Tag Archives: Django

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

February 11, 2008 – 8:31 am

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 [...]

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RSSmeme - Faster than Ever

February 10, 2008 – 8:35 am

I enabled two more speed enhancing Middlewares on RSSmeme.  GZipMiddleware allows all of my pages to be shrunk down if your browser requests a gzipped version.  This means less bandwidth used at the expense of more load on my server; but I think I can handle it.  ConditionalGetMiddleware allows me to cache pages with GET [...]

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RSSmeme - Now With Search Feeds

February 6, 2008 – 6:51 pm

Ask and ye shall receive.  David Rothman asked for search and RSS feeds for searches for ReadBurner; so I added them to RSSmeme.  Searches are basic: I split up your terms, search for them case insensitively in story titles, and “or” the results all together sorted by post date.  Your browser should auto-detect the feed [...]

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RSSmeme - Look out ReadBurner!

February 6, 2008 – 1:33 pm

Look out ReadBurner; RSSmeme is coming for you!  I registered rssmeme.com yesterday and launched the site today.  It was a test for me to see how good/fast of a Django developer I am.  It isn’t 100% done yet; but most of the functionality is there.
Why another one of these sites?  Because it was fun to [...]

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Switching to SliceHost from DreamHost

February 4, 2008 – 2:12 pm

I’ve flicked the switch to move all of my sites from DreamHost to SliceHost.  I’ll be keeping DreamHost for the time being because they offer a lot of storage and I use DreamHost as a backup solution by rsyncing my home directory.  I’ve already tested a few sites; the speed increase (especially on my Django [...]

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