Windmill Testing Framework

It’s usually a good idea to document cool features you write and tell people about them. I totally forgot about this one, which I wrote during DjangoCon a few months back.

A few years ago I wrote a patch for live server support in Django. The patch fell out of sync with trunk and was picked up a year or so later and substantially improved. But the patch didn’t end up making it in for 1.0 . Luckily the code is simple enough that I was able to use it windmill and add ... Continue Reading

I had the pleasure of attending the very first DjangoCon this last weekend.

I’ve attended a lot of conferences; big conferences, small conferences, very targetted conferences and very broad conferences. I think DjangoCon may have been the best conference I’ve ever been to.

Over the years what I’ve learned to truly value about a conference is; meeting with people in the community, learning and understanding things I care about that would be harder to learn from reading than listening to a speaker, and just generally having a good time. DjangoCon was fantastic on all fronts. Being so targeted (people who use Django) ... Continue Reading