April 8, 2019 » The Big Log » [Archived Version]
When I first started dabbling with Django and web-development, a good friend with a little more experience advised that I should keep logic away from my templates. “Templates should be dumb”. I didn’t really understand what that meant until I started suffering the consequences of having logic in my .html files. After 3 years with Django, I now try to keep business-logic away not only from templates, but also from views. In this post I’ll gradually go over from the least to the most recommended …
Read MoreApril 3, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
A discussion of Django versions including the recent 2.2 release, LTS's, and what's in store for Django 3.0 and onwards.
Read MoreMarch 27, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
A discussion of Django REST Framework, how it integrates with traditional Django, and its core features.
Read MoreMarch 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.
Read MoreMarch 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.
Read MoreMarch 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.
Read MoreMarch 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.
Read MoreMarch 13, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Carlton and William discuss how to learn Django whether you are a total beginner or experienced web developer.
Read MoreMarch 9, 2019 » Haki Benita » [Archived Version]
How we cut a heavy admin dashboard response time in half with advanced SQL and some Django hackery. I recently had the pleasure of optimizing an old dashboard. The solution we came up with required some advanced SQL that Django does not support out of the box. In this article I present the solution, how we got to it, and a word of caution.
Read MoreMarch 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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