After the presentation yesterday evening, and Cal Anderson showing Pownce’s debug toolbar for a moment, it seemed like a great idea to create a pluggable out of it. It turned out I wasn’t the only one with this idea.

I ended up creating a few “panels” inside of an overlay toolbar, which showed things like SQL queries, profile output, and cache hits/misses. At the same time, Rob Hudson had created a pluggable framework for handling these “panels”. After somehow running into each other in the lounge at the hotel, we successfully managed to add my panels to the django-debug-toolbar project.

The project is pretty neat. It’s quite simple, and allows you to have access to some very nice debug/profiling information as long as you are listed in INTERNAL_IPS. It’s also extendable via panel system, which Rob created.

I’m not sure when an “official” release will be made, but there’s still a few things planned, both by myself, and by Rob, which will make this a killer app to use.

For now, here’s some screens…

(We haven’t implemented a profile module solution completely yet into the panel system)