2020 in Review
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News
2020 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize awarded to Ken Whitesell
Ken Whitesell was awarded the 2020 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize for his many contributions to the Django community.
djangoproject.comThis year we received the highest number of nominations ever received for the Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Price with some being nominated twice, three times, and the highest being six times.
Channels security release issued: 3.0.3
Channels 3.0.3 is a security release and we encourage all users of Channels to upgrade as soon as possible.
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Articles
Django Best Practices: Security
The most-clicked article was by Will on Security, providing a list of top factors to consider in any Django project and tips for locking-down security.
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Docker & Django local development: a minimal, step-by-step guide
The 2nd-most popular article was this guide to running Django within Docker locally. It's a deep topic but this provides a nice overview to getting started.
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Tutorials
Fetching Data with AJAX and Django
The most-clicked tutorial was Brennan's on fetching data with AJAX.
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How to manage logs with Django, Gunicorn, and NGINX
The 2nd most popular tutorial was Matt's on various ways to use logs.
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Podcasts
Django Chat #52: Django & Healthcare with Jacinda Shelly
The top podcast was this one with Jacinda, the co-founder of Apero Health and former CTO of Doctor on Demand.
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Django @Instagram with Carl Meyer
Django core developer and long-time Instagram engineer Carl Meyer talks through Django at massive scale at Instagram.
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Projects
adamchainz/django-perf-rec
Adam Johnson's package to keep detailed records of the performance of your Django code was the most-clicked project by far.
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unistra/django-rest-framework-fine-permissions
Interesting new permissions possibilities for Django REST Framework.
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tailwindlabs/heroicons
Not Django specific, but a set of free MIT-licensed high-quality SVG icons for UI development that go along with Tailwind CSS.
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