http://ethanpoole.com/rss/djangoLatest blog entries from Ethan Poole. Ethan Poole is a web developer and a Scandinavian Studies student at the University of Minnesota. He has an unnatural obsession with all things Swedish.en-gbweb developmentScandinavialinguisticsCopyright 2008-2011 Ethan Poole. All Rights Reserved.Sun, 29 May 2011 18:39:01 -0500http://ethanpoole.com/blog/2011/5/29/leverage-browser-caching-django-and-lighttpd <p>An easy optimisation that greatly improves your website’s speed is to leverage browser caching through appropriate HTTP response headers for static files (CSS, images, JavaScript, etc.). My favourite technique is to set long expiration timestamps and then to force browsers to reload updated static content by a slight change in the file path. This technique is fairly easy to set up in Django and Lighttpd.</p> Ethan PooleSun, 29 May 2011 18:39:01 -0500http://ethanpoole.com/blog/2011/5/29/leverage-browser-caching-django-and-lighttpdhttp://ethanpoole.com/blog/2011/5/19/class-based-generic-views-and-django-13 <p>Django 1.3 introduces class-based generic views as a replacement for function-based generic views. This new feature provides a more elegant solution to the long-standing issue of date evaluation in urls.py.</p> Ethan PooleThu, 19 May 2011 07:32:26 -0500http://ethanpoole.com/blog/2011/5/19/class-based-generic-views-and-django-13http://ethanpoole.com/blog/2010/8/16/why-i-moved-django-php <p>After working for years with <span class="caps">PHP</span>, I developed a project using Django and loved every bit of it.</p> Ethan PooleMon, 16 Aug 2010 07:24:31 -0500http://ethanpoole.com/blog/2010/8/16/why-i-moved-django-php