Tag Archives: cache

RSSmeme - Go the Gym, Idle in #django, Solve all of your Cache Problems

Caching is important; the more you can cache, the less you hit your database, the more pages you can serve.  But I hadn’t figured out how to efficiently cache RSSmeme because each page is dependent on a session variable to decide if you see none/some/all of the content.  I had settled on using the @vary_on_cookie [...]

Which is Faster? RSSmeme or Readburner?

Compare the current top story at RSSmeme and ReadBurner: J-Walking with Reader.  At the moment RSSmeme has 20 shares while ReadBurner has only 12.  I can’t say how fast ReadBurner is but I can go through 50 feeds per minute with my current script.  The feed with the oldest update time as of writing this [...]

RSSmeme - Preview Settings Enabled!

Here’s the deal: I don’t like using GET parameters if I don’t have to.  ReadBurner uses them all over the place; the problem is that it starts getting very tricky to maintain state with GET parameters because you have to continue to pass the same parameters to every link.  So if you use a GET [...]