Elf Sternberg
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Posts Tagged ‘ajax’
12Jun
Bog-stupid Ajax round trips with Prototype and Django
Posted by Elf Sternberg as django, javascript, programming
Introduction When you roll around the web you see lots of web applications that show off some localized capability to get data from a back-end in a semi-real-time manner. The most famous is the “search suggestion” drop-down that comes off Google or Bing, and those are wonderful, but often the Javascript for the drop down [...]
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- Tags: ajax, django, javascript, json, Literate Programming, noweb, prototype, python
20May
Fixing an omission from Django’s simplejson: iterators, generators, functors and closures
Posted by Elf Sternberg as javascript, programming, python, Uncategorized
Most people encountering the Ajax components of Django for the first time usually encounter this pairing: from django.utils import simplejson … return HttpResponse(simplejson.dumps(some_python_obj)) For most applications, this is enough. But I’m especially fond of iterators, generators, functors and closures, dense components that express one thought well: the structure of a tree, or the rows of [...]
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- Tags: ajax, closures, django, dojo, functors, generators, iterators, javascript, json, python, simplejson
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