Entries tagged with django-patterns

Django Patterns: Model Inheritance

This post discusses the two flavors of model inheritance supported by Django, some of their use-cases as well as some potential gotchas.

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Django Patterns: Pluggable Backends

As the first installment in a series on common patterns in Django development, I'd like to discuss the Pluggable Backend pattern. The pattern addresses the common problem of providing extensible support for multiple implementations of a lower level function, be it caching, database querying, etc.

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Looking at registration patterns in Django

Django uses several types of registration patterns for some of its most notable features. This entry looks at the way django implements its different types of registries.

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