FeaturedDjango’s RoadmapBased on the results of the community survey, a long-term release roadmap has been put in place. Extra effort was made to ease the upgrade burden on developers and third-party applications. Django Software Foundation announces Diversity StatementFollowing the Python belief that “explicit is better than implicit”, the DSF formalized a Diversity Statement that encourages and welcomes diversity in the Django community. Security advisory: simple_tag does not do auto-escaping
Django tries to take every effort to shield developers from exploits such as cross-site scripting (XSS), but
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Links of InterestDjangoCon US 2015 Early Bird DeadlineThe early-bird deadline for DjangoCon US in Austin, Texas has been extended and tickets are going fast. Grab yours before they’re gone. Beyond Request-ResponseCore developer Andrew Godwin recently made an ambitious proposal on how Django could be abstracted from the traditional request/response cycle, opening the door to true realtime capabilities. Sane Password Strength Validation for Django with zxcvbn
Bad passwords can be a big security threat. With Dropbox’s
Current Django BooksDjango has been around long enough (10 years now!) that there’s a lot of out-dated information out there. Before you buy a Django book, check this list to see if it is up-to-date. Upgrading Django ProjectsSome tips on when and how to approach upgrading your projects to the latest version of Django. Migrating to Django 1.8: a journey logbookWhile the previous post sticks to the high-level of Django upgrades, this post goes into the specific changes YunoJuno needed to make to get their site running on 1.8. Hypothesis for DjangoThe transcript (and video/slides) of a talk on how to use the new hypothesis testing library with Django. Also check out David’s post on using Hypothesis with Factory Boy . Tutorial: How To Set Up a Contact Form With DjangoA beginner’s tutorial on how to setup a contact form by Tracy Osborn, author of Hello Web App . Using Django OneToOneFields to Create UserProfiles
DjangoCMS chosen for Ubuntu dev blogUbuntu’s developer portal moved from WordPress to DjangoCMS. This post explains the reasoning for the move, the decision to use DjangoCMS, and the hurdles they had to overcome to meet their requirements. Social Auth with Django REST FrameworkOne approach to allowing users sign up and sign into your app using social auth (Facebook, Twitter, etc.) via a DRF API. Azure AD in Django with Python Social Auth
More social auth! This time, implementing Azure’s Active Directory service, again with
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