News

Django 3.2 release candidate 1 released

Django 3.2 release candidate 1 is the final opportunity for you to try out the mezcla of new features before Django 3.2 is released.

Django and Wagtail in Google's Summer of Code 2021

[volunteer opportunity] Django is a mentor organization for the 2021 Google Summer of Code. The project is looking for both Mentors and Students.

DjangoCon AU 2021?

[volunteer opportunity] DjangoCon AU is looking for new organizers who are interesting in making the conference happen.

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Articles

Show the timezone for datetimes in the Django admin by Simon Willison

This is a nice tip to show timezone in the Django Admin.

Five Django Packages We Love at Monadical

An overview of five popular 3rd party Django packages.

Dockerizing Wagtail App

An article on Docker Compose and how to combine it with Wagtail and Postgres services.

Implement a comment system for a blog application with Django

A basic example of implementing a comment system in a Django blog application.

PyDev of the Week: Žan Anderle

Žan Anderle is the PyDev of the Week! Žan is a freelance software developer and a Django Software Foundation board member.

My Python testing style guide by Stargirl (Thea) Flowers

One of the best testing guides I have ever read.

Events

DjangoCon Europe 2021

Early Bird tickets are on sale and will end on April 30.

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Podcasts

Django Chat: Python Web Conference with Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Calvin is the CTO at Six Feet Up, a Python, Django and Cloud expert consultancy. We discuss Calvin’s career, the Python Web Conference (March 22-26), and LoudSwarm, a highly-engaging online event platform built by Six Feet Up in the heart of the pandemic.

Projects

dabapps/django-zen-queries

Explicit control over database query execution in Django applications.

simonw/django-sql-dashboard

Django app for building dashboards using raw SQL queries.

django-polymorphic/django-polymorphic

Improved Django model inheritance with automatic downcasting.

tailwindlabs/tailwindcss-jit

An experimental just-in-time compiler for Tailwind CSS that generates your styles on-demand as you author your templates instead of generating everything in advance at initial build time.

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