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Weeknotes (2024 week 14)

April 6, 2024 » Matthias Kestenholz: Posts about Django » [Archived Version]

Weeknotes (2024 week 14)I’m having a bit of a slow week with the easter weekend and a wisdom tooth extraction. I’m recovering quite quickly it seems and I’m glad about it. This weeknotes entry is short and quick. I’m trying to get back into the habit of writing them after a mediocre start this year. 20th Anniversary Celebration of Young Greens Switzerland I have attended the celebration of Young Greens Switzerland. I have been a founding member and have been active for close to ten years. A lot…

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Sentry initialization in a Django project

April 6, 2024 » blog.bmispelon.rocks » [Archived Version]

Sentry initialization in a Django project Published on April 6th At $DAYJOB we use Sentry to monitor errors in production. It works really well but our particular setup caused an annoyance that was surprisingly tricky to fix. The annoyance Following Sentry's official documentation, we added the following code to our settings file: import sentry_sdk sentry_sdk.init(...) # credentials etc This works perfectly fine, and once that …

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Django News - Django 5.0.4 bugfix release - Apr 5th 2024

April 5, 2024 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Django bugfix release issued: 5.0.4 Check out the Django 5.0.4 release notes for a list of five bug fixes in this release. djangoproject.com Join DEFNA! Board Member Recruitment Django Events Foundation North America (DEFNA) is seeking another board member. This is a great chance to help grow the DjangoCon US community. defna.org PSF News: New Open Initiative for Cybersecurity Standards A new Open Init…

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Flash messages and content encodings - Building SaaS with Python and Django #188

April 4, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we added flash messages (after a rough start with some networking issues). Then I tracked down a thorny issue. We found that there is a non-breaking space with ’timesince’ that affects the encoding and what links Gmail adds to emails.

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Django bugfix release issued: 5.0.4

April 3, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Today we've issued the 5.0.4 bugfix release. The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used for this release is Natalia Bidart: 2EE82A8D9470983E. Django 3.2 has reached the end of extended support Note that with this release, Django 3.2 has reached the end of extended support. All Django 3.2 users are encouraged to upgrade to Django 4.2 or later to continue receiving fixes for security issues. See the downl…

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A blueprint for django tests

April 2, 2024 » Software Crafts » [Archived Version]

Honestly this what most of the first tests you write should look like

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Enforcing conventions in Django projects with introspection

April 1, 2024 » Luke Plant » [Archived Version]

Some code and tips to combine Python and Django introspection APIs to enforce naming conventions in your Django models.

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Storage Backends - what are they?

April 1, 2024 » Software Crafts » [Archived Version]

Changing how static and media files are handled in Django

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Django News - 🎉 Sarah "New Django Fellow!" Boyce 🎉 - Mar 29th 2024

March 29, 2024 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Welcome our new Django Fellow Sarah Boyce is the newest Django Fellow! Read more about her background as a software developer and active member of the Django community. djangoproject.com PyPI halted new users and projects while it fended off supply-chain attack PyPI temporarily halted new project creation and new user registration following an onslaught of package uploads that executed malicious code on any device that installed them.…

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