Principal Architect
It’s hard to get very far in the Django community without bumping into SmileyChris. He was a member of the core developer team for Django. In addition, he maintains several open source third-party Django applications.
Chris joined a small programming company after completing a computing systems degree and went on to become lead developer for a related web design firm. In 2006, Chris started his own business (Tactful Ltd) to focus on developing user-driven web applications in Django. Preferring hands-on coding to management, he joined the Lincoln Loop team to retain an active role in developing elegant solutions.
Chris has a loving wife and five children to rein in (the children, not the wife). Often found socializing with friends over a strategic board game, Chris also enjoys cycling, electric unicycling, creating music and frequent family outings throughout the scenic countryside of New Zealand.
Django 6.0 shipped with one of its most anticipated features: a built-in Tasks framework. For years, Django developers have reached for Celery, RQ, or other third-party solutions for background processing. Now, task definition and queuing can be handled natively.
Here’s …
A case study in upgrading django-countries to v8.
I’m the solo maintainer for
django-countries
, which provides a country field for Django models, along with utilities for forms, admin, and the REST Framework.
Over more than a decade, it’s become …