Lately Read in the Net

Satirische Videos zu aktuellen Themen. Sehr sehenswert. 

Extensive paper on Cassandra and how Facebook uses it.

David Cramer provides an inside look into the architecture of a huge django installation. It really worths a read.

Great article on how to serve media in a very performant way.

Serves images from a local directory, but if it doesn't find it locally, then go look for it on a server. This is useful for sites with very large amounts of static content. Instead of copying all your prod images to dev every time you update the database.

This is an improved version of the reflection.js script rewritten for the jQuery javascript library. It allows you to add instantaneous reflection effects to your images in modern browsers, in less than 2 KB.

Admin for mptt enabled Models.

This combination of settings.py admin_reorder_tag.py and admin/base_site.html gives you the ability to define custom ordering for the apps and models in the admin app.

Add this to your model to be able to get their admin change link from anywhere.

This Snippet allows a view to controle the printed forms on the templates, in a similar way to the fieldsets used by the django admin.

This Snippet allows for your project's apps names to be displayed as you want in the Admin, including translations.

Django: Flexible date form fields accepting (almost) any input at elsdoerfer.name

Das deutsche Fernsehprogramm im xmltv Format.

Variation on dictsort using attribute access. Nested attributes can be used, like, "obj.attr.attr_attr"

A portable Django development environment for Windows.

Intelligent schema migrations for Django apps.

This looks really great.

For applications that require near-realtime access public statuses.

Looks great: A Firefox extension that finds unused CSS selectors.

Seems to be a great application, which helps to build tests.

A DRY method of declaring django fieldsets, finally! Great Work.

This app is a generic way to provide filters that convert text into html.