Aug. 4, 2019 » Haki Benita » [Archived Version]
Have you ever stopped to think what staff user can do in your Django admin site? Did you know staff users with misconfigured permissions on the user model can make themselves superusers? Permissive permissions to staff users can cause disastrous human errors at best, and lead to major data leaks and at worst.
Read MoreJuly 31, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Jeff Triplett is a consultant at REVSYS, a Director of the Python Software Foundation, and President of the Django Events Foundation of North America. We talk about testing Django applications, TDD, and Python/Django community involvement.
Read MoreJuly 28, 2019 » The Big Log » [Archived Version]
import demoVideo from './cookiecutter-demo-minified-9.mp4' This post is a guide on how to scaffold (quick-start) new projects efficiently with Cookiecutter, a library that creates projects from project-templates. It outlines how I created my own Django cookiecutter, Scaffold Django X, but the same can be applied to Flask and pretty much any other Python project. Working on some Django articles, I found myself needing to start a new project more often than usual. It can get tedious: having to in…
Read MoreJuly 28, 2019 » The Big Log » [Archived Version]
This post is a guide on how to scaffold (quick-start) new projects efficiently with Cookiecutter, a library that creates projects from project-templates. It outlines how I created my own Django cookiecutter, Scaffold Django X, but the same can be applied to Flask and pretty much any other Python project. Working on some Django articles, I found myself needing to start a new project more often than usual. It can get tedious: having to initialize a project, filling boilerplate settings, adding te…
Read MoreJuly 25, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we updated Continuous Integration (CI) to run webpack and the Django collectstatic command. This is part of the ongoing effort to simplify deployment by moving work to CI.
Read MoreJuly 24, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Andrew Godwin is responsible for South/Migrations, Channels, and much of the new Async work in Django 3+.
Read MoreJuly 21, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
A special bonus episode to celebrate the release of William's Django for Professionals book release. We discuss what makes a Django site "production ready."
Read MoreJuly 17, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Simon Willison is a co-creator of Django and currently works at Eventbrite. We discuss the early days of Django, the founding of Lanyrd, and his ongoing work with Datasette to make it easier to publish and explore data online.
Read MoreJuly 13, 2019 » REVSYS Blog » [Archived Version]
Keeping Django Models Ordered
Read MoreJuly 4, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we finished connecting the Django Shiv app into Ansible. This required messing with file permissions and copying settings files to their proper place.
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