March 26, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]
The week that was 2023 WK12 Next week is my last week as a Django Fellow. I’m looking forward to a break now. I’m looking forward to turning off the notifications. As I keep telling folks, I’m not leaving Django — far from it! — and I’ll be available to be cc-ed or @mentioned as relevant, but for the last five years I’ve seen pretty much every comment, every action, every commit that’s gone on on django/django: I need to turn that down. Eyeballing the calendar, I think I’ll see how I feel af…
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News Django 4.2 release candidate 1 released Django 4.2 release candidate 1 is the final opportunity for you to try out the farrago of new features before Django 4.2 is released. djangoproject.com Want to host DjangoCon Europe 2024? Could your town - or your football stadium, circus tent, private island or city hall - host this wonderful community event? djangoproject.com Welcome to the PyPI Blog Announcin…
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Run multiple Django projects on a $6/month Digital Ocean cloud server using CapRover.
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How to optimize Django ORM queries to improve site performance.
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Somehwat surprising behavior that could trip you up and cause confusion while using custom template tags.
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How to search within a certain area with Postgres and Django.
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How to create cleaner URLs with slugs in Django.
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How to use Django Reversion and Wagtail together to audit changes.
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How to create unique, but obfuscated URLs in Django.
Read MoreMarch 23, 2023 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]
Django’s template engine allows you to augment template contexts with context processors. These are functions that take the current request and return a dictionary to be merged into the context: from example.models import HotDog from example.models import HotDogState def hot_dog_stats(request): return { "hot_dogs_eaten": HotDog.objects.filter( state …
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