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2023 DSF Board Election Results

Nov. 29, 2022 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

The 2023 Board is transitional to our new staggered 2 year term board membership model. Here are the results of this year's election as selected by ranked choice voting: Chaim Kirby* Jacob Kaplan-Moss Katie McLaughlin* Aaron Bassett Kátia Yoshime Nakamura* Peter Baumgartner Cagil Ulusahin Sonmez* * Elected to a two (2) year term Congratulations to our winners and a huge thank you to our departing board members Anna Makarudze, Mfon Eti-mfon, William Vincent, and Žan Anderle. You all set the…

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2022 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize awarded to Paolo Melchiorre

Nov. 25, 2022 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

The Django Software Foundation Board is pleased to announce that the 2022 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize has been awarded to Paolo Melchiorre. Paolo Melchiorre has been a member of the Python community since 2006, also of the Django community since 2012, and a DSF Member since 2020. Over the last 5 years, Paolo has presented nearly 40 Django talks at various DjangoCon, PyCon, and community conferences both online and in person. He also has been an active contributor to the djangoproject.co…

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2022 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize

Nov. 24, 2022 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

The Django Software Foundation awarded me the 2022 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize.

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Django Settings Patterns to Avoid

Nov. 24, 2022 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

This post is an adapted extract from my book Boost Your Django DX, available now. Here are some potential mistakes made with Django settings that you can avoid. Don’t Read Settings at Import Time Python doesn’t make a distinction between import time and run time. As such, it …

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Django Settings Patterns to Avoid

Nov. 24, 2022 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

This post is an adapted extract from my book Boost Your Django DX, available now. Here are some potential mistakes made with Django settings that you can avoid. Don’t Read Settings at Import Time Python doesn’t make a distinction between import time and run time. As such, it …

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Butter CMS - Jake Lumetta

Nov. 23, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

ButterCMS is a headless or API-first CMS built with Django. We discuss the initial inspiration, caching, performance, hosting, and running a SaaS business at scale.

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New profile picture 📸

Nov. 22, 2022 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

I chose as my new profile picture a shot of Bartek Pawlik taken in San Diego (USA) during the first day of Sprint at DjangoCon US 2022.

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Attiviamo Energie Positive - Podcast

Nov. 21, 2022 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

A cycle of free webinars, a Produzioni dal Basso project born with the support of Banca Etica and Etica SGR, with the contribution of many professionals and illustrious names of Italian social innovation.

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Your Code Doesn’t Have to be Perfect

Nov. 21, 2022 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

An example of smelly code that served customers for over 6 years without issues before breaking.

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Django-related Deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022

Nov. 21, 2022 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

Here are some Django-related deals for this year’s Black Friday (25th Nov) and Cyber Monday (28th Nov), including my own. For more deals on general Python-related products, see Trey Hunner’s post. My books My two books, Boost Your Django DX and Speed Up Your Django Tests, have 50 …

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