News

WordPress to Wagtail CMS Migration Kit

There are many reasons to migrate your WordPress site to Wagtail. Rest assured the migration doesn't need to be painful.

Python 3.10.2, 3.9.10, and 3.11.0a4 are now available

The releases you’re looking at were all cursed in some way. What a way to start 2022!

Wagtail Release 2.15.2

Bugfix with one security (CVE-2022-21683) update.

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Articles

Why is Exposing the Docker Socket a Really Bad Idea?

An exploration of why Django sockets should not be exposed in most cases and a real-world use case where the Docker socket needs to be mounted in your container.

Faster API development with django-dataclasses

A description of features contained in the new django-dataclasses library and why it was created.

Events

PyCascades 2022 Schedule

PyCascades is remote on February 5-6, 2022. The schedule of talks is now available.

Tutorials

How to setup Django with PyTest on GitHub Actions

An example of a minimal setup of Django running tests with pytest with fully automated continuous integration (CI) using GitHub Actions.

Videos

Dynamic list views with Django and htmx

How to make Django list views dynamic without writing any JavaScript.

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Podcasts

Django at UC Berkeley - Mohammed Shamma and Matthew Newton

Mohammed and Matthew are software developers at UC Berkeley who use Django and Wagtail extensively. We discuss their programming careers, porting existing projects over to Django, and their excitement around htmx.

Projects

django-modelcluster

Django extension to allow working with 'clusters' of models as a single unit, independently of the database.

django-dataclasses

Implement a JSON API in Django using dataclasses.

locustio/locust

Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.