Django community: RSS
This page, updated regularly, aggregates Community blog posts from the Django community.
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Talking about Django's history and future on Django Chat
I was on the Django Chat podcast to about Django’s history, the creation of the DSF, my recent return to the DSF board and my goals there, and the things I’m excited about for Django going forward. Here are some highlights from the interview. -
Podcasts I like listening to
Podcasts I like listening toI discovered listening to podcasts about one year ago. Previously, I never knew why anyone would want to listen to people talk when they could listen to music or nothing, but that has changed a bit. So, here’s a list of podcasts I’m currently listening to on a regular basis. Tech Won’t Save Us I have recently stumbled over Tech Won’t Save Us, a Podcast which is critical of the technological “progress” offered by Silicon Valley elites. It’s a great antidote for the generative AI hype. I still have some stupid hope that AGI will solve our problems because maybe people will trust a computer more than scientists that something has to be done about the combined crisis we’re facing as humans. Who knows. I do not want to be too negative about it though, there are positive news if you’re looking in the right places. I myself do not write about those bigger issues as much as I used to. I support those more important issues elsewhere. Generative AI is certainly not helping me in my work. I do not want a computer to generate code which I have to review and maintain when I … -
Weeknotes (2024 week 11)
Weeknotes (2024 week 11)Estimates Jacob wrote an excellent post on breaking down tasks. I did like the post a lot. Maybe I’ll write a longer reply later, but for now just this. There definitely are good reasons for the pushback against estimation, and it’s really not just that some people lack professionalism. Releases django-cabinet 0.14.1: Mini release containing a Turkish translation. It’s always nice if software is used. feincms3 4.6: Fixed a bug where the move form wouldn’t use a potentially overridden ModelAdmin.get_queryset method. form-designer 0.24: Updated the package for django-recaptcha 4.0. html-sanitizer 2.3.1: Fixed an edge case sanitization bug (luckily without security implications). django-content-editor 6.4.2: django-content-editor now again supports transitioning plugin fieldsets when opening and closing thanks to CSS grid’s ability to animate the maximum height of an element. Also, the initialization in 6.4 was badly broken. django-prose-editor 0.2: See the announcement blog post from Wednesday. -
Django News - NGI Zero Grant for django-allauth - Mar 15th 2024
News Python Insider: Python 3.13.0 alpha 5 is now available Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0a5, is the fifth of six planned alpha releases. python.org PyPI: Malware Reporting Evolved PyPI now has a new, improved way to report malware, using a "Report project as malware" button to project pages. pypi.org Updates to Django Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Pradhvan from Djangonaut Space! Last week we had 26 pull requests merged into Django by 17 different contributors - including 7 first time contributors! Congratulations to Can Huynh, Michail Chatzis, Kasun Herath, Leandro de Souza, cuinix, umair mehmood, and Moe for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board! Check out the awesome goodies stuffed into 5.1! Boosted performance of django.urls.resolvers._route_to_regex() function, benchmark results showcasing significant speed enhancements. django.contrib.auth decorators, @login_required, @permission_required and @user_passes_test now support wrapping asynchronous view functions. Apart from Django core updates, the community has some cool news to share too! Django is participating in Google Summer of Code this year. Applications open March 18 and close April 2, 2024. The first session of Djangonaut Space just wrapped up and the organizers thrilled with what all the Djangonauts have achieved! Wishing … -
Pybites Podcast #155
Episode 155 of Pybites podcast with the title “Django, Open Source & Pycon Conferences, Paolo Melchiorre’s Developer Odyssey” -
django-prose-editor – Prose-editing component for the Django admin
django-prose-editor – Prose-editing component for the Django adminDuring the last few days I have been working on a prose-editing component for the Django admin which will replace the basically dead django-ckeditor in all of my projects. It is based on ProseMirror, in my opinion the greatest toolkit for building prose editors for the web. Here’s a screenshot: django-prose-editor is in active development; it’s available on PyPI and is developed in the open here on GitHub. The version at the time of writing is 0.2, and it’s not yet used in production environments, only in staging/preview environments. That will soon change though. Researching alternatives to django-ckeditor I have spent a lot of time evaluating alternatives. All of them are great choices, and I don’t want to bash any of them. But, I didn’t feel good betting on any of the choices from the WYSIWYG editors grid on Django Packages. A few packages have potential licensing issues. CKEditor 5’s change to the GPL is what basically killed django-ckeditor. The upcoming TinyMCE 7 version will also change to the GPL according to the TinyMCE GitHub repository. Froala only has a free trial. The django-summernote app doesn’t have a dedicated maintainer, so I wouldn’t … -
So you've been reorg'd...
I’ve been through close to a dozen reorgs. This article contains the advice I wish I’d been given earlier in my career when I didn’t yet have that experience. Reorgs are disruptive, and nobody really tells you what to do in the wake of one. It’s easy to feel adrift, scared for your future, and uncertain about how to behave. Some of that fear is warranted: your job security probably goes down in the months following a reorg. But confusion and chaos aren’t necessarily signs that the reorg will go poorly, and there are things you can do to help give you and your team a better chance of emerging successfully. -
Estimating Software Projects: Breaking Down Tasks
Something missing from this series on estimation, until now, has been a discussion of how to “break down” a project into a well-defined task list. I’d not previously written about this because, to me, it’s largely intuitive. But it isn’t for everyone, so this post fills the gap, and explains in detail how I break down projects into a task list. -
Django News - Django security releases issued: 5.0.3, 4.2.11, and 3.2.25 - Mar 8th 2024
News Django security releases issued: 5.0.3, 4.2.11, and 3.2.25 A new security release addressing a potential regular expression denial-of-service. As always, the best security measure is to stay up-to-date with the latest version of Django. djangoproject.com Google Summer of Code 2024 Django is once again part of Google's Summer of Code. This long-running program has resulted in many key contributions to Django over the years. withgoogle.com Wagtail CMS Making wagtail.org more accessible Wagtail.org, with help from Outreachy, performed an accessibility audit and published the results. wagtail.org Sponsored Ad The Complete pytest Course: From beginner to expert From Brian Okken, author of the book, Python Testing with pytest, comes a brand-new video course on mastering pytest. pythontest.com Articles How to spend less time writing Django tests Autogenerating Django integration tests using Kolo and trace inversion. kolo.app Things I'd Like to See in a DjangoCon US 2024 Talk Drew Winstel is the Vice President of DEFNA, the group that organizes DjangoCon US every year, and the current program chair. In this piece he writes suggestions for what topics would be good in a talk. winstel.dev DjangoCon US 2024 Topics Inspiration List Kati is a DEFNA Director and presents a very thorough list … -
Do It Live - Building SaaS #185
In this episode, we deployed all our user setup and Stripe configuration change to the live site and tested the new flows end to end. Along the way, we found a bug in djstripe as well as some final bugs in the JourneyInbox configuration that prevented things from working. This is why you test! -
Do It Live - Building SaaS with Python and Django #185
In this episode, we deployed all our user setup and Stripe configuration change to the live site and tested the new flows end to end. Along the way, we found a bug in djstripe as well as some final bugs in the JourneyInbox configuration that prevented things from working. This is why you test! -
Final Pre-live Features - Building SaaS #184
In this episode, we completed the final features needed to get the site open for others to sign up. This included some dynamic limiting of the number of people allowed to sign up. We also had to add the template styling for the login page. -
Final Pre-live Features - Building SaaS with Python and Django #184
In this episode, we completed the final features needed to get the site open for others to sign up. This included some dynamic limiting of the number of people allowed to sign up. We also had to add the template styling for the login page. -
The Future of Python - Deb Nicholson
PyCon US 2024Python Software Foundation DjangoCon US 2023: Meet-ups: A Grand Vision for a Humble Endeavor PyCon US 2023 Keynote Speaker - Deb Nicholson: Community Service Awards & Python Software Foundation Update EU’s Cyber Resilience Act Passes with Wins for Open Source Announcing the Deputy Developer in Residence and the Supporting Developer in Residence How to become a CNAOur new comms person!Python Software Foundation Newsletter Sign-up ### Support the Show* [LearnDjango.com](http://learndjango.com)* [Button](https://btn.dev/)* [Django News newsletter](https://django-news.com) -
Django Blog Tutorial
This tutorial is a step-by-step guide to building a simple blog application using Django. If you are brand new to Django, I recommend first starting with the [Getting Started with … -
Where Does Validation Occur?
We can be more confident that our application will not break during runtime if we validate our data is of an expected size/shape/range. If we have a user account, for example, we don't want to save "larryjohnson" as an email address because when we try to email that address, the application will fail. We might want to restrict names to a reasonable character length, numbers to be only positive, or start dates to be earlier than end dates. Where Does Validation Occur? There are many places where data is validated in a frontend + DRF backend situation: The user validates what they write when they enter it, assuming they are not malicious The browser validates a field or form using HTML5's constraint validation for common use cases, assuming the correct usage of the type attribute on an input field or other validation-related attributes such as required and pattern The browser can also validate a field or form in custom situations using JavaScript The serializer validates each field on the serializer with their respective validate_(self, value) methods The serializer validates the serializer as a whole with the validate(self, attrs) method The database validates the data does not violate any database constraints … -
Django News - 28 PRs Merged into Django This Week! - Mar 1st 2024
News DjangoCon US 2024 CFP and Opportunity Grants are open! DjangoCon US 2024's Call for Proposals and Opportunity Grants programs are now open until April 24, 2024. djangocon.us PSF News: White House recommends use of memory-safe languages like Python The White House has recommended the use of memory-safe programming languages like Python. blogspot.com Updates to Django Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Pradhvan from Djangonaut Space! Last week we had 28 pull requests merged into Django by 16 different contributors - including 4 first time contributors! Congratulations to Erin Kelly, AlexCLeduc, d9pouces, and Emmanuel Sandjio for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board! Exciting news in Django 5.1: The admin UI has a new feature enabling users to set unusable passwords via a checkbox named "Allow login", toggled on by default. cached_db.SessionStore now logs failures when saving content exceeding the cache backend's limit, preventing request crashes from that subsequent session. Registering URL converters with same name is deprecated in favor of enforcing uniqueness on custom path converters. Not enough? There's some pretty cool stuff packed in 5.0 too: First-time contributor AlexCLeduc fixed a bug by adding a definitive chunk_size for the queryset iterator during database … -
Django REST Framework: Pros and Cons
This article looks at the pros and cons of using Django REST Framework for building RESTful APIS with Django. -
Getting Started with Django Tutorial
This free tutorial is designed for programmers new to the Django web framework, whether you are a beginner who wants to build web applications in Python for the first time … -
Django Project on NGINX Unit
Recently, I learned about the NGINX Unit and decided to try it on my DjangoTricks website. Unit is a web server developed by people from NGINX, with pluggable support for Python (WSGI and ASGI), Ruby, Node.js, PHP, and a few other languages. I wanted to see whether it's really easy to set it up, have it locally on my Mac and the remote Ubuntu server, and try out the ASGI features of Django, allowing real-time communication. Also, I wanted to see whether Django is faster with Unit than with NGINX and Gunicorn. This article is about my findings. My observations Unit service uses HTTP requests to read and update its configuration. The configuration is a single JSON file that you can upload to the Unit service via a command line from the same computer or modify its values by keys in the JSON structure. Normally, the docs suggest using the curl command to update the configuration. However, as I am using Ansible to deploy my Django websites, I wanted to create a script I could later copy to other projects. I used Google Gemini to convert bash commands from the documentation to Ansible directives and corrected its mistakes. The trickiest … -
Django News - open source funding - Feb 23rd 2024
Updates to Django Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Raffaella Suardini from Djangonaut Space! Last week we had 15 pull requests merged into Django by 14 different contributors - including 4 first time contributors! Congratulations to Shafiya Adzhani, Cosmic Process, Moein Bbp, and Aaron Linville for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board! News in Django 5.1: inside OPTIONS, the option "init_command" is now supported on SQLite to specify pragma options <sqlite-init-command> upon connection. django.contrib.gis.gdal.GeometryCollection and its subclasses now support measured geometries via the new attribute .OGRGeometry.is_measured and m properties, along with the .OGRGeometry.set_measured method. In Django 5.0 a bug was fixed where filtering on foreign keys wasn't working if the field wasn't in .ModelAdmin.list_filter. It's also solved a crash involving decorators (@sensitive_variables and @sensitive_post_parameters) when loading functions from .pyc files. Django Newsletter Wagtail CMS How to make your images greener with WebP Megan makes a case to switch to WebP and shares some resources that will work with any website. wagtail.org Wagtail Space talks we'd love to see in 2024 Creative proposal ideas for Wagtail Space and beyond. wagtail.org Sponsored Ad Django and Wagtail CMS Developer Training - New Dates Live! Build your knowledge … -
Finish Stripe Integration - Building SaaS #183
In this episode, we completed the Stripe integration. I added all the necessary test code, incorporated the webhook for handling account activation, and wrote the view that Stripe needed to redirect to on successful signup. -
Finish Stripe Integration - Building SaaS with Python and Django #183
In this episode, we completed the Stripe integration. I added all the necessary test code, incorporated the webhook for handling account activation, and wrote the view that Stripe needed to redirect to on successful signup. -
GeoDjango - Harout Boujakjian and Andrew Hornstra
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Weeknotes (2024 week 07)
Weeknotes (2024 week 07)This is a short weeknotes entry which mainly contains a large list of releases. The reason for the large list is that I haven’t published a weeknotes entry in weeks. Releases form-designer 0.23: Only small changes, mainly updated the package for current Django and Python versions. feincms3-cookiecontrol 1.4.6: A minor change: Swallow exceptions which happen during startup when clobbering the scripts data fails. As an aside: I find it funny that I have discovered the .f3cc class in some cookie banner blocklists. It feels good to be recognized even if this maybe isn’t the nicest way, but it works for me since I actually do not like cookie banners either. At least feincms3-cookiecontrol doesn’t inject anything without users’ consent, and doesn’t require a third party service to run. django-simple-redirects 2.2.0: Minor release which adds a search field to the admin changelist. django-simple-redirects is a repackaged version of django.contrib.redirects without the django.contrib.sites dependency. speckenv 6.2: django_cache_url now supports parsing redis configuration for a leader-replica redis installation with a read-write leader host and read-only replica hosts. I use the same configuration format as django-cache-url does. django-debug-toolbar 4.3: I haven’t done much here, just some reviewing here and there. I …
