News

DjangoCon Europe is coming to Edinburgh!

The website is completed and up now. Dates are May 29th - June 2nd with a Call for Proposals coming soon.

Python 3.12.0 alpha 4 released

Python 3.12 is still in development and this is the fourth of seven planned alpha releases.

PSF News: Starting 2023 with momentum, thanks to you!

The PSF ended their year-end fundraiser and membership drive with over 300 memberships and renewals and raised $61,868 with JetBrains’ generous matching.

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Articles

Environment Files Help You Store Variables

A solid description of environment variables and how/why to implement them via a .env file.

Headaches migrating an old postgis database server

How to use pgdump --format=custom to get around some issues with migrating a much older legacy database.

WebAssembly and its platform targets

Brett Cannon answers the question, "What is WebAssembly?"

Events

Reflection on DjangoCon 2022

Ronard and Colin's Recaps on DjangoCon US 2022.

Open Source events to attend in 2023

Mesrenyame shares several Open Source conferences and events to expect in 2023, including calls for proposals and how to find other ways to participate.

Design Articles

How to Favicon in 2022: Six files that fit most needs

Favicons are kind of a mess, but here is the ultimate, exhaustive guide to favicons for the modern web, which includes steps for static HTML and Webpack.

Tutorials

Deploying Django apps with Github Actions and Django Up

Detailed steps to deploying a new Django app via Github actions and the open source Django Up configuration tool.

Deploying a Django App to Render

A comprehensive tutorial on Render and how to deploy a Django application with a PostgreSQL instance onto it.

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Django Codebase

Favorite 3rd Party Environment Variables Package?

A Django Forum thread on current options for implementing environment variables.

Projects

jacklinke/django-pint-field: Use pint with Django's ORM

Use pint with Django's ORM.

sesh/django-up

Almost zero configuration Django deployments to a Ubuntu 22.04 server.

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