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Django News - Django 5.0 Feature Freeze Coming Soon - Sep 15th 2023

Sept. 15, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Status of 5.0 alpha release. Last call for new Django 5.0 features. If you have a specific PR you would like prioritized, please let them know by Monday, September 18, 2023. djangoproject.com Updates to Django We are nearly at the 5.0 feature freeze and still so much is happening! Last week we had 11 pull requests merged into Django by 8 different contributors - including 2 first time contributors! Congratulations to Oguzhan Ak…

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Django: Move a template tag library into builtins

Sept. 14, 2023 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

Django’s template engine has an underappreciated builtins option that selects libraries to preload in every template. Making a library a builtin avoids the need for an explicit {% load %} tag whenever you use its tags or filters. Putting key libraries in builtins can shorten your templates and make development a …

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Smooth Database Changes in Blue-Green Deployments

Sept. 14, 2023 » Django Beats » [Archived Version]

Mariusz Felisiak, a Django and Python contributor and a Django Fellow, explores how to make smooth blue-green deployments using advanced migration tools. Django on Fly.io is pretty sweet! Check it out: you can be up and running on Fly.io in just minutes. Blue-green deployment is a technique of releasing changes to a project by gradually transferring users to a new version. It provides an isolation between the current “blue” environment and the new “green” environment. B…

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Reducing your Python app's memory footprint

Sept. 14, 2023 » Honeybadger Developer Blog (Django Articles) » [Archived Version]

Lower your Python app's memory consumption with these expert tips to deliver a more seamless user experience.

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Django News - 2023 Django Developers Survey - Sep 8th 2023

Sept. 8, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News 2023 Django Developers Survey The DSF is partnering with JetBrains to run the 2023 Django Developers Survey. The survey is an essential metric of Django usage and helps guide future technical and community decisions and is open until October 1st, 2023, Anywhere on Earth (AoE). djangoproject.com Django security releases issued: 4.2.5, 4.1.11, and 3.2.21 These security releases address a potential denial of service vulnerability. We enc…

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Solving Verticals

Sept. 8, 2023 » james.walters.click » [Archived Version]

A little while back, I did some freelancing with a couple of friends for a real estate investment firm. One of my friends knows these guys. They have a great business, but the place where they were falling down was keeping investors in the loop on how things were developing …

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SendGrid Inbound - Building SaaS with Python and Django #170

Sept. 7, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we worked on the inbound hook to receive email responses from SendGrid using the service’s Inbound Parse feature. We worked through the configuration and addressed the security concerns with opening up a public webhook.

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SendGrid Inbound - Building SaaS #170

Sept. 7, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we worked on the inbound hook to receive email responses from SendGrid using the service’s Inbound Parse feature. We worked through the configuration and addressed the security concerns with opening up a public webhook.

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Last call for DjangoCon US Hotel Reservations

Sept. 6, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

DjangoCon US 2023 is just about here! While the conference isn’t until Oct 16-20, we’re sharing this now because discounted hotel rooms are filling up fast and will go away entirely on September 15th. If you can’t make it in person this year, we also have online tickets: https://ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-2023. All talks will be available online via the LoudSwarm platform, so you won’t miss any action. We have eleven exclusive talks for our online attendees, so you get more content. Online ticke…

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Back to School...

Sept. 6, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]

It's been a pretty tough year. As I've written about before, my son has had a long running illness, that has affected him for about 18 months now. Last academic year he wasn't able to return to school at all after Christmas, and has had various stays in hospital in the intervening period. Over the summer he's made good progress, and this morning, now, he's gone off in the car with his siblings, for the first day back at school. (Normally they'd walk, but we're not quite there.) I don't know …

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