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.
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 two discussion panels and doing the This Week in Django show live. The whole thing was held at Google, which is just amazing, and they recorded all of the presentations and have made them available. I encourage you to . note, if you want higher quality videos watch them on YouTube and select “watch in high quality”. I participated in the following:
A technical design discussion panel featuring core developers: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, Simon Willison, James Bennett, Malcolm Tredinnick. This one was a ton of fun and I only wish we had more time. I had a bunch of questions that I did not get the opportunity to ask, and others that were covered in prior keynotes so I thought it was best not to harp on them any longer.
A panel discussion on Schema Evolution and three popular approaches to this problem for Django. Featured project leads Simon Willison (), Russ Keith-Magee (), Andrew Godwin (South). This panel had some spirited discussion on schema evolution and their different approaches. It seems that there are enough similarities that we will hopefully see some collaboration among the projects.
Michael Trier & Brian Rosner do a live presentation of the This Week in Django podcast. We were a bit nervous about this one since in our regular weekly podcast we have an opportunity to stop and start or do certain item over again. With the exception of a couple of minor mistakes it turned out great and was tons of fun. I was quite surprised by the number of questions that were asked. The only bummer about this one right now is that it cuts off the intro and the outro, but we’re trying to get Google to restore that.
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.
This Week in Django 35 has been posted. Don’t miss it. We catch up with Robert Lofthouse, Chairman of DjangoCon and EuroDjangoCon.
This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.
This week we have a very special guest, Justin Bronn, creator of GeoDjango the GIS branch of Django. We also discuss a few source commits, some cool projects from the community, and the Tip of the Week.
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Justin Bronn is a computer scientist and third-year law student at the University of Houston who enjoys studying legal topics related to intellectual property and spatial law. Prior to creating GeoDjango, Justin worked as a patent engineer for an intellectual property boutique in Houston and developed scientific data analysis applications for the Southwest Research Institute in San Antonio.
CartoAnalytics is Justin Bronn’s consulting company. CartoAnalytics provides innovative solutions to harness the power of your geospatial data.
#geodjango on freenode.(8136) – Excellent addition by Eric Forenzano and Russell Keith-Magee that allows you to add join models with extra attributes.
(8162) – It uses a token and prompts user for new password, plus also adds base36 encoding and decoding.
(8191) – Removes:
extensions to django_extensions. This will happen in one week.
Use decorator_from_middleware to create a decorator that can be used in your views, which wraps up a middleware class.
from django.utils.decorators import decorator_from_middleware
from django.middleware.middlewaremodule import MiddlewareClass
decoratorfunc = decorator_from_middleware(MiddlewareClass)
This code is not documented but added as part of cache reworking. See this thread for more information:
This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.
This week we discuss the NewForms-Admin merge into Trunk, DjangoCon, a few source commits, some cool projects from the community, and the Tip of the Week.
Please see the Show Notes below for all the pertinent information and links
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(7949) – According to Malcolm Tredinnick, it smells bad and has no friends.
(7971) ** django.newforms is now django.forms. Updated your code.
(7977)
(7985) – This one has bit us on the Django Logger.
This tip comes to us via Ben Jao Ming in his post Django auto-translation of field values.
If you need to translate content in a field then gettext is not going to help you out. Since you can create your own custom fields it’s easy to wrap a CharField with the translation behavior:
from django.db import models
from django.utils.translation import gettext_lazy as _
class AutoTranslateField(models.CharField):
__metaclass__ = models.SubfieldBase
def to_python(self, value):
return str(_(value))
Just add whatever translations you know of to the locale file and run compilemessages.
Robert Lofthouse just announced that the DjangoCon schedule is available. There are a ton of exciting speakers and topics being presented. It’s going to be a great time and I’m looking forward to seeing everyone there. I am curious if people will be extending the conference into the following week and if sprints are being planned. I’d like to make the most of it.
There’s been lots of discussion and over the past several days about a forthcoming Django based conference called DjangoCon. The official announcement was just released. I’ve always been fond of small intimate group settings and this one will certainly be that with only 200 attendees allowed to participate. I only hope that I get one of the coveted spots.
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.