Django Round-Up #30

Featured

Django 1.8 beta 1 and 1.7.5 Released

Django 1.8 is one step closer to release and 1.7 has received a few bug fixes.

DjangoCon Europe 2015 Update

DjangoCon EU is just over a month away and tickets are going fast. This looks to be a great event with lots of additional sessions and workshops planned.

Announcing DjangoVillage 2015

PyCon Sei (Italy) is happening this April in Florence and the Italian Django community will be hosting a gathering with Django-specific talks.

Django Sprint London

There will be an in-person Django sprint in London next weekend. If you're in the area, register for the free event and get a chance to hack and learn with some of the best and brightest from the Django community.

Links of Interest

Become a Django Girls Patreon!

Like what the Django Girls organization has been up to lately? Consider supporting them financially via Patreon .

How to Use Cache Headers to Speed Up Your Website with Django and CloudFlare

Full page caching is a great way to speed up your application and take load off your servers. This post shows you how to get up and running using CloudFlare as a cache and CDN.

How to Find the Performance Bottlenecks in Your Django Views?

Using a line profiler with the django-devserver to see exactly where your views are spending the most time.

Bypassing Django-Defender IP Based Restriction

A neat look into how a security researcher found a vulnerability in a recently released Django package.

Informing Users with django.contrib.messages

A new GoDjango screencast diving into Django's messages framework.

Asynchronous Python and Databases

This isn't Django specific, but the topic of async I/O and Django comes up so frequently I'm including it. You may find the conclusion Mike Bayer (of SQLAlchemy fame) makes surprising.

How to Install Django on IIS

A thorough write-up on how to deploy production Django sites to a Windows server with IIS.

Django Design Patterns and Best Practices Book

Arun Ravindran (of the ArunRocks screencasts) is writing a Django book. It is available for presale now and is expected to be available this month.

Configuring and Running Django and Celery in Docker Containers

Using Fig to setup a Django web service and multiple Celery workers in Docker.

Restricting Access to User Uploaded Files in Django

To restrict access to uploaded files, you need to jump through a few hoops. This post shows you how to set up the necessary Django views.

POSTing from Angular to Django

A quick hack to convert JSON POST data into what Django would get from a standard HTTP form via middleware.

SQL Database Best Practices with Django (or any ORM)

Lots of good tips on keeping your queries manageable when using an ORM like Django's.

I moved from Django to Rails - and nothing terrible happened

Curious how Django compares to Rails? Here's the experience of one developer who made the switch.

Dynamically Adding Forms To and Removing Forms From Django Formsets

Using jQuery to manage multiple forms and some of the gotchas one developer encountered.

How to use Django's Proxy Models

How and when to use proxy models in your Django app.

New & Updated Packages

• django-cachalot This johnny-cache replacement is nearing 1.0.
• django-otp One-time passwords with plugins for Yubikey and Twilio.
• django-sql-explorer Like Heroku's Dataclips or Stack Exchange's Data Explorer, but for Django.
• django-static-sitemaps Helpers to serve sitemaps and generate with Celery.
• django-watchman Simple status API endpoint for your project.
• crowdata Crowdsource data retreival from document collections.

Django Jobs

• Senior Python Developer at Azure Standard
• Software Engineer at Sling TV
• Full Stack Web Developer at Slate Magazine
• Python Engineer at Safari Books Online