Sometimes you have large data sets. Most of the time this makes Django slow. For example there are 17,000 suburbs in Australia – so having an address with a foreign key to suburb is going to create slowness in forms… Read More »Choose, and choose quickly: Optimising ModelChoiceField
Yes. Yes you should. There is almost no reason not to, and plenty of reasons why it’s the right choice. Background A universally unique identifier (UUID) is a 128-bit number used to identify information in computer systems. When generated according… Read More »Should I use UUIDs as my model ID in Django?
I’ve been coding in Django for nearly 2 years now and only recently have I needed to code a session variable. It is probably because sessions are mainly to do with login and that was handled by the django-allauth plugin… Read More »Session Variables in Django
I recently came across this bug while working through the alpha of HorseRecords. Image upload worked perfectly in development but in production it bailed out on all but very small images. The solution was to adjust the nginx config variable… Read More »Fixing Ubuntu error “entity too large” in nginx, Django