April 22, 2023 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
This is a 100% biased take. I’m on the DjangoCon US 2023 organizing team and am a member of DEFNA’s board. I also had a fantastic time at DjangoCon US 2022, so much so that I became an organizer and a member of DEFNA’s board. Simply put, I’m all in on Django. That definitely skews my perspective, but you’re here for an opinion. Send your people to DjangoCon! point over In all seriousness, I had this discussion with an executive on why we should send our other engineer to DjangoCon US this fa…
Read MoreApril 21, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News Announcement of 5.x Technical Board Election Registration A new Technical Board election is coming up. All individual DSF members can vote or you can register to vote, too. djangoproject.com Google Season of Docs: Creating Wagtail Developer Onboarding Tutorials After a positive experience with Outreachy, the Wagtail core team participates in Google Season of Docs to enhance onboarding tutorials for developers and improve engagement wi…
Read MoreApril 20, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I went through a few quick exercises on Exercism in the Python track. Then I returned to the features I’m developing that displays course resources connected to tasks in my homeschool app.
Read MoreApril 17, 2023 » The Big Log » [Archived Version]
<div class="notice"> <div class="notice-content"> <p>Obligatory <a href="https://thebiglog.com#tldr">TL;DR</a> with spoilers at the end of the post.</p> </div> </div> Background MusicButler is the first web-app I ever built. It notifies its users about new music by artists found in their libraries. It’s also how I learned a lot of what I know about programming and most of what I know about web-development. I believe it played a huge part in how I got to make a career shift to a software develop…
Read MoreApril 17, 2023 » The Big Log » [Archived Version]
Obligatory TL;DR with spoilers at the end of the post. Background MusicButler is the first web-app I ever built. It notifies its users about new music by artists found in their libraries. It’s also how I learned a lot of what I know about programming and most of what I know about web-development. I believe it played a huge part in how I got to make a career shift to a software developer in my 30s. Before the dawn of Dockerized apps, one way a layman like me would get an app to production wa…
Read MoreApril 16, 2023 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The release of Django 4.2 represents the final feature release of a major release series of Django. Per DEP-0010 this release triggers the election for the Technical board for the Django 5.x release cycle. All individual DSF members are automatically registered electors. If you are not a DSF member and would like to apply to vote you need to register here. The process of electing a new Technical Board will be: Registration of Electors is now open, and will close Friday April 21, 2023 AoE. Regi…
Read MoreApril 14, 2023 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]
This article serves as an introduction to Django REST Framework, focusing on serializers, views, and routers.
Read MoreApril 14, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News htmx 1.9.0 has been released! htmx 1.9.0 has been released, which includes new features such as support for view transitions and generalized inline event handling via the new hx-on attribute, as well as improvements and bug fixes. htmx.org PSF News: The EU's Proposed CRA Law May Have Unintended Consequences for the Python Ecosystem The PSF has expressed concerns about the proposed Cyber Resilience Act and Product Liability Act, statin…
Read MoreApril 13, 2023 » Django Beats » [Archived Version]
Mariusz Felisiak, a Django and Python contributor and a Django Fellow, explores how to use recent async improvements in Django to run multiple async tasks in an asynchronous view! Django on Fly.io is pretty sweet. Check out how you can be up and running on Fly.io in just minutes. Async support has really been improving and expanding in Django! Since Django 3.0 with the addition of ASGI support (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) there has been a steady march of improvements that bring Djan…
Read MoreApril 11, 2023 » /var/ - django » [Archived Version]
Using multiple file storages from the same FileField in Django
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