A caching API built around the concept of a "dogpile lock", which allows continued access to an expiring data value while a single thread generates a new value.

Johnny Cache is a caching framework for django applications. It works with the django caching abstraction, but was developed specifically with the use of memcached in mind. Its main feature is a patch on Django’s ORM that automatically caches all reads in a consistent manner.

“My first piece of advice is to avoid using @font-face unless it’s critical to the page.”

I’ve written a couple of things recently talking about useful things to be aware of when you’re putting together the URL configuration for a Django application — one covering a pitfall you should watch out for with regular expressions and one touching on the utility of the “url” tag and the “permalink” decorator, and the “reverse” utility — but you can never have too much useful information about URL configuration, because for a lot of ...

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