FeaturedDjango 1.7 Released
This is big news. Django 1.7 is a huge release, including database migrations and an app loading refactor (no more empty
DSF calls for applicants for a Django FellowThe Django Software Foundation is funding (via donations) somebody to work on Django full-time as a “Django Fellow”. It will be interesting to see how this role drives progress. Crowdfunding Multiple Template Engines for DjangoAymeric Augustin is on a role, having contributed major features to every Django release since 1.4. For 1.8, he wants to take on the template engine, making it a stand-alone library and easily swappable with other implementations such as Jinja2. High Performance Django Live Q&A
Links of InterestDjangoCon US 2014 VideosThe videos from this year’s conference in Portland are online. Great content this year. Django’s Turning 10!Adrian’s first commits to the Django repository were in July 2005. RevSys and the the folks in its birthplace, Lawrence, Kansas are going to throw a birthday party next July. Django Girls StoryA cool collection of stories from ladies working professionally with Django and how they got their start. Celery in ProductionAs with many tools, getting started on your laptop with Celery is easy, but there’s lots of ways to deploy it in production (some better than others). This post gives you an opinionated take on how it should be done. Using Postgres Composite Types in DjangoA pretty technical look at creating and using composite types (a column with multiple typed values) in Django. Long Live Adjacency ListsAnother technical topic by the same author, Matthew Schinckel, on using adjacency lists in Postgres to efficiently store and retrieve tree-like data in Django. Adding Django Form Instance Attributes
PyDanny blogs about a common use pattern in Django, adding additional attributes (
Getting Started with Django and PostgreSQL Full-Text SearchOn large tables, the default Django admin search can be very slow. This post shows you how to use PostgreSQL’s full-text search to provide better and faster results. The Class Based “View”
An in-depth look at the base
Django Rest Framework - An IntroductionA thorough introduction to using Django’s most popular REST framework, Django REST Framework (DRF). Associating Django users with their sessionsA common request Django can’t handle out of the box is logging out all sessions associated to a specific user. This post shows you how to do it by adding an extra table to the database to track the sessions. Customizing Django’s Default User ModelA step-by-step walk through of using a custom User model in your Django project. New & Updated Packages
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