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Working lad, day one.
Sep. 5th, 2011 06:28 pm( looking downcast )
Having said that, my desktop was in place and working perfectly when I popped in last week to pre-install it, and everything that depends on the local sysadmin and/or the local IT support girl (who is a total fox, incidentally, and who invited me out to lunch on my first day) has been done in plenty of time with nary a hitch.
Oh, for what it's worth, I'm pretty much convinced that the right thing to do is to throw away Django's ORM in favour of SQLAlchemy, because it does all this - and so much more - out of the box. Yes, type discriminants are ugly; but they are a necessary evil if you want your ORM to go fast (the alternative is a bunch of speculative joins; an approach that SQLAlchemy supports for a single database round-trip). What we lose, principally, is the admin interface (for the bits that don't use Django's ORM), and perhaps some of the manage.py capability. But it still looks worth it..!
Having said that, my desktop was in place and working perfectly when I popped in last week to pre-install it, and everything that depends on the local sysadmin and/or the local IT support girl (who is a total fox, incidentally, and who invited me out to lunch on my first day) has been done in plenty of time with nary a hitch.
Oh, for what it's worth, I'm pretty much convinced that the right thing to do is to throw away Django's ORM in favour of SQLAlchemy, because it does all this - and so much more - out of the box. Yes, type discriminants are ugly; but they are a necessary evil if you want your ORM to go fast (the alternative is a bunch of speculative joins; an approach that SQLAlchemy supports for a single database round-trip). What we lose, principally, is the admin interface (for the bits that don't use Django's ORM), and perhaps some of the manage.py capability. But it still looks worth it..!
