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March 17, 2023

DjangoCon US 2023 Preview

Caching DRF, how virtual environments work, django-simple-history deep dive, and more.

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Articles

How virtual environments work

A comprehensive look at how virtual environments work to help demystify them.

Time Travel with django-simple-history

A closer look at django-simple-history, a third-party Django package that provides model version control, including who made the change, when it was made, and the difference.

Marketing for Developers

A reasonably comprehensive list of steps one can take for their projects to get more visibility.

How migrate an existing Joomla CMS website to a Django Backend

Migrating a Joomla based website to a Django Backend with 90 Gb worth of data.

Caching and Django Rest Framework

How and when to cache a Django API, as well as advice for when NOT to.

Design Articles

An end to typographic widows on the web

Currently shipping in Chrome Canary, and thus soon to be in Blink-based browsers, including Edge, is a relatively new CSS declaration that promises to end typographic widows virtually.

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Upgrade Django

Upgrade Django is a simple cheat sheet to Django versions and releases with additional observations from REVSYS on the most exciting highlights, gotchas, and other information from their extensive experience upgrading clients' Django applications.

Podcasts

Django Chat #135: DjangoCon US 2023 - Drew Winstel

Drew is a software engineer at TheNounProject and has chaired many things at DjangoCon US 2019-23. We discuss organizing DjangoCon US events, the tech stack at TheNounProject, homebrewing, testing, ChatGPT, and more.

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