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Posted on August 31, 2008 at 10:37 am

I’ve just bought a MacBook

I’ve just bought a new Macbook and am busy setting up my dev environment on it. Things aren’t really as hard as I though they’d be. With macports, OSX doesn’t really feel much different superficially from any linux distro.

Posted on August 29, 2008 at 5:59 pm

It is true

My dear brother Thilak met with a minor accident this afternoon, and in the confusion the ensued, he’s spilt the beans on Tagz. It must’ve been painful to singlehandedly type the 228 word post (He’s got a cast on his right hand, because of the accident). The UI is kinda crude, but functional. Actually a [...]

Posted on August 29, 2008 at 4:44 pm

Low level template file caching in Django

In one of my django projects, I use a lot of recursive template tags, which seem to cause quite a bit of slowdown while rendering them. I looked at the code in django.template.loaders.filesystem Looks like the template is reloaded from the filesystem every time the a template is loaded. This gets really bad with custom [...]