As we discovered some specific tools, we were able to create a workflow for creating, deploying and maintaining sites quickly and easily using Django.

The end of the year makes me reminisce about all that happened in the past 12 months. Web development at The Washington Times has changed dramatically, both in technology and process.

In the process of refactoring an app, we realized that we needed a general purpose, object-level (or row-level) permission system. So one thing lead to another and it built one. Because of the complexity of object-level or row-level permissions, we wanted to get feedback on the current proof-of-concept from the Web's best and brightest: the Django developer community.