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Entries from April 2009

Zend Framework vs. Django Performance

April 24th, 2009

This is not a scientific nor rigorious test…  But, here’s some interesting data for people to chew on.  I’ve got a production site built using the Zend Framework and a beta site built using django.  What’s interesting is the “Time spent downloading a page” graphs from Google Webmaster Tools. The Zend Framwork Graph — average [...]

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Django performance

April 23rd, 2009

I’ve been working on ZapQuiz and still having the love hate with python and django.  Areas that I would like see improved: Template Variables : I’m currently doing strange things like:  <body id=”{% block tmpl_id %}{% endblock %}” class=”{% block tmpl_class %}{% endblock %}”> and then the included template is setting those variables.  Which when [...]

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iPhone Objective-C bug?

April 16th, 2009

Funny bug from XCode and objective-c … warning: initialization from distinct Objective-C type For the following block of code:         // Quiz *qz = [[Quiz alloc] initFromDict: qdata];         Quiz *quiz = [Quiz alloc];         [quiz initFromDict: qdata]; From what I’ve read I ended up with the uncommented code as the operational code, since it [...]

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