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Django 1.7 release candidate 2
The 1.7 release is nigh! Lots of awesome improvements coming down the pike.
DjangoCon US Schedule Posted
The preliminary talk schedule for DjangoCon US was posted recently. It will be back in Portland this year, September 2-4.
Django Under the Hood
A new conference was announced focusing on more advanced aspects of Django. It will be held November 14-15 in Amsterdam.
Links of Interest
Django Rest Framework 3 Kickstarter
Tom Christie has blown the doors off the goals for his Kickstarter project to fund development of DRF 3. If you haven’t contributed yet, there’s still a few days left.
The End of an Era (South 1.0)
Andrew Godwin released the last version of South to ease upgrading to the forthcoming migration framework in 1.7.
Django News Podcast with Jannis Leidel
Elena Williams is back with her Django News podcast. This is June’s edition, featuring Jannis (aka jezdez) talking about static files.
DjangoGirls Tutorial
A thorough intro to Django from the DjangoGirls team.
Django Migrations - A Primer
A nice introduction to the new migrations framework with code examples and video.
Tips for Upgrading Django
More preparation for the 1.7 release. Make sure your upgrade goes smoothly with these tips from Mark Lavin at Caktus Group.
Deferred Tasks and Scheduled Jobs with Celery 3.1, Django 1.7 and Redis
Buddy Lindsey’s latest GoDjango screencast covers background jobs and the differences you need to know in the recent releases of Django and Celery.
Testing Django Websites
Some good tips on basic smoke testing for Django views. While not as focused as unit tests, these sorts of tests cover a lot of code and can catch many potential errors.
Build an IVR system with Twilio and Django
A tutorial from Twilio’s blog that walks you through building an Interactive Voice Response system (think, “to do X press 1”) in Django.
Performant Django
A talk with lots of good performance tips for Django developers, covering both the front-end and back-end.
Making Ember Data and Django REST Framework Play Nice
An introduction to rest_framework_ember, a few DRF helper classes to make it output data in the format Ember expects.
Nginx, Django, and X-Accel-Redirects
Efficient methods to serve private static files (only visible after login) in Django with Nginx.
From LIKE to Full-Text Search (part II)
The final in a two-part series on the oft-overlooked (and awesome) full-text search capabilities in PostgreSQL.
New & Updated Packages
- django-userlog Logs users’ recent browsing history
- davvy Build WebDAV services in Django
- ABBY An A/B test documentation tool
- django-s3direct Widget to upload directly to S3 from admin or forms