Hidee-ho Django Round-Up readers! We're back with issue #8:
Featured
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.
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
The guys over at RevSys updated their handy Django cheat sheets for 1.5 and have them available for download as PDFs.
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.
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 clever little bash script wrapper around Django's runserver that makes it easy to run multiple Django sites locally at the same time.
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.
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 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.
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 Jobs
