Nigel George > Quotes

“Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of Django’s original developers, says “Code without tests is broken by design.”
― Nigel George, Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS

“Django really is the “framework for perfectionists with deadlines”.”
― Nigel George, Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS

“There’s No Such Thing as Too Much RAM”
― Nigel George, Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS

“If you use custom Manager objects, take note that the first Manager Django encounters (in the order in which they’re defined in the model) has a special status. Django interprets this first Manager defined in a class as the “default” Manager, and several parts of Django (though not the admin application) will use that Manager exclusively for that model.”
― Nigel George, Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS

“forloop.counter0 is like forloop.counter, except it’s zero-indexed. Its”
― Nigel George, Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS

“(In the real world, you’d want to use a custom search system of some sort. Search the Web for open-source full-text search to get an idea of the possibilities.)”
― Nigel George, Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS

“forloop.first is a Boolean value set to True if this is the first time through the loop. This is convenient for special-casing:”
― Nigel George, Mastering Django: Core: The Complete Guide to Django 1.8 LTS