In this episode, we ensure that users are logged in for all of the views that depend on request.user being a the current user instance, by wrapping our view in a login_required decorator. We also created a rudimentary navigation user interface. Finally, we added the ability to toggle event attendance.

In this episode, we learn how to use Django's forms library (formerly referred to as newforms) to allow users of the site to be able to add new events to the system. We cover using ModelForms and how that allows us to tie a form instance to a model instance, and how it enables us to use only a subset of fields on the model to generate the form.

In this episode we cover a lot of ground: setting up our url configuration, writing a view to get all of the events for tonight, creating a base template, and extending that base template to render the results of the view that we wrote.

In this episode we continue to build out our events application. Before building our models any further, we decide to install the Django admin site so that we can explore the models. Then we touch on some more advanced topics for more easily querying our Event model.

This week's callcast features the seemingly always busy, and always productive Eric Florenzano. Eric is a cool cat who is very active in the django community. After recently graduating from Iowa State University, Eric is soon off to Japan for a 2 week holiday and then on to San Francisco for his new full-time position as Software Engineer at MochiMedia. He's currently working on django source code ticket #6095 - adding the ability to manually create M2M intermediary models. We talked django, reusable apps, git, model inheritance, django for noobs, and well... a lot of stuff actually. As always, I'm looking for feedback on these callcasts - tips and suggestions are always welcome. Follow the jump to read more...

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