News

PSF News: The PSF is hiring a Python Packaging Project Manager!

Thanks to a two-year grant commitment from Bloomberg, The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is hiring a full-time project and community manager for the Python Packaging ecosystem, with a specific focus on the Python Package Index (PyPI).

Sponsored Link 1

Migrating from Django 1.7 to 3.1 is no small task. Learn how to successfully leapfrog a massive Django/Python upgrade.

Articles

Fluent in Django: 8 Django Template Tags You Should Know

Django comes with a number of built-in template tags and this article covers 8 less common but still very useful ones to know.

How to convert a TestCase from setUp() to setUpTestData()

Django Technical Board member Adam Johnson shows how to convert your tests to speed up performance.

PyDev of the Week: Haki Benita

This week we welcome Haki Benita (@be_haki) as our PyDev of the Week!

Extending Django Wizards

Demonstrates how to extend default Django forms using the "wizard" pattern.

Events

DjangoCon Europe 2021 Early Bird Tickets End Today!

Last call on DjangoCon Europe Early Bird Tickets. Sales end on April 30th.

Django London May Meetup

You can submit to talk at this or a future event with this form: https://forms.gle/cXMDC43Ja5HSBvPy8

Videos

DEFNA Interviews - Katherine Michel and Katia Lira

DEFNA (Django Events Foundation of North America) runs DjangoCon US each year. This is a video with Katherine and Katia from DEFNA talking about managing social media, website design and overall outreach for DjangoCon.

Sponsored Link 2

Senior Django Developer

As a Senior Django Developer you’ll work alongside the CTO, fellow software engineers, product managers, and designers, to execute major technical projects on Muck Rack, lead the building of new features, and help shape our engineering culture and processes. Our engineers are not siloed to any particular part of the application–everyone contributes everywhere. You should be excited about working with large amounts of data.

Podcasts

Django Chat: Python Software Foundation with Ewa Jodlowska

Ewa is the Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation, the non-profit behind Python. We discuss her own background, the growth of Python and the PSF, and new developments in the Python community.

Projects

mherrmann/django-404-middleware: An alternative to Django's BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware

An alternative to Django's BrokenLinkEmailsMiddleware - mherrmann/django-404-middleware

furious-luke/django-address

A Django address model and field. Addresses may be specified by address components or by performing an automatic Google Maps lookup.

django-otp/django-otp

A pluggable framework for adding two-factor authentication to Django using one-time passwords.

Sponsorship

Sponsor Django News Newsletter!

Reach over 1,890 engaged Django developers every week. Sponsorship availability, prices, and details are available here.