News
Last call for DjangoCon US 2023 tickets!
DjangoCon US kicks off this Monday, October 16th - 18th. Online tickets are still on sale!
If you are attending this year, Jeff, Will, and Catherine will be there. Say hello in person or virtually.
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Updates to Django
Last week we had 14 pull requests merged into Django by 10 different contributors - including 4 first time contributors! Congratulations to ume, Pieter Cardillo Kwok, Denis Rouzaud and Faishal manzar for having their first commits merged into Django - welcome on board!
Features for Django 5.1 are already being accepted!
5.1 will allow template tags to set extra data for templates (#34883 and release note) and
assertContains(), assertNotContains(), and assertInHTML() assertions will now add haystacks to assertion error messages (#34657 and release note).
Next week is DjangoCon US! There are a number of ways you can engage in the conference virtually including get involved in the sprints! You can read about this on the Django forum and sign up.
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Wagtail CMS
Our Outreachy projects in 2023
Wagtail is joining Outreachy’s open-source internships program with a focus on accessibility.
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Articles
The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)
Modern extension to classic 2003 article by Joel Spolsky
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Events
It’s my first DjangoCon US. What should I bring?
It’s your first DjangoCon US (or maybe even your first tech conference). Are you concerned about what you should pack?
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Tutorials
Customizing Django 404 and 500 Error Pages
This tutorial will run through a sample Django project to demonstrate the Django default 404 and 500 pages and how to customize them.
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Videos
Django Day Copenhagen 2023 Video Playlist
All videos from Django Day Copenhagen 2023 are now up and available!
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Sarah Boyce - Djangonaut Space - Launch! - Django Day CPH 2023
Sarah Boyce's talk on launching the new Djangonaut Space program to help and mentor new contributors to Django.
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Marijke Luttekes - Clean up your code with quality tools - Django Day CPH 2023
A talk on the myriad tools available to help teams write clean code and even fix common mistakes for you. Examples include the implementation of black, isort, and ruff.
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The Django Styleguide
A pragmatic approach for building Django apps of all sizes. Find it on GitHub today!
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Podcasts
PyCharm's Year of Django - Paul Everitt
Paul Everitt is a Python advocate at JetBrains, the maker of PyCharm. We discuss what makes PyCharm a powerful Python IDE, its current “year of Django” focus, and why testing isn’t about eating your vegetables but joy.
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Projects
carltongibson/django-unique-user-email
Enable login-by-email with the default User model for your Django project by making auth.User.email unique.
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