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PyCon 2015 Talk Schedule
PyCon will be returning to Montréal this April and the talk schedule was just announced. At least one Django talk is on the docket, but there’s always a lot to offer here for Django devs.
DjangoCon Europe 2015
DjangoCon Europe was announced, to be held in Cardiff, Wales the first week of June. Thanks to a popular boy band, the hotels are going to fill up quickly. If you’re interested in going, book now.
Django: Under the Hood Talks
The talks from Django: Under the Hood have been posted. Great expert-level content from some well-known developers.
High Performance Django
High Performance Django is the book we wish we had when we got started. It gives you a repeatable blueprint for building and deploying fast, scalable Django sites. Pick up a copy today →
Links of Interest
12 Days of Performance
The “elves” at RevSys put together 12 posts covering different performance enhancements you can apply to your Django sites and development process in general.
Multiple template engines update
The initial work for the multiple template engines was merged to master and will be in the upcoming Django 1.8 release.
Terrible Choices: MySQL
Ever wonder why Django developers complain about MySQL? Here’s a good list of gotchas encountered by person and some more commiseration in the comments.
Django and Flask: Why and When To Use Each
A talk by Eric Schles at the New York Python Meetup discussing the differences between Flask and Django and the sweet spot for each framework.
Building a Gopher client in Django
Remember the gopher protocol? It’s still alive and well and you can even build a client in Django.
Ultimate Django
A new Django course that includes a soup-to-nuts free tutorial as well as premium paid offerings.
Loading Django FileField and ImageFields from the file system
A quick tip on how to load up Django file fields from a remote or local source.
Django on Docker
Apparently this is a hot topic. We have five posts from December to show you how to do it:
- Hosting Python WSGI applications using Docker
- How to containerize your Django application with Docker and fig on OSX
- Deploying Django Applications in Docker
- A Docker primer – from zero to a running Django app
- A quick introduction to Docker containers for Django web developers
Deploying Django on Dokku
Is Docker too low-level for you? Dokku is a Heroku-like self-hosted PaaS that uses Docker containers under the hood.
Getting Started with Django and Heroku
Don’t want to setup your own server for Dokku? Let Heroku handle the hard stuff for you.
Deploying a Django Application to Cloud Foundry
OK, last PaaS deployment post, I promise :) This one covering Cloud Foundry, the open source solution used by Pivotal Web Services and IBM Bluemix.
10 Myths of Enterprise Python
Not directly Django related, but this post from PayPal’s engineering team will provide some good arguments for an IT department that’s hesitant to adopt Django/Python.
Custom Django Admin Actions
A new free GoDjango screencast covering how to build your own custom Django admin actions.
New & Updated Packages
- django-sixpack A Django interface to the sixpack A/B testing framework.
- django-test-without-migrations Adds the old
SOUTH_TEST_MIGRATIONSfunctionality to Django’s migration framework. - django-nocaptcha-recaptcha Integrate Google’s new No CAPTCHA into Django forms.
- django-hosts Route host names like URLs.
- django-production-ready A nifty management command to check for common Django mistakes.
- django-redisboard Redis monitoring and inspection tool in django admin.