This Week in Django 33 has been posted.
This week we discuss the NEW This Week in Django site, a bunch of source commits, and some cool projects from the community.
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TWiD Community Evangelist
Posted on July 23, 2008
As we mentioned on This Week in Django 30 Kevin Fricovsky will be joining the podcast as a Community Evangelist. If you’re wondering what that’s all about and how Kevin fits into the show, check out his detailed post on the subject. Both Brian Rosner and I are extremely pleased to have Kevin’s help and support.
This Week in Django 29 - 2008-07-13
Posted on July 15, 2008
This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.
This week we have a special guest, Kevin Fricovsky, that joins us as we talk about DjangoCon, EuroPython, a few source commits, some cool projects from the community, and the Tip of the Week.
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Big News (3:38)
- EuroPython 2008 has come and gone.
- DjangoCon – Jacob Kaplan-Moss let the cat out of the bag and let us know that a DjangoCon is being planned for the 1.0 release timeframe for September 6th and 7th. More details to follow. We’ll keep you posted.
- Official Announcement
- A Quote from Robert Lofthouse via Simon Willison’s blog.
“DjangoCon 2008. Venue: Googleplex, San Francisco Bay Area. Dates: 6th and 7th Sept. Official post will be on djangoproject.com soon.”
Tracking Trunk (14:27)
- Added a
ping_googlemanagement command to the sitemaps contrib(7813)– Makes it easy to ping Google once your Sitemap is up and running.
- Fixed #2070: refactored Django’s file upload capabilities.
(7814)- Django now handles large files nicely in uploads with the new streaming file upload handling.
- New uploading documentation
- There have been a ton of fixes since this landed.
- Multi-part MIME parsing fix
(7905) - Support pluggable backends for FileField
(5361)
- Moved make-messages, compile-messages and daily-cleanup into
django-admin.py(7844)– This makes them easily accessible as management commands and reduces the number of binaries and man pages.- django-command-extensions – This is a repository for collecting global custom management extensions.
- Jannis Leidel -
Branching and Merging (34:18)
- Added autodiscover functionality to django.contrib.admin.
(7872)- This makes the admin aware of per-app admin.py modules and does an import on them when explicitly called.
- Added some documentation about media defintions in ModelAdmin classes.
(7873)- Subtle backward incompatible change
- Learning NewForms-Admin
Community Catchup (47:27)
- How to build Django web apps – Looks to be a great workshop with one of Django’s superstars, Jeff Croft.
- django-treemenus – Very cool application by Julien Phalip that makes it easy to add tree menus to your Django app and manage the structure dynamically from the customized admin interface. View the 0.4 release post for more information.
- First Two Django Screencasts – Eric Florenzano never sleeps. His first foray into screencasts are quite impressive. He covers: 1. Setting up a Django Environment 2. Using Django-Pagination
- Interview with Jacob Kaplan-Moss – Great interview by Brazilian Marinho Brandão.
- Yahoo’s Build your Own Search Service in Django – Will Larson offers two informative articles on integrating BOSS with Django.
Tip of the Week (1:10:41)
Mike Axiak offers the following tip for getting started with contributing to Django source code.
1. Find a closed ticket that interests you. 2. Take a look at a closed ticket, but not the patch. 3. Check out the revision prior to the one that closed the ticket. 4. Write a patch for Django with your own implementation. 5. Compare your patch with the committed patch and try to learn from the differences.
Once you’re comfortable do it for real.
Thank You! (1:23:24)
- Django-Chunks – Simple keyed content that you can insert into your templates.
- Cloud27 – A social network built on Pinax.
- This Week in Django 24 – Interview with Pinax / Cloud27 founder James Tauber.
- Django-Hotclub Channel
- Kevin Fricovsky
- How I Work Daily
- Django-NYC – Discussion group for Django-NYC attendees. If you’re in the NY area, be sure to check it out.
- Brian Rosner
Callcast with Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Posted on July 07, 2008
Kevin Fricovsky at the HIWD (How I Work Daily) blog just posted a very interesting callcast with Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of Django’s core developer. In the callcast, Jacob discusses a planned DjangoCon 2008 conference to be held in the San Francisco Bay area. The idea of a conference centered around Django sounds very exciting. I highly recommend that you give it a listen.
