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Django bugfix release: 4.1.4

Dec. 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.

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Blackjack and Bugs - Building SaaS with Python and Django #151

Dec. 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.

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Blackjack and Bugs - Building SaaS #151

Dec. 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.

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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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Test factory functions in Django

Nov. 25, 2022 » Luke Plant » [Archived Version]

Patterns for creating model instances in Django project test suites, and some anti-patterns

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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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