March 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.
Read MoreMarch 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.
Read MoreMarch 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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