FeaturedDjango Security ReleasesNew security releases in the 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7 branches were made. They address multiple vulnerabilities. Make sure to review the notes to see if you are affected. A thank you to the companies that support Django's infrastructureThe Django project requires a lot of infrastructure to run. Rackspace, Heroku, and (formerly) Divio are the ones that make it happen. Our book is done!
Links of InterestDjango Girls at Europython 2014A thoughtful writeup by Mikey Ariel on her experience at the Django Girls workshop at Europython. Python Templating Performance Showdown: Django vs JinjaIt's long been common knowledge that Django's templates are slow, but how slow are they? This post compares Django to Jinja in multiple different scenarios. Django News Podcast with Julien PhalipElena Williams recently released an interview she did with Julien Phalip about the Django admin and why it works the way it does. Django's Admin in ProductionSpeaking of the admin, this post looks at it's performance (or lack thereof) with production data and how it can be improved. Deploying a Django app on Amazon EC2Amazon EC2 is powerful, but all the options can be daunting to a newcomer. This post walks you through the process step-by-step including load-balancing and auto-scaling. Try Django VideosLaunch with Code released a huge set of videos (24 in all) walking a beginner through building their first Django site using Bootstrap to style the front-end and deploying to Heroku. Turbocharge your Python prompt and Django shell with IPython NotebookIPython Notebook is incredible. In this post you'll see how to integrate it into your workflow with the Django shell. Task Queueing in Django with ZeroMQCelery is the de-facto task queue library for Django, but it's not one-size-fits-all. Here's a different approach to the problem using ZeroMQ. Starting with django-allauth
Social auth is an expectation on most websites today, but is surprisingly tricky to get right. In the latest GoDjango screencast, they look at the
Internationalization with Django, Backbone, Underscore templates, and Sass (LTR and RTL languages)Internationalization (i18n) is one of Django's strong suits, but how does it work when your site is just an API talking to JavaScript on the client? This post will show you how it's done. The Simplest Way to Compress HTML in Django
One of Google Web Optimizer's recommendations is to compress your HTML before delivering it to the client. This post shows you how to do exactly that with the middleware in
ViewflowViewflow is a new Django library that promises to make complex workflows easier to write and understand from both a business and development perspective. The End of MVCA thought provoking talk from Django and PyPy core developer Alex Gaynor on the future of web development. New & Updated Packages
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