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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 speed [...]

As I type this I’m sitting here watching MySQL shutdown after a bad up/down sequence and for the last five hours it’s been rebuiding it’s indexes… Fundamentally everything is down at this point, if it wasn’t for the backend services that are not tied to the database things would be ugly.
I’ve been preaching [...]

I hate sessions, they’re evil.
PHP is the worst offender since it’s built into the language and you end up with effective scalability limitations and turds in your temp file system. django isn’t much better since all of the cool admin functionality is built using the contrib.auth module which depends on sessions as well. [...]

Working with django 1.0 and google app engine… Wanted to set every view on my admin page to have admin permission.

def _perm_admin(rootfunc) :
import sys
module = sys.modules.get(rootfunc.__module__)
for key, value in module.__dict__.items() :
if type(value) is [...]