Welcome to “My notes”!

This is a compilation of things that I stumbled upon or learned during my work. I decided to make it public to give something back to the Open Source community which equipped me with most of the tools I use (Linux, Python, Django, etc.).

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Contents:

• Django 1.3, 1.4 tips&tricks
  • settings.py
  • (De facto) standard add-ons
  • MySQL 5.x
  • Forms
  • Rarely-known (and/or undocumented) Django features
  • REST, HTTP and Django
    • URLs, application structure
    • Django and HTTP caching for static assets
    • HTTP caching for Django views
    • Useful links
    • Other HTTP performance tips
  • Non-HTTP caching and Django
  • Avoid Apache :)
• Django 1.4 gotchas
• Browsers, HTML5 & JavaScript
  • The hashbang hell
  • HTML5
    • General
    • Outlining
    • Headings
  • Browsers’ bfcache
  • jQuery Mobile
  • JavaScript
• Python 2.x rarities
  • Slicing, extended slicing, Ellipsis - a[i:j:step], a[i:j, k:l], a[..., i:j]
  • NotImplemented
  • iter(obj, sentinel)
  • Rot13 source encoding
  • Negative *round()*
  • Reversing a string or a list (well, a sequence)
• Python 2.x type system, metaclasses and more
  • General information
  • Built-in types
  • Prerequisites for the subsequent sections
  • Object creation a.k.a. class instantiation
  • Special case of object creation: class declaration a.k.a. metaclass instantiation
  • A more complex example of “class + metaclass + instantiation” hell
  • Another - even more complex - example of “class + metaclass + instantiation” hell
  • Further reading
• Useful services
  • Logs, monitoring, metrics
  • PaaS
  • CI
  • Usability/browser testing
  • Misc APIs
  • Private cloud storage
• Miscellaneous tips&tricks
  • Postfix
  • git
  • Virtualbox (+ Ubuntu)
• Online books

Indices and tables

• Index
• Search Page