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Django Settings Patterns to Avoid

Nov. 24, 2022 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

This post is an adapted extract from my book Boost Your Django DX, available now. Here are some potential mistakes made with Django settings that you can avoid. Don’t Read Settings at Import Time Python doesn’t make a distinction between import time and run time. As such, it …

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Django Settings Patterns to Avoid

Nov. 24, 2022 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

This post is an adapted extract from my book Boost Your Django DX, available now. Here are some potential mistakes made with Django settings that you can avoid. Don’t Read Settings at Import Time Python doesn’t make a distinction between import time and run time. As such, it …

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Butter CMS - Jake Lumetta

Nov. 23, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

ButterCMS is a headless or API-first CMS built with Django. We discuss the initial inspiration, caching, performance, hosting, and running a SaaS business at scale.

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New profile picture 📸

Nov. 22, 2022 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

I chose as my new profile picture a shot of Bartek Pawlik taken in San Diego (USA) during the first day of Sprint at DjangoCon US 2022.

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Django-related Deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022

Nov. 21, 2022 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

Here are some Django-related deals for this year’s Black Friday (25th Nov) and Cyber Monday (28th Nov), including my own. For more deals on general Python-related products, see Trey Hunner’s post. My books My two books, Boost Your Django DX and Speed Up Your Django Tests, have 50 …

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Django-related Deals for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2022

Nov. 21, 2022 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

Here are some Django-related deals for this year’s Black Friday (25th Nov) and Cyber Monday (28th Nov), including my own. For more deals on general Python-related products, see Trey Hunner’s post. My books My two books, Boost Your Django DX and Speed Up Your Django Tests, have 50 …

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Development Cached Templates - Building SaaS with Python and Django #150

Nov. 17, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I ran through a Python exercise on Exercism that focused on strings. Then we moved onto the homeschool app and fixed an issue with templates that were cached during development because of changes in Django 4.1.

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Development Cached Templates - Building SaaS #150

Nov. 17, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I ran through a Python exercise on Exercism that focused on strings. Then we moved onto the homeschool app and fixed an issue with templates that were cached during development because of changes in Django 4.1.

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2023 DSF Board Candidates

Nov. 16, 2022 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Thank you to the thirty individuals who have chosen to stand for election. Our deepest gratitude goes to our departing board members for your contributions and commitment to the Django community. Anna Makarudze Mfon Eti-mfon William Vincent Žan Anderle DSF members please take the time to review the candidates so that you can make an informed vote. Clicking on a candidates name will expand their candidate statement. Daniel Andrlik King of Prussia, PA, USASecretaryI’m passionate about Django…

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Fixing _SixMetaPathImporter.find_spec() not found warnings in Python 3.10

Nov. 16, 2022 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

I am helping a client upgrade their Django application to Python 3.10 and we encountered this mysterious warning when running the app on the new Python version: <frozen importlib._bootstrap>:914: ImportWarning: _SixMetaPathImporter.find_spec() not found; falling back to find_module() To make matters worse, this warning doesn’t only show up once, but more than 200 times when we run python manage.py runserver. It completely floods the console output 😱 A fair amount of googling revealed that the w…

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