Feb. 2, 2024

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News

PSF News: Kicking off 2024 strong, thanks to our community!

The PSF is starting the year feeling energized and supported, thanks to each of you who shared or donated to the year-end fundraiser and membership drive.

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</> htmx ~ htmx 1.x → htmx 2.x Migration Guide

The purpose of this guide is to provide instructions for migrations from htmx 1.x to htmx 2.x. We place a very high value on backwards compatibility, so in most cases this migrations should require very little, if any, work.

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Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is brought to you by Pradhvan Bisht and Mohammad Alsakhawy from Djangonaut Space!

The Django roadmap is here! Meeting modern auth standards, switching to Jinia2, built-in API framework, built-in rate limiting, sponsored Django features, making Django-Update official, and many more exciting ideas made it into the roadmap! And the discussion is still ongoing.

Last week we had 15 pull requests merged into Django by 11 different contributors - including 3 first time contributors! Congratulations to Marijke Luttekes, Adrienne Franke, and Aryan Gholizadeh Mojaveri for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

We're still seeing more updates to GeoDjango:

OGRGeometry.coord_dim is deprecated in favour of the new OGRGeometry.set_3d method.
Support for "M" dimensions has been added to GDAL "POINT" Geometries.
The centroid attribute is now available on all geometry types.

And Django admin's footer is now a real <footer>!

Django Newsletter

Wagtail CMS

Community Spotlight: Vince Salvino

Meet the founder of CodeRed and creator of Wagtail-CRX

wagtail.org

Articles

Duplicate form submissions and how to handle them in Django

A look at duplicate form submissions, understand the problem and fix it with a nice server-side solution.

overtag.dk

A simple approach to running Django Core locally

How to create a Django project running on a local copy of Django Core using a simple setup (e.g., no Docker, Poetry, and all that).

marijkeluttekes.dev

The simplest way to add Google sign-in to your Django app

Add Google sign in without using django-allauth or django-social-auth.

photondesigner.com

Safely rewriting complex code

A discussion of techniques for safely refactoring complex legacy code to make it more maintainable, including adding tests, small steps, and analyzing dependencies.

screamingatmyscreen.com

Inside .git

A text version of Julia Evans's recent comic on what's actually happening in the .git directory, featuring a ~15 word explanation of each part of it.

jvns.ca

Events

PyCon US Hatchery is Back in 2024!

We are pleased to announce the return of the Hatchery program in PyCon US 2024. This program offers pathways for PyCon US attendees to introduce new tracks, activities, summits, demos, etc., at PyCon US—activities that all share and fulfill the Python Software Foundation’s mission within the PyCon US schedule.

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Django London Meetup February

The next London meetup is at the Kraken Tech (Octopus Energy Group) London office this Monday! The talk is on "Battle-Tested Tips for Maximizing Learning from Tech Incidents."

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Tutorials

Django Email and Contact Form Tutorial

Learn how to quickly setup a Django contact form that sends email first locally and then in production via services like SendGrid, mailgun, and SES.

learndjango.com

Django Login, Logout, Signup, Password Change, and Password Reset

A big Django 5.0 update to an existing tutorial series, now combined into one mega-post covering all you need to know for a complete user authentication flow in Django.

learndjango.com

Videos

Don't Buy the "A.I." Hype

A talk questioning whether "A.I" will change everything.

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DjangoCon US 2023: Contributing to Django or how I learned to stop worrying and just try to fix an ORM Bug

You may think the Django ORM is big and scary, but at the end of the day, it's just Python. A talk by Ryan Cheley on his experiences fixing an ORM bug with help from the community.

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DjangoCon US 2023 - Keynote: Testing Modern Web Apps Like a Champion

How to thoroughly test a modern web app through all its layers: unit testing, component testing, API testing for integrations, end-to-end testing, performance and load testing, and continuous testing as part of DevOps pipelines.

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Podcasts

Django Girls Podcast: From Coder to Leader - Making the Engineering Management Switch with Lisa Quatmann

This episode features Lisa Quatmann, a Sr. Engineering Manager with an interesting journey. From representation to how DjangoGirls taught her skills that became relevant in her role, she shares resources and tips for growing in your career.

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