Django Round-Up #11

Good day Djangonauts! Enjoy today’s tasty slice of Django Round-up (#11)…

Django 1.6 alpha 1 Released

It feels like 1.5 was just released, but 1.6 is already nearing completion. Major features include better (more secure) default settings and persistent database connections. If you weren’t already running a database connection pooler, 1.6 should provide a noticeable speed increase on many sites.

What an Operation

The latest installment in Andrew Godwin’s Django migrations project. This introduces the concept of an Operation and the declarative syntax which will be used to define schema migrations.

Django Circus Videos

You’ll still have to wait for the talks, but if you’re curious about what a Django conference held outside under circus tents might look like, check out a few videos from the event. Even a few very seasoned conference-goers said this was the best event they’ve ever attended .

Building a Hacker News Clone in Django

Part 1 of a video tutorial series by Arun Ravindran. It starts from the basics of using virtualenv up to building models and admins. There’s also text to follow along if you prefer.

Why I Left Heroku

Heroku is probably the PaaS for deploying Django these days. Django co-BDFL, Adrian Holovaty outlines some issues he had with Heroku and how, with a little upfront work, he’s developed a workflow on AWS that gives him many of the same benefits of Heroku. An interesting side-note, the other BDFL, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, recently joined Heroku as their Director of Platform Security – pretty sure they’re still friends though ;)

Flask vs. Django at Boston Python

A video from the Boston Python meetup highlighting some differences between Flask and Django and where Flask shines.

Getting Features into Django

Django has traditionally taken a pretty hard stance about adding in new functionality and features. Jacob Kaplan-Moss talks about what it takes to actually get a new feature into Django core.

API Development with Django REST Framework

Django REST Framework is fast becoming the go-to API library for Django. This post introduces it and some of the concepts that make it tick. It also introduces another package that provides automated documentation to your API similar to Django’s admindocs app.

Stop Writing Settings Files

Bruno Renié provides some explanation for his preference to use environment variables for settings that change between environments and some examples of where it shines.

Django Admin2

There have been a flurry of admin interface skins released lately. Django Admin2 has a slightly different goal. It aims to re-write the Python code underneath the admin to make it easier to modify and more extensible. This project would facilitate the effort to skin and modify the admin.

A Frontend Framework for the Django Admin Interface

Wondering to yourself, why do we need another admin? In this post, a django-grapelli developer outlines the problems with the existing Django admin and how it could be improved (leading to the same conclusion as the Django Admin2 folks).

Django Email Tricks

A two part blog post with some tips and tricks to sending email from inside your Django project. It includes tips on template organization and backgrounding the sending of email to keep your site speedy.

Why Sekizai

Django CMS core developer, Jonas Obrist, explains why and when you might want to use his app, django-sekizai. It provides a new and unique way of handling block level code in your templates.

Techu Search Server

An interesting REST based search server built on top of a the Sphinx search engine and a stack many Django developers are already familiar with, Nginx, MySQL, and Redis.

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