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This Week in Django 28 - 2008-06-30

This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.

This week we talk about quite a few source commits (kicking-ass), some cool projects from the community, the Tip of the Week, and a question from the IRC.

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Show Notes

Big News

Malcolm Tredinnick is back!!!

Tracking Trunk (1:08)

• QuerySet Refactor Cleanup – Several tickets related to QuerySet Refactor merge and unrelated but just database stuff in general:
  • Corrected DateQuerySet to handle nullable fields (7739) – Previously if the date field was nullable no results were returned.
  • Corrected values and values_list across nullable joins (7740) – Previously, if we were querying across a nullable join and then a non-nullable one, the second join would not be a LEFT OUTER join, which would exclude certain valid results from the result set.
  • (7741), (7773), and (7760) through (7766) – Lots of miscellaneous QuerySet changes
  • Delete multi-table objects correctly. (7784) – When model inheritance is used, the parent objects should be deleted as part of the delete() call on the child.
  • Changed the way extra() bits are handled when QuerySets? are merged. (7791)

• django.contrib.auth no longer requires Sites framework (7748)

• Allow cache tag timeout value to be a variable (7754)

• Removed an unused OrderingField (7794)

• Normalize file paths for get_FIELD_filename (7795)

• exact lookups in MySQL are now case-sensitive (7798)

• Enforce the required attribute on BooleanField (7799)

• Allow empty content in flatpages. (7807)

• Removed default ordering on the User class (7806)

Community Catchup (19:28)

• Django newforms-admin upgrade – Luke Plant discusses his experiences with upgrading to the Django NewForms-Admin branch. Great post if you’re considering making the jump.

• Kss in Django – KSS is a javascript framework that aims to allow Ajax development without javascript. It uses stylesheets with CSS-compliant syntax to setup behaviours in the client and a set of well-defined commands that are marshalled back from the server to manipulate the DOM.

• Oh Django Song – Creative Mac OS X snippet.

• Python and Django Setup for Mac OS X Leopard – Exhaustive walkthrough by David A Krauth on setting up Django on Mac OS X.

• Edit Inline Support for Generic Relations – Patrick Altman delivers an article discussing how he implemented edit-inline support for generic relations.

• Django code_swarm – A kick ass-swarm visualizer by Brian Rosner for the Django source code from initial release to today.
  • code_swarm – An experiment in organic software visualization.
  • SQLAlchemy Code Swarm

• The basics of creating a tumblelog with Django – Interesting post by Ryan Berg. Similar projects are Jelly-Roll and SyncR and Django Lifestream.
  • jellyroll
  • django-syncr
  • django-lifestream

• An Interview with Adrian Holovaty – Creator of Django – Another excellent interview by Shabda Raaj.

Tip of the Week (43:49)

Ever need to reorder the fields on your Model Form?

• CookBookNewFormsFieldOrdering – Post by Simon Willison.
• Django Wiki CookBook

class TranslationForm(BookForm):
    translator = forms.CharField(max_length=40)

    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
        super(TranslationForm, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
        self.fields.keyOrder = ['title', 'author', 'translator', 'publisher', 'copyright']

IRC Ad Nauseam (47:10)

Django IRC FAQ

Backwards Incompatible Changes Information

Charlie O’Keefe say, “I’ve gotten into designing restful URL schemes, basically organizing a web app around resources. Learning Django I was frustrated to find that nothing seems to be done this way. Is there any tool that can help with that?”

• django-rest-interface – Google Summer of Code project by Andreas Stuhlmüller.

Thank You! (50:58)

• MacVim
  • Using TextMate with Django – Great TextMate bundle by Paul Bissex.
  • E Text Editor – Cool TextMate clone for Windows. Utilizes TextMate bundles.
  • Using Vim with Django

• BosnoWsgi – Brian Rosner’s Tool for managing WSGI processes
  • Monit – Great Unix System management
  • CherryPy – a pythonic, object-oriented HTTP framework.
  • Hosting a Django Site with Pure Python – Great post by Eric Florenzano.
  • Serving Django via CherryPy

• Bill Gates Retires
  • Bill Gates Unhinged – amazing email from Bill Gates about his frustrations with using Microsoft software.
  • TWiT Podcast
  • Story by Todd Bishop

• Brian Rosner
  • Brian Rosner Blog
  • Brian on Twitter
  • TWiD Live

• Michael on Twitter

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