Sessions at DjangoCon US 2010 on Thursday 9th September

A panel to discuss the future of no-sql/non-related databases in Django.

While pre-optimization is often the root of all evil, knowing how to think about performance and scalability are important skills for any geek. Learn about all the knobs you didn't know you could or should tweak.

This talk will be on methods of reading code for comprehension. While the project will be walking through various third-party Django apps, the experiences and conclusions are drawn from joining a large, existing Django project which lacked documentation.

Message queues are a potential solution for any site that needs to facilitate robust asynchronous operations on your website including carrying out intensive or long-running actions or synchronizing off-site services. We will look at how PBS has used Celery and RabbitMQ to provide more reliable service and how to set up a robust message queue solution in a cloud hosting environment.

For the past few years the reusable application paradigm has been considered one of the major selling points of Django, however the common wisdom about what it means to make an application reusable isn't really accurate. This talk is going to discuss ways to truly make your applications reusable across *any* project.

A tour through four common "multiple database" usage patterns and how they can be implemented and utilised with Django. We'll talk about the strengths and weaknesses of each pattern and why you might not need any of them.

Hierarchical data sprouts up almost everywhere, but not all trees look alike. Learn to how tell them apart and love them all in Django.

Exploring the power of class-based views, their current status and how the concepts behind them can be applied to other areas.

Using tools such as Pylint, Nose, and Coverage.py with the Hudson continuous integration server to monitor your code quality.

A set of short five-minute talks on various subjects.