Google AppEngine has just came out of "Preview" today, & changed the pricing model & quotas accordingly. A major change in the pricing model is that instead of charging for the total CPU time of DB operations, they are now charged by the number of DB operations. This means that instead of tunning the DB operations themselves, a much better approach will be to just batch them together (when possible).
Some notes & source-code from the talk given in TheJunction. Links to more source code & resources can be found at the bottom of this post.
Screencast recording
(not the actual talk, but almost identical):
In the last conference of the Israeli Internet Association, there was a day-long Django workshop by one of its founders - Jacob Kaplan-Moss. It was intended for people new to Python & Django & I highly recommend it for anyone wishing to start learning Django.
Here's the full video of the workshop (slides are also available under each video).
Enjoy.
Introduction
Confucius Task Manager or simple Conficius. The idea is standing behind was to create an interactive, annoying, really annoying tool which is able to manage your life daily TODO list, makes sure you are making progress in your current task, reminds you about your uncompleted work, and again makes sure and reminds you and, finally, rates you progress at end of the day.
How it works
Check out this quick & to-the-point comparison of the leading RAD web frameworks:
http://prezi.com/n9re7-x9guah/django-and-rails-and-grails-oh-my/
DjangoCon.eu 2010 is almost over (the conference is split to 3 days of lectures & 2 days of sprints) & the videos/slides are already available, & highly recommended!
* Videos
BTW, the conference this year was co-organized by Idan Gazit (who gave a talk in the TCE on Django). Feedback on it is really good, so lot's of kudos to Idan!!
A nice & detailed article comparing the Drupal CMS & the Django framework:
http://birdhouse.org/blog/2009/11/11/drupal-or-django/
It provides a nice overview of the 2. The authors conclude that:
A recent study measured the productivity of using Python+Django vs. C#+ASP.NET, in terms of user-stories per week. The results are that 1 Django developer is equivalent to 2 ASP.NET developers, productivity-wise:
http://kurtgrandis.com/blog/2010/02/24/python-django-vs-c-asp-net-produc...
The Django team that participated in the benchmark, BTW, had no prior experience with Django, which probably implies that the difference can be even higher.