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Django REST Framework

March 27, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

A discussion of Django REST Framework, how it integrates with traditional Django, and its core features.

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Less Obvious Things To Do With Django’s ORM

March 22, 2019 » Markus Holtermann » [Archived Version]

Django’s ORM is powerful and has been for ages. It only became even more powerful over the last years. In this post I want to explore some less-known features.

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Less Obvious Things To Do With Django’s ORM

March 22, 2019 » Markus Holtermann » [Archived Version]

Django’s ORM is powerful and has been for ages. It only became even more powerful over the last years. In this post I want to explore some less-known features.

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Third Party Packages

March 20, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Django 3rd Party Packages are the "secret sauce" in many Django projects. In this episode we discuss our personal top picks.

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Breaking Django

March 15, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Carlton broke Django for a few hours recently. In this mini episode we discuss how this is possible and explain how Django releases work.

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How to Learn Django

March 13, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Carlton and William discuss how to learn Django whether you are a total beginner or experienced web developer.

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What is Django?

March 7, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Django is a web framework but what does that actually mean? We discuss why web frameworks exist and what makes Django special.

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Feature Flags with Django Waffle - Building SaaS #15

March 7, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we added a feature flag system to College Conductor to control when users see new features. We used the excellent Django Waffle project.

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Contributing to classiness (in Django)

March 4, 2019 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]

A couple weeks ago I ran a poll on Twitter asking people whether they’d ever used, or considered using, the contribute_to_class() method to write something that attaches to or hooks into a Django ORM model class, and if so what their thoughts were. There was also a “don’t know what that is” option, which won by a large margin, and I promised I’d provide an explanation. Unfortunately, that was around the time I suffered a kitchen … Read full entry

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Contributing to classiness (in Django)

March 4, 2019 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]

A couple weeks ago I ran a poll on Twitter asking people whether they’d ever used, or considered using, the contribute_to_class() method to write something that attaches to or hooks into a Django ORM model class, and if so what their thoughts were. There was also a “don’t know what that is” option, which won by a large margin, and I promised I’d provide an explanation. Unfortunately, that was around the time I suffered a kitchen … Read full entry

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