Archive for June, 2009

Making reusable micro applications with Django is not obvious.

This article explains how to make the most easily reusable views.

Template inheritance is attractive because it looks like it will make it easier to re-use templates.

It is indeed powerful to make a website. When it comes to website production contexts, hackers of the Django community find it more interresting to build reusable micro applications: to reduce development and maintenance cost of a project; but that’s not the primary Django objective and thus: not what it was designed for.

This article attempts to demonstrate the pitfall of template inheritance in a reusable micro applications production context. It started as a draft feedback to Gaetano Giunta