Change Log

This is a running list of the major changes to Full Stack Python since its inception in December 2012. Another way to view the modifications is through the source repository's commit log on GitHub.

2014

March

• Updated logging page with new resources.
• Added new CSS page.
• New intermediate learning links on the best resources page.
• Updated task queues page with better explanations and many more curated resources.
• Added why is this piece necessary for databases, WSGI servers, web frameworks and application dependencies.
• Updating best resources page with newsletters and a few additional beyond the basics resources.
• Adding 'why is this necessary' sections to servers, operating systems, and web servers pages.
• Extracting best Python resources from the introduction into a separate page.
• Cleaned up links on the first ten chapters and added new resources for web frameworks.
• Updated application dependencies section with new resources and initial content description.
• Updated the change log (how meta!) to have a cleaner layout.

February

• Added Bottle as a web framework next to Django and Flask.
• Added new Django resources.
• New sitemap.xml.
• Rewriting all sections to fix first draft typos and grammar mistakes as well as add new content.
• Added task queues section due to reader feedback.
• Rewrote intro section.
• Merged several pull requests (see closed GitHub repo pull requests).
• New resources for platform-as-a-service section.
• Added new sections specified by the community as missing.
• Reorganized ordering of content.
• Broke out subsections for Django and Flask.
• Added signficant content to the WSGI section.
• Converted from RST to Markdown (some of the downstream tools I want to use work better with Markdown than RST).
• Reorganized content into rough outline of "final" chapters.

January

• Added configuration management, application dependencies, and source control sections.
• Updated about section.
• Fully responsive web design.

2013

December

• Changed CDN section to static content section.
• Transitioned diagrams from Paper app drawings to Balsamiq mockups exported to PNG files.
• Added Python database connectors to database section.

November

• Modified color scheme.
• Updated caching and introduction section.
• Added NoSQL data stores section.

October

• Created separate monitoring section.

August

• Added more resources for web servers and other categories.

June

• Updated styling.
• Switching around several sections.

January

• Fleshed out web server, OS, and server sections, particularly IaaS and PaaS topics.
• Added initial "hand drawn" diagram placeholders for better diagrams later.

2012

December

• Initial incomplete release on fullstackpython.com, created introduction, CDN, web frameworks, and database sections with stubs for other areas.