News
DjangoCon Europe 2020 - Call for Proposals
The deadline is February 29th so get yours in soon!
djangocon.eu
Articles
Understand Group by in Django with SQL
If you have ever struggled with the Django ORM's Aggregate features, then check out this side-by-side comparison/cheatsheet of SQL to Querysets.
hakibenita.com
Custom Exceptions in Django REST Framework
Lacey Williams Henschel shows you how to handle cleaner DRF exceptions.
revsys.com
Moving to Django 3.0's Field.choices Enumeration Types
Django 3.0 added a new powerful way of handle Enumerations for model field choices. Check out this article for a nicer way to use them.
adamj.eu
Tutorials
Learn Django: Django-allauth Tutorial
William walks you through adding third-party (social) authentication to your website.
learndjango.com
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Podcasts
Django Chat #50 - Technical Writing with Mikey Ariel
Mikey is a technical writer at Red Hat and gave the keynote at DjangoCon Europe 2019 on documentation. We discuss how to get into technical writing, her work on Write the Docs, and more.
djangochat.com
Having Fun on the Path to Independence with Cory Zue of Place Card Me - The Indie Hackers Podcast
Cory uses Django at his day job at Dimagi and discusses building two side projects as well: PlaceCardMe and Pegasus.
indiehackers.com
Projects
rsinger86/django-lifecycle: Declarative model lifecycle hooks, an alternative to Signals.
Looking for an alternative to Django Signals? Then check out django-lifecycle which adds hooks to Django models.
github.com
pennersr/django-allauth
Integrated set of Django applications addressing authentication, registration, account management as well as 3rd party (social) account authentication.
github.com