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23rd November 2007 - Link Blog

Django Evolution. Really smart take on the problem of updating database tables to reflect changes to Django models. Code that automatically modifies your database tables can be pretty scary, but Evolution seems to hit the right balance.

Posted 23rd November 2007 at 11:49 pm

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