Dec. 8, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we did an Exercism excercise that looked at Python list methods. Then we dug into Stripe and got to the bottom of some warnings reported by Firefox about potential Content Security Policy issues. Ultimately, we discovered some interesting additional Firefox cookie protection that were not found in Chrome.
Read MoreDec. 7, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Craig Kerstiens works at Crunchy Data, a provider of managed Postgres services. He previously worked at Heroku, Citus, and Azure Postgres among other companies. We talk about hosting providers today, the challenges of managed databases, Heroku’s early years, and more.
Read MoreDec. 6, 2022 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The organizers of DjangoCon US and DjangoCon Europe spend a tremendous amount of energy both hosting the conferences and putting all the talks online after. The complete playlists of talks from each conference are now available on YouTube: DjangoCon Europe 2022 DjangoCon US 2022
Read MoreDec. 6, 2022 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
Today we've issued the 4.1.4 bugfix release. The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used for this release is Carlton Gibson: E17DF5C82B4F9D00.
Read MoreDec. 1, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we started with a Python exercise on Exercism that explored Blackjack. We wrote functions that handled some of Blackjack’s core rules. After the Python exercise, we focused on a bug in the Django app that fixed an edge case with some the teacher checklist feature.
Read MoreDec. 1, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we started with a Python exercise on Exercism that explored Blackjack. We wrote functions that handled some of Blackjack’s core rules. After the Python exercise, we focused on a bug in the Django app that fixed an edge case with some the teacher checklist feature.
Read MoreNov. 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…
Read MoreNov. 25, 2022 » Luke Plant » [Archived Version]
Patterns for creating model instances in Django project test suites, and some anti-patterns
Read MoreNov. 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…
Read MoreNov. 24, 2022 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
The Django Software Foundation awarded me the 2022 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize.
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