July 25, 2025 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
We’re excited to share that DjangoCon Africa is returning this year — and this time we’re heading to Arusha, Tanzania from August 11–15, 2025! 🎉 Arusha city view with Mount Meru in the background, credits Halidtz - CC BY-SA 4.0 This second edition builds on the incredible success of the inaugural DjangoCon Africa held in Zanzibar in 2023. That event welcomed over 200 attendees from 22+ countries, with more than half of the participants being women — a powerful statement about the growing diver…
Read MoreJuly 24, 2025 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]
This tutorial looks at how to deploy a Django application to Sevalla.
Read MoreJuly 21, 2025 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]
I’ve found it useful, on occasion, to iterate through all registered URL patterns in a Django project. Sometimes this has been for checking URL layouts or auditing which views are registered. In this post, we’ll look at a pattern for doing that, along with an example use case …
Read MoreJuly 18, 2025 » Django News » [Archived Version]
News 🎂 Happy 20th birthday Django! On July 13th 2005, Jacob Kaplan-Moss made the first commit to the public repository that would become Django. Twenty years and 400+ releases later, here we are – Happy 20th birthday Django! 🎉 djangoproject.com 📻 W2D Django 20th Celebration Continues 🎂 Nearing one week in, two operators of the W2D special event station honoring Django's 20th birthday have made over 400 contacts with 22 geopolitical entitie…
Read MoreJuly 15, 2025 » timonweb.com » [Archived Version]
I created Django-Tailwind back in 2019, at a time when most Djangonauts hadn’t even heard of Tailwind CSS. Since then, the package has grown in popularity, and although I’ve taken some longer breaks from maintaining it, I’ve always returned with renewed energy. That’s happened again recently—after the grueling task of … Read now
Read MoreJuly 14, 2025 » Someone Who Codes » [Archived Version]
I’ve jumped on and off many tech bandwagons in 35 years. Django stuck. 17 years later, it still powers the core product I help build. Happy 20th, Django.
Read MoreJuly 14, 2025 » Django on the Med 🏖️ » [Archived Version]
An all important update on how to get to Palafrugell for Django on the Med 🏖️ in October! I added the first draft for a Getting to Palafrugell section to the website. The summary is you’re either going to get the train to Girona, or else fly to Girona or Barcelona. From there it’s a bus (or car) for the final hop to Palafrugell. It’s all still bare bones information, but I wanted to get this down so that you can start planning 🗺️ Kind Regards, Carlton
Read MoreJuly 14, 2025 » Software Crafts » [Archived Version]
To the next decade or two
Read MoreJuly 13, 2025 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]
Today is the 20th anniversary of the first commit to the public Django repository! Ten years ago we threw a multi-day 10th birthday party for Django back in its birthtown of Lawrence, Kansas. As a personal celebration of the 20th, I'm revisiting the talk I gave at that event and writing it up here. Here's the YouTube video. Below is a full transcript, plus my slides and some present-day annotations. Django Origins (and some things I have built with Django) Presented 11th July 2015 at Django…
Read MoreJuly 13, 2025 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]
Today is the 20th anniversary of the first commit to the public Django repository! Ten years ago we threw a multi-day 10th birthday party for Django back in its birthtown of Lawrence, Kansas. As a personal celebration of the 20th, I'm revisiting the talk I gave at that event and writing it up here. Here's the YouTube video. Below is a full transcript, plus my slides and some present-day annotations. Django Origins (and some things I have built with Django) Presented 11th July 2015 at Django…
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