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Last call for DjangoCon US 2024 tickets!

Sept. 18, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

DjangoCon US starts next week in Durham, NC on September 22nd! If you aren't able to join in person, please consider purchasing an online ticket: https://ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-2024 The conference is full of a variety of talks with excellent keynote speakers! It's shaping up to be an event you'll want to experience live. If you'd like to learn more about DjangoCon US visit them at their website or reach out to them at hello@djangocon.us.

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Django: speed up tests slightly by disabling update_last_login

Sept. 17, 2024 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

Django’s test client provides two methods to log in a user: login() and force_login(). The latter one is faster because it bypasses the authentication backend, including password hashing, and just sets a session to have the user logged in. Typically, you’d want to use it in setUp() like …

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Unveiling Screenchain: Automate the source of truth for app workflows

Sept. 17, 2024 » Instawork Engineering » [Archived Version]

IntroductionIn pursuing excellence within the digital automation landscape, visualizing and comprehending screen workflows can be a transformative capability. Introducing Screenchain, a pioneering Django web application that exemplifies how innovation can enhance understanding and efficiency in automated processes. This blog post delves into what Screenchain is all about, how it works, its benefits, and the challenges our QA team overcame to bring this tool to life.What is Screenchain?Screencha…

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Nominate a Djangonaut for the 2024 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize

Sept. 16, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Hello Everyone 👋 It is that time of year again when we recognize someone from our community in memory of our friend Malcolm. Malcolm was an early core contributor to Django and had both a huge influence and impact on Django as we know it today. Besides being knowledgeable he was also especially friendly to new users and contributors. He exemplified what it means to be an amazing Open Source contributor. We still miss him to this day. The prize The Django Software Foundation Prizes page summa…

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django-content-editor now supports nested sections

Sept. 13, 2024 » Matthias Kestenholz: Posts about Django » [Archived Version]

django-content-editor now supports nested sections django-content-editor (and it’s ancestor FeinCMS) has been the Django admin extension for editing content consisting of reusable blocks since 2009. In the last years we have more and more often started automatically grouping related items, e.g. for rendering a sequence of images as a gallery. But, sometimes it’s nice to give editors more control. This has been possible by using blocks which open a subsection and blocks which close a…

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Django News - Python 3.13.0RC2 - Sep 13th 2024

Sept. 13, 2024 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Python 3.13.0RC2 and security updates for 3.8 through 3.12 Python 3.13.0RC2 and security updates for Python 3.12.6, 3.11.10, 3.10.15, 3.9.20, and 3.8.20 are now available! blogspot.com DjangoCon US 2024 last call! DjangoCon US starts September 22nd. It's the last call to buy an in-person or online ticket to attend this year! ti.to Python in Visual Studio Code – September 2024 Release The Python extensi…

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Weeknotes 9/13: The Unlucky One?

Sept. 13, 2024 » james.walters.click » [Archived Version]

Here we are, definitely one week after my last Weeknotes entry. 🙂️ Here's what's going on this week: New Headphone are Awesome 🎧️ Last time I mentioned my new Bose noise-cancelling headphones as a replacement for my Raycon earbuds to help create a more sound-tolerant workflow. They've been great! And I'm quite …

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Cloud Migration Beginning - Building SaaS #202

Sept. 13, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we started down the path of migrating School Desk off of Heroku and onto Digital Ocean. Most of the effort was on tool changes and beginning to make a Dockerfile for deploying the app to the new setup.

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Cloud Migration Beginning - Building SaaS #202

Sept. 13, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we started down the path of migrating School Desk off of Heroku and onto Digital Ocean. Most of the effort was on tool changes and beginning to make a Dockerfile for deploying the app to the new setup.

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Weeknotes (2024 week 37)

Sept. 11, 2024 » Matthias Kestenholz: Posts about Django » [Archived Version]

Weeknotes (2024 week 37) django-debug-toolbar alpha with async support! I have helped mentoring Aman Pandey who has worked all summer to add async support to django-debug-toolbar. Tim has released an alpha which contains all of the work up to a few days ago. Test it! Let’s find the breakages before the final release. Dropping Python 3.9 from my projects I have read Carlton’s post about the only green Python release and have started dropping Python 3.9 support from many of the packag…

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