Sept. 26, 2024 » Software Crafts » [Archived Version]
A possible idea for the admin
Read MoreSept. 25, 2024 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]
Happy DjangoCon US 2024 to you. Whilst I am not there, I have adopted the spirit of the season and got to work hacking together a new tool. Djade is a formatter for Django templates. It applies rules based on the template style guide in Django’s contribution documentation, plus …
Read MoreSept. 25, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
Nominations are open for the 2025 Django Software Foundation Board of Directors. In 2023 we introduced a staggered term for directors. Of our 7 directors, there are 4 positions currently open, with each position serving for two years. Decisions around the 2025 officer roles will be made during the meeting of the new board. You don’t need to specify which position you are nominating for. As you know, the Board guides the direction of the marketing, governance and outreach activities of the Djang…
Read MoreSept. 25, 2024 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]
DJP is a new plugin mechanism for Django, built on top of Pluggy. I announced the first version of DJP during my talk yesterday at DjangoCon US 2024, How to design and implement extensible software with plugins. I'll post a full write-up of that talk once the video becomes available - this post describes DJP and how to use what I've built so far. Why plugins? Setting up DJP django-plugin-django-header django-plugin-blog django-plugin-database-url Writing a plugin W…
Read MoreSept. 25, 2024 » Matthias Kestenholz: Posts about Django » [Archived Version]
Weeknotes (2024 week 39) CSS for Django forms Not much going on in OSS land. I have been somewhat active in the official Django forum, discussing ways to add Python-level hooks to allow adding CSS classes around form fields and their labels. The discussion on the forum and on the pull request goes in the direction of allowing using custom BoundField classes per form or even per project (instead of only per field as is already possible today). This would allow overriding css_classes, e.g. to add…
Read MoreSept. 25, 2024 » Software Crafts » [Archived Version]
A follow up to yesterday's post
Read MoreSept. 24, 2024 » Simon Willison's Weblog: django » [Archived Version]
nanodjango Richard Terry demonstrated this in a lightning talk at DjangoCon US today. It's the latest in a long line of attempts to get Django to work with a single file (I had a go at this problem 15 years ago with djng) but this one is really compelling. I tried nanodjango out just now and it works exactly as advertised. First install it like this: pip install nanodjango Create a counter.py file: from django.db import models from nanodjango import Django app = Django() @app.admin # Registe…
Read MoreSept. 24, 2024 » Software Crafts » [Archived Version]
Where do the community talk and push things forward?
Read MoreSept. 23, 2024 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
DjangoCon US is a six-day international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in North America.
Read MoreSept. 23, 2024 » The Django weblog » [Archived Version]
The Django Software Foundation's biggest fundraising event of the year is here! Get 30% off PyCharm, Support Django Each year, our friends at JetBrains, the creators of PyCharm, run an incredible deal. You get a 30% discounted year of PyCharm, AND the DSF gets 100% of the money. Yes, 100%! It's making a donation and directly getting a great product in return! This is available for new users, and those who had used PyCharm in the past, stopped, and want to try again. The fundraiser The fundraise…
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