FeaturedBugfix release issued: 1.8.5A handlful of bugs in the 1.8 release series have been resolved in the latest release. Django 1.9 beta 1 released1.9 brings a lot of new features including password validators, parallel tests, a Postgres JSON field, a new admin style and much more. DSF announces winner of the 2015 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial PrizeThis years winner should come as no surprise to those of you who have been involved in the Django community over the last few years. High Performance Django
Links of InterestTrying JSON in Django and PostgreSQL (and compare with MongoDB)A thorough review of the new Postgres JSON functionality in the ORM and how it compares to using MongoDB. Answers to Django Security QuestionsDjango gives you a ton of security benefits out of the box, but do you know what they are and why they’re important? This post will give you the answers. Make a Django app insecure? It’s not easy!Despite all the protection Django provides, it’s still possible to circumvent it with some bad practices. A hidden gem in Django 1.7: ManifestStaticFilesStorage
Versioning static files can be a tricky problem, but Django has the functionality baked in in the form of
Profiling Python in ProductionDetails and code on how to CPU profile production services with negligible overhead. The data is used to provide flamegraphs to identify hot-spots. Bulk Inserts Performance with Django and PostgreSQL
A comparison of different methods to insert lots of data into Postgres, from the ORM down to Postgres’
Deploying a Django App with No DowntimeOne approach to deploying a Django service without taking the server down and dropping requests in the process. Functional Context Values in DjangoA nifty approach to adding global context processors without incurring expensive database queries on views where they are not used. Rewriting a Flask app in DjangoOne person’s experience transitioning from Flask to Django. How to Upload a Photo To Django Using iOS and Django Rest FrameworkSample Python and Objective-C code to get iOS devices talking to DRF for file uploads. Django, SQLite, GLOB, CAST and sortingJumping through some hoops to get alphanumeric fields properly sorted coming out of a SQLite database. Scheduled jobs with Celery, Django and RedisCelery is commonly used to run jobs triggered by your web application. But did you know it also has a scheduler built, similar to cron? This post will show you how to use it. LinkedIn Social Authentication in Django
A complete example of setting up
Setting a testing/deployment pipeline for your Django app using Codeship and AWS CodeDeployBuilding an automated commit -> test -> deploy pipeline for Django applications. Using Gabbi and Hypothesis to Test Django APIsA different approach to testing leveraging a couple of newer Python testing libraries. A Short Intro to Translating your Site with Django 1.8Django has internationalization (i18n) support baked in. Here’s how to use it. New & Updated Packages
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