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Locking Down Your Users' Secrets: Django Sessions 101

March 18, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

Django is a powerful and popular web framework that makes it easy to build robust and secure web applications. One of the key features of Django is its ability to manage user sessions, which are essential for many web applications. However, you may be wondering if Django sessions are secure. In this article, we’ll explore the security of Django sessions and see how they can be made even more secure.

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Django News - DjangoCon US 2023 Preview - Mar 17th 2023

March 17, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]

Sponsored Link Meet Wagtail, the #1 Django-powered CMS 100% open source. Powered by Python & Django. Built for editors and developers with excellent documentation. Trusted by Google, NASA and hundreds of thousands of organisations around the world. bit.ly Articles How virtual environments work A comprehensive look at how virtual environments work to help demystify them. snarky.ca Time Travel with dj…

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Django: Parameterized tests for all model admin classes

March 17, 2023 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

Here’s an application of “test smarter, not harder”, as per Luke Plant’s post. I came up with this recently whilst working on my client Silvr’s project, and I’m pretty proud of it. It should apply to any project using Django’s admin. When you declare a …

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10 Latest Mortgage Technology Trends For 2023

March 16, 2023 » Software Development Blog & IT Tech Insights | Django Stars » [Archived Version]

Today’s mortgage businesses should rely on technology heavily to do more with less. With the US Federal Reserve increasing interest rates and borrowing costs, banks stepping back from mortgage servicing, and 49% of homebuyers preferring self-service portals, according to ICE Mortgage Technology, mortgage market players must rapidly adopt technology to remain competitive. 90% of the […] The post 10 Latest Mortgage Technology Trends For 2023 appeared first on Software Development Blog &…

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Cater Waiter, Template Bugs, and Type Fixes - Building SaaS with Python and Django #155

March 16, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I did another Exercism problem in Python that dug into Python sets. Once the exercise was complete, we went back to the issue list. I debugged and fixed a template error, the spent time improving types with my Django app.

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Cater Waiter, Template Bugs, and Type Fixes - Building SaaS #155

March 16, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I did another Exercism problem in Python that dug into Python sets. Once the exercise was complete, we went back to the issue list. I debugged and fixed a template error, the spent time improving types with my Django app.

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Sync or Async? Unpacking the Mysteries of Django Signals

March 15, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

Django is a popular web framework for Python developers, known for its robustness, flexibility, and security. One of the features that make Django powerful is its signal system. Signals allow developers to trigger certain actions when specific events occur, such as when a model is saved or deleted. However, there is often confusion about whether Django signals are asynchronous or not. In this article, we will explore this question and discuss the tradeoffs associated with using Django signals.

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Python Web Conference 2023

March 14, 2023 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

The Python Web Conf is the most in-depth Python conference for web developers.

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Time Travel with django-simple-history

March 14, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

If you’re interested in Django development, you might have come across the django-simple-history package. It’s a great tool that can help you keep track of changes made to your models over time. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at django-simple-history and how it can benefit your projects. What is django-simple-history? django-simple-history is a third-party Django package that provides version control for your models. It allows you to keep track of changes made to yo…

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A 'No JS' Solution for Dynamic Search in Django

March 13, 2023 » Django Beats » [Archived Version]

In this post we take advantage of HTMX requests to do partial rendering for list views in Django. Django on Fly.io is pretty sweet! Check it out: you can be up and running on Fly.io in just minutes. Django is one of the most used server-side frameworks out there. It uses MTV (Model-Template-View) design pattern to build highly scalable and maintainable apps. Even though Django is a very versatile framework, one of the things that annoys me the most is the fact that - for a minimal Django setu…

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