News
Django Technical Board Election Results 2020
The winners of the first Django Technical Board Election after the adoption of DEP-10 are:
- Andrew Godwin
- Adam Johnson
- Markus Holtermann
- Tom Forbes
- James Bennett
Python Release Python 3.9.0
Python 3.9.0 is the newest major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations.
Wagtail Telepath - the next evolution of StreamField
Adding the missing link to provide richer client-side behaviour in StreamField and beyond.
Articles
Django Slug + ID URLs: Copying Dev.to's URL pattern to
Copying the dev.to URL design of a username, slug, and hashed value in Django.
A Django project blueprint to help you learn by doing
A description of a Django project for beginners, which you can build and a short guide on how to design a new website from scratch.
Hijack to Help Customers
How to use the powerful django-hijack
package to support customers by impersonating their accounts.
Events
PyTennessee 2021 CFP closes on October 13
PyTennessee is a yearly regional Python conference in Nashville, TN. The conference was started in 2014 by Jason Myers and Will Golden, and has been a staple of the conference calendar every year since. PyTennessee 2021 will be our 8th year, and our first year doing a purely virtual conference!
Tutorials
Behavior-driven Development: how to develop tests for a Pokédex using BDD
A nice introduction to how to use Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) with Django and Pokémon.
Podcasts
An E-commerce Site That Lets Folks Buy Online Courses
Building a text based course platform with Django and Python.
Episode 1 - Cory Zue of SaaS Pegasus
A new Django podcast from the creator of the video learning JustDjango site.
Episode 10 Ed Rivas - Open Spaces Podcast
Today's guest is Ed Rivas from El Salvador, he gives talks and tutorials at international conferences.
Projects
laymonage/django-template-heroku
A simple Django project ready for Heroku deployment. From Sage Abdullah who added cross-db JSONFields to Django 3.1.
Awesome Django
A repo managed by the authors of this newsletter, now featuring a dedicated Jekyll-supported site.