In many applications you need some way to debug / test the sending of emails without actually sending them out. For instance, you may be working on a political action based application and part of the functionality of the app is to automatically email your congressional representatives about a... read more

Like several others I've decided to switch my blog to a non-blog platform. I did this mainly because the whole blog platform web interface approach is not something that works well for me. Often when I think about writing something I want to focus on the writing and not... read more

I've been wanting to write this post for about four weeks now, and finally I have a chance to follow through on it. A little over a month ago I picked up Karen M. Tracey's new book, Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging by Packt Publishing. It's been surprising to... read more

Yes, I'm alive! The past six months have been grueling and a ton of hard work but definitely worth it. I've ignored pretty much every aspect of life except for coding. And I'm talking about heads down, all night, coding. It's what I love; it's who I am, but... read more

I just released GitPython version 0.1.6. This version has some backwards incompatible changes to be sure to read through the changes below before upgrading. GitPython is a python library that makes it easy to interact with Git repositories. The emphasis so far has been on introspection and less on... read more

This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django. This week we do a DjangoCon retrospective, feature a special live interview with Pownce developers Leah Culver and Mike Malone, discuss a few source commits and some cool projects from the community. Check it out… ... read more

Last weekend I had the unique privilege to attend and participate in DjangoCon, the first international Django based conference. It was a wonderful experience and I had the great opportunity to meet a lot of incredibly smart people. I was especially excited to be able to participate by Moderating... read more

Well it’s finally here. Django 1.0 is the moment a lot of us have been waiting for. It’s a very exciting moment for the Django team but even more so for the development community at large. It represents a huge milestone in the web framework space. Django, without a... read more

This Week in Django 36 has been posted. It’s a great episode with our special guest James Bennett. Hear James talk about the book, the blog, speaking, and a whole lot more. ... read more

This Week in Django 35 has been posted. Don’t miss it. We catch up with Robert Lofthouse, Chairman of DjangoCon and EuroDjangoCon. ... read more