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After seeing more than a few blog posts and packages attempt to provide more advanced caching capability for Django, it occurs to me I should actually just blog how to use Beaker in Django, rather than just keep mumbling about how “Beaker already does that”.

I'm trying out Disqus for comments on the blog, for one main reason, I just didn't feel like implementing comments myself. I am somewhat wary of services that seem integral to a blog, like where the comments are, which is why I've been leery of using services like this for some time.

I've now updated the blog software powering my blog, which is very long overdue. In the past, this blog was run off Typo, which apparently now hosts their home site off the github (its moved a dozen times in the past 3+ years).

I've been working on some Javascript to enhance the TextArea elements on the PylonsHQ Snippets section, and have noticed that… well, TextArea's suck. The hack I've seen is to use one of the newer features of browsers, the editable or ‘design' attribute's for div elements I believe.

Beaker 1.3 is out, actually, its been out for awhile and I'm just not getting around to blogging the fact. It's a shame I've been a bit too busy lately to blog this earlier because in addition to some bug fixes it has some nice new features that make it even easier to use in any Python script/application/framework.

I'm pleased to announce after a rather lengthy release candidate period, that Pylons 0.9.7 is finally out. Pylons 0.9.7 brings a good amount of changes to Pylons from 0.9.6 while still retaining a fairly hefty amount of backwards compatibility to ensure a mostly painless upgrade.

I released Routes 1.9 today, which is another step on the Road to Routes 2.0. Some of the highlights that people will be most interested that I had previously blogged about now available:

In the latest 0.9 release of Beaker, I've finally added cookie-side session storage. I was a little bit moved to finally do this by seeing that Rails 2.0 had added cookie-side session storage, and heck if I was going to miss out!

It's with great pleasure that I announce the release of Pylons 0.9.4. This release has quite a few bug fixes and enhancements, the most since the 0.9 milestone. It's also likely one of the last big updates before a 1.

This is slightly old as Routes 1.4 was released about a week and a half ago, but I thought it deserved some attention. There were a handful of fixes and some slightly major feature enhancements in 1.