This Week in Django 41

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

This week Eric Florenzano fills in and we talk about what is going on in the community.

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

Show Notes

• Eric Florenzano fills in while Michael was out sick.

Tracking Trunk (1:07)

• Display non_field_errors of inline forms in the admin. (9243)

Community Catchup (3:18)

• Pinax 0.5.0rc1 is out – The very first release of any kind is now out for the Pinax project. A 0.5.0 will be released soon.
  • Pinax project Official Website
  • James Tauber giving a Pinax talk at DjangoCon

• New Django CMS Project – New open source Django CMS Project which is centered around the “page” concept but has a few nice features including custom content, various markup types, language, assigning templates, tiered navigation, drag and drop interface, etc.

• Orderable inlines using drag and drop with jQuery UI – Some discussion was flying around DjangoCon about a more advanced admin UI for ordering data in the admin. Simon posted this snippet shortly after and it looks like it makes ordering data via drag/drop very easy – “An easy way of making inlines orderable using drag-and-drop, using jQuery UI’s sortable() plugin.”

• example of row-level permissions in the admin – If you ever wanted to know ho to customize the Django admin to allow row level specific permissions then this code snippet if for you. Quote from the snippet, “a very simple multiple user blog model with an admin interface configured to only allow people to edit or delete entries that they have created themselves, unless they are a super user.”

• Efficient and Lightweight Notices in Django
  • Proposal: Decouple messages from contrib.auth – django-developer mailing list

• Jutda Helpdesk – A Django-Powered Ticket Tracker for Small Enterprise

• Django Tip: Poor Man’s Model Validation

• Cache Decorator Snippets – Cache creation and Cache invalidation

Thank You! (28:29)

• Be sure to listen to the end. Eric and Brian discuss Python documentation.

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