This Week in Django 37

This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.

This week we’re featuring our LIVE broadcast from DjangCon 2008, cover the official release of Django 1.0, the This Week in Django website redesign, along with interviews with Daniel Ha and Andrew Badhr of Disqus, and James Tauber of Cloud27.com

Please see the Show Notes below for all the pertinent information and links.

Note: The first few minutes of the show were not made available. Sorry for the inconvenience. We noted all the discussion points below in case you weren’t at DjangoCon. Thanks.

Show Notes

We’re broadcasting live from DjangoCon at Google.

Before we get started I’d like to ask for a show of hands how many people are listeners to This Week in Django?

For those of you that aren’t aware of the podcast, This Week in Django is a weekly podcast that covers what is going on in the Django Community. We feature segments that touch on recent commits, occasional interviews, some items from the community, and a Tip of the Week. You can find out more at http://thisweekindjango.com/.

• This Week in Django Redesign – the code, the design, the idea of an open sourced version of it, the new angle for TWiD as both the podcast AND an edited community portal.

A lot of people that are new to the program may be unaware that the intro we use on TWiD was written by Adrian Holovaty. Thank you Adrian, it’s our favorite part of the show.

Big News ()

• Release 1.0 – Well it’s finally here. Some of the new features are: (the plan here is to discuss each of these briefly)
  • Re-factored admin application
  • Improved Unicode handling
  • An improved ORM
  • Automatic escaping of template variables
  • GeoDjango
  • Pluggable file storage
  • Jython compatibility
  • Generic relations in forms and admin

** Release Blog
** Release Notes

Interview – Disqus

DANIEL HA
ANDREW BADHR

Disqus, is a service and tool for web comments and discussions. The Disqus comment system can be plugged into any website, blog, or application. Disqus makes commenting easier and more interactive, while connecting websites and commenters across a thriving discussion community.

I’m pleased to say we have no tracking trunk

Community Catchup

• Django, still amazing me after all these years – Adrian Holovaty writes an inspiration post about the release of 1.0 and how the Django community has evolved over time.

• Cloud27 – Is an early-beta social networking site built on the open-source Pinax platform. James Tauber actually released Cloud27 live in his Talk on Pinax and reusable apps.

• Django i18n Stats – An incredible site build on Google App Engine that gives you the status of the 47 Django translations.

• How to upgrade to Django Comments 1.0 With the recent release of new comments, those who want to upgrade from old comment have some work to do. Patrick Beeson noted the steps needed to update your database updates, data migrations, markup changes, CSS changes, etc.

• Django Tips Podcast – Beshr Kayali began a new Django Tips Podcast. It’s great to see other people in the community getting started with podcasts. We wish Beshr luck.

• Going Live: ‘This Week in Django’ at DjangoCon – Linux Pro Magazine has run an article, writing by Kevin Fricovsky, on the podcast. It was very encouraging to see it.

• django-clevercss This project allows you to create CleverCSS (CleverCSS is a small markup language for CSS inspired by Python that can be used to build a style sheet in a clean and structured way) stylesheets using the classic Django administration utility stored in your database. The included template tag retrieve the stylesheet by its title and spits out a file on the filesystem each time the stylesheet changes in the database.

• Amusing Tidbits from DjangoCon 2008
  • “The loos’ seats at Building 40 of the Googleplex are heated! I have never met a warmed toilet seat before. The lap of luxury, indeed.”
  • “Speaking of male heavy tech conferences, the upside is that there is plenty of eye candy if you prefer the gents. Slightly geeky eye candy, but delightful nonetheless.”

Tip of the Week

• Django and relativity by Rob Hudson

Questions from the Audience

Thank You!

• Running Time: 45:10