News

Announcing our DjangoCon US 2024 Talks!

The complete 2024 DjangoCon US talk and tutorial lineup is now live. DjangoCon US is from September 22nd to the 27th.

PSF News: Announcing the 2024 PSF Board Election & Proposed Bylaw Change Results!

The PSF membership approved all three bylaw proposals and elected three directors to the Python Software Foundation Board of Directors.

Python 3.13.0 beta 4 released

Python 3.13.0b4 is the final beta release preview of 3.13.

The Python Software Foundation announced hiring two new positions this week with PyPI Support Specialist and Infrastructure Engineer roles.

Updates to Django

Today 'Updates to Django' is presented by Raffaella Suardini from Djangonaut Space!

Last week we had 12 pull requests merged into Django by 10 different contributors - including 4 first-time contributors! Congratulations to Lucas Oliveira, brucejwb, wookkl and Daniel for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!

Inside the Forum there's an interesting idea to simplify generating date range reports using Postgress' generate_series(). Join the conversation.

Did you miss Djangocon Europe this year? See the talks here

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Django for Beginners, Fifth Edition

The fifth edition covering Django 5.x is now available! It includes loads of new content, including sections on Django architecture, a new Company Website project, full coverage of function-based and class-based views, testing, and a revised deployment guide.

Articles

Django from first principles, part 12

This project is about building a blog in Django. The article here focuses on reorganizing a project to manage increasing complexity.

dj-stripe contains models for all the Stripe objects and can sync them for you

Lacey's TIL for quickly setting up dj-stripe.

Install Django with SQLite on Upsun

Upsun is a new Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) offering from Platform.sh, and here is how to use SQLite with it.

Django Migration Operations aka how to rename Models

Renaming a table in Django seems more complex than it is.

Flask vs Django in 2024: A Comprehensive Comparison of Python Web Frameworks

A detailed look at the two most popular Python web frameworks. Also shows how to build two web apps with both Flask and Django to directly compare their features.

Events

Django Day Copenhagen CFP

The Call for Proposals is open. The third edition of this Django Day will be held on Friday, October 4th, 2024. It will be a full day of talks, followed by an evening of social events.

DjangoCon Videos

DjangoCon Europe 2024: API Maybe: Bootstrapping a Web Application circa 2024

Bootstrapping a Web Application circa 2024 by Carlton Gibson.

DjangoCon Europe 2024: Empowering Django with Background Workers

Empowering Django with Background Workers by Jake Howard.

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HackSoft - The Django Experts You Can Count On

Unlock the full power of Django with our team of experts. Learn more about our consulting services.

Django Job Board

Senior Django Developer at Type/Code LLC 🆕

Full-Stack Developer (Django) at Copient.ai

Software Engineer at Check

Software Engineer at NetBox Labs

Principal Software Engineer (Remote - USA Only) at U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms

Senior Back-End Engineer at Cube Software

Projects

taobojlen/zealot

Detect N+1s in your Django app.

philgyford/django-ditto

A collection of Django apps for copying things from third-party sites and services.

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