Blog: Django Chat

Kenneth Love

Nov. 13, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Kenneth Love is a longtime Django developer, teacher (at Treehouse), and dev lead at O’Reilly. We discuss how to onboard new team members, burnout, remote work, and his advice for Django newcomers.

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Channels

Nov. 6, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Channels are the current way to add async support and websockets to Django. We discuss the history of the project, its current status, and how it relates to Django 3+.

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How Django Experts Think

Oct. 30, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

What does mastery in Django really feel like? We discuss our learning journeys, what’s different after years of experience, how to ask for help, and why coding is a zen experience.

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Middleware

Oct. 23, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Middleware makes Django, well, Django, but is poorly understood. In this episode we discuss how middleware works and why it's so important.

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Signals

Oct. 16, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Signals are a powerful but poorly understood and widely abused feature in Django. We explain how they work and introduce Carlton's "Am I allowed to use signals" test.

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Migrating from Python 2 to 3 at EdX - David Ormsbee & Nimisha Asthagiri

Oct. 9, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

EdX is an online education platform used by more than 20 million learners and institutions including MIT and Harvard. We discuss migration from Python 2 to 3, where to put business logic, and the limits of Django defaults on a website at massive scale.

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Search

Oct. 2, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Despite being a "batteries included" framework, Django provides no built-in support for search. And yet almost every website needs it! We discuss how to add search to any Django site via filters and Q objects. Then move on to more advanced options including full text search with PostgreSQL, Elastic, and more.

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Ruby on Rails & Django- David Heinemeier Hansson

Sept. 25, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

David is the creator of Ruby on Rails. We discuss "batteries-included" web frameworks, maintaining an open source community, versioning, upgrades, and falling in love with a programming language.

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Django 3.0 Preview

Sept. 18, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

We discuss the major features to expect in Django 3.0, which will be released in December, but the alpha release is available now for testing.

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Learning to Love Django Tests - Lacey Williams Henschel

Sept. 11, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Lacey is a former DjangoCon US conference chair, prolific speaker, teacher, and works as a consultant at RevSys.

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