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Django Round-Up #17

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Sep 13, 2013

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DjangoCon US 2013

Last week DjangoCon US was held in Chicago, bringing together some of the best and the brightest in the community. While you'll still have to wait for the videos, many of the presenters have posted their slides online. Lanyrd has aggregated most of them for you already!

Django Dash Registration

Registration for this year's Django Dash starts Saturday and is only open for one week. Get your team together and come up with an idea for the two-day hackathon September 28-29. They are still lining up sponsors, but there's already some great prizes already up for grabs.

Django Security Releases

1.4.7, 1.5.3 and 1.6 beta 3 have been released to address a security issue with the ssi template tag. A malicious template author could expose data by using the ssi tag to traverse the filesytem beyond what is specified in ALLOWED_INCLUDE_ROOTS .


Lincoln Loop's BotBot Tee

Our BotBot t-shirts were such a hit at PyCon this year, we decided to do another limited print run for people who missed out. Level-up your geek cred and grab one today!

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Links of Interest

New Django Round-up Podcasts

Two more Django Round-up podcasts are out. These feature Miguel Grinberg and Lynn Root . If you haven't already subscribed, make sure you add our podcast to your listening list!

Redesigning Django's Generic Class Based Views

Django's generic class based views were released to mixed reviews. Multiple core commiters have said they are too complicated and as a result, poorly documented. Tom Christie of Django REST Framework fame takes a stab at rebuilding them with simplicity in mind. The result is django-vanilla-views .

Django Talk

A new site with text-based interviews of Django developers. The interviewer, Hayri Cicek, already has 3 posted, including one with Lincoln Loop's very own, Kenneth Love .

Django to Switch to Jinja2 Templates?

Django BDFL, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, fed the rumor-mill during the DjangoCon US sprints, stating that the switch is, "a matter of how and when, not if."

Adding Persona Authentication to Your Django Project

Persona is an interesting new web-based sign-in system from the folks at Mozilla. There's a Django app for it ( django-browserid ) and this post shows you how to get it up and running on your site.

9 Most Popular Websites Built with Django

I'm dubious that these are the most popular Django websites, but they are certainly popular and all built using Django. If you ever encounter Django doubters, this list is a good list of success stories to keep in your back pocket.

Getting Computed Elements from a Table in a Django Queryset

If you're interested in Django ORM acrobatics, this is an interesting question with a thorough answer on StackOverflow covering advanced usage of aliased columns and aggregation/annotation.

Seamless static files with Django, Compressor, and S3

How to convert a locally hosted static file setup to using Amazon S3. The author jumps through some extra hoops to ensure that new deploys don't stomp on the files from older deploys.

Django Crispy Forms Screencast

A new GoDjango screencast, this one covering the popular django-crispy-forms package. Check it out if you'd like an alternative to the formatting options Django provides for forms out of the box.


New & Updated Packages

  • django-save-the-change Only save changed model fields to the database.
  • django-extensions Tons of great extensions and helpers to make Django easier to work with.
  • django-parler Simple Django model translations without nasty hacks.
  • django-richenum Enums on steroids... for Django.

Django Jobs

  • Web developer at Peace Corps
  • Django Architect at WhiteHat Security
  • Platform Developer at Spies & Assassins
  • Full-Stack Python Developer at Goodsie
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