Simon Willison’s Weblog

mmalone’s django-caching. Mike Malone shares code used by Pownce to add QuerySet level caching to Django. It’s a smart implementation—a CachingQuerySet class inspects the arguments passed to get(), and if they’re just a straight forward exact PK lookup hits memcache for the object before hitting the database. Signals are used to invalidate the cache.

# 7th May 2009, 7:36 am / caching, django, mike-malone, pownce, querysets, signals

Using Akismet with Django’s new comments framework. A nice example that demonstrates two features that were recently rolled in to the Django 1.0 betas: the new signals library and the new comments framework.

# 28th August 2008, 10:12 am / akismet, comments, django, python, signals, spam