News
Python Software Foundation News: Noah Alorwu Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q2 2020
Noah Alorwu, software developer and co-founder of DjangoCon Africa has been awarded the Python Software Foundation 2020 Q2 Community Service Award.
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Mystery Science Theatre 3000 with Your Friends
Privately stream movies and chat with your friends on WeeVee. Read about WeeVee’s Django tech stack and request access today!
Articles
r2c blog — Not all attacks are equal: understanding and preventing DoS in web applications
From Django co-creator Jacob Kaplan-Moss, a guide to understanding and preventing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.
How to Unit Test a Django Management Command - Adam Johnson
Management commands are an extremely useful feature in Django, but can be difficult to test. Adam Johnson demonstrates how to do so.
Is Django a Full Stack Framework?
An overview of back-end vs front-end frameworks and where Django sits in the mix.
Events
DjangoCon Europe 2020
DjangoCon Europe kicks off September 18th. Tickets are still available for €29.00 and €79.00 for anyone who wants to support DjangoCon Europe and attend virtually!
Videos
Serving Deep Neural Networks through Django - Psalms Kalu || PyCon Africa 2020
A hands-on workshop session in which we will build a simple deep neural network from scratch using Keras and deploy it into a Django project so that users visiting our website can supply data which our model can make predictions from.
Tairu Oluwafemi - Building production worthy websites with Django || PyCon Africa 2020 - YouTube
What to focus on when building an app for deployment to any cloud hosting platform, notably security, usability, query optimization, and scalability.
Turn Django admin into a lightweight dashboard - Thomas Ayih-Akakpo || PyCon Africa 2020 - YouTube
Use Django's ORM to create useful summary tables and a few charts in the admin.
How to build a simple Twitter clone using Django and Vue.js (3 hours +)
From Code With Stein, a comprehensive tutorial.
Podcasts
Django Chat - Django Community Survey
We’re back after a few weeks away! We discuss the Django Community Survey results, virtual conferences taking place, upcoming Django Technical Board vote, and more.
Running in Production - Social Hiring Platform for the Food and Beverage Industry
NdustryLink is a social hiring platform for the food and beverage industry. It’s built with Django, hosted on Heroku, and took about 9 months of full time development to build as a solo developer.
Django Riffs - Administering Your App
A look at Django's built-in admin app and how to manage your data within it.
Projects
django-dbbackup/django-dbbackup
Management commands to help backup and restore your project database and media files.