user would post a message, or add another user to a project, or delete some information from a project, a log entry would be created to record the action. These log entries would have their own list view, where users would then be able to filter and sort through the events to see what had been going on in their project.

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Django - The Bad Parts

Where I rant and vent and blame anyone but myself

I have been working with Python and Django for a decade, and while it has been a joy, for the most part, it is starting to let me down, and I wanted to go into why that is

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