Today I had the pleasure of talking about how my team switched from PHP to Python (Django) and the realizations that I had after the process. I learnt a lot about web development in the process and had a great time making the site better for our users.
With the voting period over for DjangoCon Europe talk proposals I wanted to take a couple of minutes and go over what I think makes a good conference talk proposal and a couple of things that you shouldn’t do.
Every developer has their go to list of packages they use when starting out a new project. I thought I’d list my basic set of packages that I use for almost all of my projects. I got this idea from Daniel Greenfeld, you can check out his list here.
With the upcoming release of Django 1.5 one of the largest changes is that you can now specify your own User model. If you’re fine with Django’s current User model than you don’t have to change any code. If you want to take advantage of this new functionality then keep on reading as I’ll go [...]
With the announcement of Django 1.5B1 and the final release of 1.5 around the corner I thought I’d go over some of the largest new features. For those that want to see the release notes you can do so here.
Here’s the presentation I gave about using Travis CI and Django. If you haven’t used TravisCI yet I strongly suggest doing so. If you don’t have any tests for your application to warrant such a program than why are you reading this? Go out and write tests!
DjangoCon Europe was announced earlier this month and for those that missed it here are a few details. DjangoCon Europe will be held in Zurich Switzerland on June 4-6th with sprints happening on the 7th and 8th. For those who are looking to pick up a ticket the early bird prices end this Saturday, March [...]
With the announcement of Django 1.4RC2 and the final release of 1.4 around the corner I thought I’d go over some of the largest new features. For those that want to see the release notes you can do so here.
Sadly DjangoCon 2011 has come and gone and while I’m sad that it is over I’m excited to try the things I learned over the conference. There were a number of excellent talks by a number of great speakers but there were a few that stood out to me.
As the conference wraps up the sprints get started. For those that don’t know what a software sprint is: A sprint is a get-together of people involved in a project to give a focused development on the project. Sprints are typically two to seven days long. Sprints have become popular events among some Open Source projects. [wikipedia] DjangoCon 2011 [...]