Final week of DSF Nominations

News

2021 DSF Board Nominations

Nominations are open until November 30th for next year's Django Software Foundation board.

Articles

Migrating to a Custom User Model mid-project in Django

A nice summary of the steps needed to migrate to a custom user model mid-project.

The trouble with transaction.atomic by David Seddon

Does Django's transaction.atomic trip you up? Us too.

Django Best Practices: Models

How to properly define and structure your Django models.

Unravelling `not` in Python

Brett Cannon deep dives into how the not operator works in Python.

Django: Testing for Missing Migrations

A short pytest test for missing migrations. Probably useful in every Django project.

Evolution of a Django Repository pattern

An 18-step walkthrough of a sample Django repository.

PostgreSQL Benchmarks: Apple ARM M1 MacBook Pro 2020

If you are curious how PostgreSQL performs on Apple Silicon chips then here you go.

The hidden Django anti-pattern preventing your prod rollback

Hopefully, you won't need to rollback your migrations in production, but if you do you will want to watch out for this pitfall.

Events

Pyjamas 2020 - December 5th, 2020

24 hours streaming of talks about Python and connecting with Python communities around the world that you can access at home.

Design Articles

Learn Tailwind CSS - A Beginners Guide

A beginner-friendly guide to starting with Tailwind CSS, a utility-first approach CSS framework that is growing rapidly in popularity.

Tutorials

Running Django on an iPad

Juan De los santos shows us how to run Django on an iPad using Pythonista.

Podcasts

DjangoChat #79 - Django Software Foundation: 2021 Board Nominations

Nominations are due November 30th for next year’s Board of the Django Software Foundation, the non-profit that runs Django. We discuss the DSF’s mission, day-to-day work, and how to become more involved in the community.

Django Riffs #10 - User Auth

A look at working with users in a Django project. We'll see Django's tools for identifying users and checking what those users are permitted to do on your website.

Running In Production - School Assessments with Django

Brightpath is a formative school assessment tool for 800+ schools in Australia built with Django and running in production since 2017 on AWS.

Final week of DSF Nominations November 27th 2020