Django Technical Board Results and Python 3.9 released
Django Stripe subscriptions, slugs, and blueprints for new projects.
News
Django Technical Board Election Results 2020
The winners of the first Django Technical Board Election after the adoption of DEP-10 are:
- Andrew Godwin
- Adam Johnson
- Markus Holtermann
- Tom Forbes
- James Bennett
Python Release Python 3.9.0
Python 3.9.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations.
Wagtail Telepath - the next evolution of StreamField
Adding the missing link to provide richer client-side behaviour in StreamField and beyond.
Articles
Django Stripe Subscriptions
Use Stripe Checkout to add subscriptions to a Django project.
Django Slug + ID URLs: Copying Dev.to's URL pattern to
Copying the dev.to URL design of a username, slug, and hashed value in Django.
A Django project blueprint to help you learn by doing
A description of a Django project for beginners, which you can build and a short guide on how to design a new website from scratch.
Hijack to Help Customers
How to use the powerful django-hijack package to support customers by impersonating their accounts.
Events
PyTennessee 2021 CFP closes on October 13
PyTennessee is a yearly regional Python conference in Nashville, TN. The conference was started in 2014 by Jason Myers and Will Golden, and has been a staple of the conference calendar every year since. PyTennessee 2021 will be our 8th year, and our first year doing a purely virtual conference!
Tutorials
Behavior-driven Development: how to develop tests for a Pokédex using BDD
A nice introduction to how to use Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) with Django and Pokémon.
Podcasts
An E-commerce Site That Lets Folks Buy Online Courses
Building a text based course platform with Django and Python.
Episode 1 - Cory Zue of SaaS Pegasus
A new Django podcast from the creator of the video learning JustDjango site.
Episode 10 Ed Rivas - Open Spaces Podcast
Today's guest is Ed Rivas from El Salvador, he gives talks and tutorials at international conferences.
Projects
adamchainz/django-read-only
Disable Django database writes.
laymonage/django-template-heroku
A simple Django project ready for Heroku deployment. From Sage Abdullah who added cross-db JSONFields to Django 3.1.
Awesome Django
A repo managed by the authors of this newsletter, now featuring a dedicated Jekyll-supported site.
dinoperovic/django-salesman
Headless e-commerce framework for Django.
