Bienvenidos a Django Round-up #12!
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Jeremy Dunck, former Django Software Foundation secretary, was voted into the board seat vacated by Alex Gaynor (who left to become director of the
Python
Software Foundation). Andy McKay will be stepping in to fill Jeremy Dunck's shoes as DSF secretary.
We posted a few videos from Django Circus on the last round-up, but the actual talks were notably absent. The videos of the talks are now posted on their YouTube channel. Carve out a couple days and enjoy :)
Links of Interest
Daniel Greenfeld continues his line of informative Django blog posts with this one on what
ModelForms
do and how to use them.
Some tips and tricks from Dan Poirer at Caktus Group on how to create better reusable apps for Django. Topics include how to handle settings, templates, and dependencies.
This one isn't Django specific, but it certainly applies to any Django developers handling deployment. Python core developer, Hynek Schlawack, discusses deploying Python applications as a native OS package (dpkg on Debian/Ubuntu for example). Once the package is properly created, deployment across many servers is trivial and fool-proof.
Django co-BDFL, Adrian Holovaty, discusses the intentional anonymity of Django as framework and suggests adding tiny easter egg to your Django site for other Django developers to find.
Probably not too newsworthy if it weren't for Adrian's post a few days earlier. Proof of Instagram's Django roots was publicly available up until recently via an exposed admin login page. Instagram responded and locked down the page.
Not all forms are designed so that they fit neatly into Django forms objects. This post explores one option of handling more complex forms via overriding the
__init__
method. Be sure to read the comments for some other suggestions on how to handle this scenario.
Well, I have to admit, I thought I'd seen it all when it came to the myriad of ways to handle Django settings for different environments, but this is new to me. It involves building settings files from pre-existing templates and then managing them in a local DVCS.
Since Tastypie typically isn't outputting HTML responses, the indispensable Debug Toolbar doesn't work out-of-the-box with it. This post contains a quick hack to allow you to render HTML from Tastypie and view the toolbar.
An introduction to
django-authtools
which implements much of the boilerplate necessary to get up and running with your own custom User model.
Overriding a logging config to change a single file path for the given environment is painful and error prone. David Winterbottom describes the issue and his solution of using a custom File Handler to simplify the situation. A few other good options are presented in the comments as well.
New & Updated Packages
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django-html5-appcache
Manage HTML5 Appcache Manifest files for dynamic Django web applications.
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django-waitinglist
Waiting list app for running a private beta with cohorts support.
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django-redis
Full-featured Redis cache backend.
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django-cacheops
Automatic or manual queryset caching and automatic granular event-driven invalidation, backed by Redis.
Django Jobs
Thanks for reading. See you in a couple of weeks!
