Monthly Archives: July 2007
Stored Procedures and Django
Since it is not always possible, or efficient, to accomplish the database queries you would like using the Django Database API, many developers will find themselves needing to escape the constraints of the API and leverage stored procedures. For scenarios … Continue reading
Geocoding with Python
The following code snippet is intended to demonstrate how you can leverage Python and the Google Maps/Geocode API to query the coordinates of two zip codes and then determine the distance between them. Both functions have far reaching uses independently … Continue reading
Django on Lighttpd with FastCGI
After having followed the Django documentation on how to use Django with lighttpd and fastcgi numerous times, I had very little success. Being new to Django and very anxious to dive in head first, this was a very frustrating hurdle … Continue reading