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Django Round-Up #8

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Apr 19, 2013

Hidee-ho Django Round-Up readers! We're back with issue #8:

Featured

A whole load of Kickstarting

The post-mortem for Andrew Godwin's Kickstarter project to add schema migrations to Django core. He raised nearly £18k, via over 500 donations and plans to start his work immediately.

Two Scoops of Django is in Print

For those of you who prefer your tech books of the dead tree variety, Daniel Greenfeld and Audrey Roy's book is now available as a print edition from Amazon.

Links of Interest

Django Cheat Sheets

The guys over at RevSys updated their handy Django cheat sheets for 1.5 and have them available for download as PDFs.

11 Things I Wish I Knew About Django Development

A bunch of tips from a developer who spent the last two years working in Django at his startup. Be sure to check out the HackerNews discussion for more tips and some possible improvements.

Scheduling Periodic Tasks with Celery

A thorough write-up on how to get Celery up and running as a cron replacement inside your Django project by Barbara Shaurette (aka the girl with the Django pony tattoo).

A Helper Script for Runserver

A clever little bash script wrapper around Django's runserver that makes it easy to run multiple Django sites locally at the same time.

Migrate Your User Profile Data Django 1.5's Custom User Model

If you've upgraded an old project that was using a separate user profile model, you may want to consider saving some queries by merging it into a custom user model (available in Django 1.5). This post shows you how to shuffle the data around using South.

djangocore-box

This project uses Vagrant to build a virtual machine capable of running tests on Django core across all its supported databases and Python versions. This is a great asset for somebody looking to get started contributing code and testing fixes on Django itself.

A Journey through Time and PaaS

A history of deployment for Django and an introduction to django-deployer , a library to make it easy to deploy your app to the PaaS provider of your choosing.

Django for Web Prototyping

A simple Django project template that makes it easy to quickly build HTML prototypes while leveraging all of Django's template niceties.

New & Updated Packages

  • django-secure Helping you remember to do the stupid little things to improve your site's security.
  • django-adminplus Easily add admin views that are not tied to models.
  • django-ratelimit-backend Rate-limit login attempts at the authentication backend level
  • django-discover-runner Test discovery using unittest2 . Useful for only testing apps local to your project.
  • django-calendarium An attempt at a modern rewrite of the popular django-schedules app


Django Jobs

  • Python/Django Developer at Phobio
  • Python Backend Developer for Hardware-Software Team at RAB Lighting
  • Generalist Web Developer at The Onion
  • Lead Software Engineer with Python at NopSec
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