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Design and Stripe - Building SaaS #180

Jan. 18, 2024 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I started with a plan to work on Stripe checkout, but realized that I needed to come up with a better plan and also improve the base template of the app. We ended up doing more design work than working with Stripe, but we ended the stream with a solid plan of what to do next.

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Weeknotes (2024 week 03)

Jan. 17, 2024 » Matthias Kestenholz: Posts about Django » [Archived Version]

Weeknotes (2024 week 03)Djangonaut Space I wish all participants a good time and much success. I do not have anything to do with it really but I enjoy the idea a lot and maybe there will be a pull request or two to review. Kubernetes After years and years of hosting all sites on VPS I have finally reached the point where the old setup is more annoying to work with than switching to a new one. I have searched long for a solution which wasn’t as limited as some PaaS and as complex as going full K…

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Boost Your Django DX update out now

Jan. 17, 2024 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

I just released a major update to my 2021 book Boost Your Django DX. This update contains new content, a bunch of edits, and uses the latest versions of tools, including Python 3.12 and Django 5.0. Boost Your Django DX contains many recommendations to improve your development experience …

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Django, SQLite, and the Database is Locked Error

Jan. 16, 2024 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

Explains `database is locked` errors in Django when using SQLite, and how to solve them.

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DjangoCon Europe 2025 Call for Proposals

Jan. 15, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

DjangoCon Europe 2024 will be held June 5th-9th in Vigo, Spain but we're already looking ahead to the 2025 conference. Could your town - or your football stadium, circus tent, private island or city hall - host this wonderful community event? Hosting a DjangoCon is an ambitious undertaking. It's hard work, but each year it has been successfully run by a team of community volunteers, not all of whom have had previous experience - more important is enthusiasm, organizational skills, the ability …

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Django News - It's Migrations week 📦 - Jan 12th 2024

Jan. 12, 2024 » Django News » [Archived Version]

Django Software Foundation DSF membership now recognizes a much broader range of contributions to Django The Django Software Foundation has updated its bylaws to represent better who may be a member. djangoproject.com DSF Board 2024 Elections – New board members 👋 Following the 2024 DSF Board Election Results, here are quick introductions from our two new board members, Sarah Abderemane and Thibaud Colas. djangoproject.com …

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Verify Paddle Billing Webhook Signatures in Python

Jan. 11, 2024 » Josh Karamuth » [Archived Version]

Learn how to verify that webhooks hitting your back-end are from Paddle and not anyone else.

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DSF membership now recognizes a much broader range of contributions to Django

Jan. 10, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]

Recently, the DSF made some changes to our bylaws to change the definition of DSF Membership. You can read the legalese of the new language in the meeting minutes for the October 12 board meeting, but here’s the short version: previously, individual membership required contribution of intellectual property (e.g. code or documentation) we’ve changed it so that individual membership now recognizes broader contributions to the DSF’s mission. That still includes code and docs, but now also includes…

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Django Views as Serverless Functions on Fly Machines

Jan. 10, 2024 » Django Beats » [Archived Version]

In this post, we demonstrate how to use Fly Machines to run Django Views as Serverless Functions. Django on Fly.io is pretty sweet! Check it out: you can be up and running on Fly.io in just minutes. In my last post, we ran custom Django commands as serverless functions by defining a new process to run within a Machine. This article continues our series transforming our Django views into serverless functions by defining a service. But first, let’s understand some concepts about Fly Machines. F…

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Generate good looking PDFs with WeasyPrint and Jinja2

Jan. 10, 2024 » Josh Karamuth » [Archived Version]

Learn how to easily generate beautiful PDFs in Python

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