This Week in Django 43

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

This week we talk about Django 1.0.1 Beta, a few source commits, some cool projects from the community, and a Tip of the Week.

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

Show Notes

• Super Mario Bros. 2 theme, gypsy-jazz style – unbelievable piece by Adrian Holovaty.

TWiD Updates

• Corrected some nagging errors in search and sitemaps

• Django From the Ground Up: Episode 13 Eric Florenzano continues his series “Django from the Ground Up” and in this episode Eric walks you through configuring server and deploying your project – including Apache, nginx, Django, some reusable apps, and PostgreSQL.

• Upgraded to 1.0.1 Beta

• Poll Results – Now that 1.0 is out and Django will be using timed releases, do you plan to run
  a) Django trunk – 37%
  b) The 1.0 point releases – 33%
  c) The 1.0.X branch and update often – 29%

• This Week’s Poll – (Brought to you by Rob Hudson) Which 3rd party re-usable Django app would you most like to see in Django 1.1?
  a) django-notification
  b) django-tagging
  c) django-registration
  d) django-mailer
  e) django-openid
  f) none, 3rd party apps don’t belong in django proper

• import antigravity

Big News (14:10)

• Django 1.0.1 Beta

Tracking Trunk (19:38)

• When a foreign key is among the unique_together fields in an inline formset properly handle it. (9297)
  • (9298)—1.0.X branch
  • Ensure the foreign key in an inline formset is always present on the forms. Thanks Fugazi for the report. (9326)

• Reformatted contrib.admin CSS to use multi-line selector format so changes can be tracked more easily in version control. (9299)
  • 1.1 only

Community Catchup (26:12)

• NaBloPoMo – November is National Blogging Posting Month. Here’s some of the great Django related blogs that are participating.
  • Eric Florenzano
  • Justin Lilly
  • Brian Rosner
  • Jannis Leidel
  • Adam Gomaa
  • Eric Holscher
  • Patrick Altman
  • James Tauber
  • Greg Newman

• Standalone Django App Testing – Brian Rosner codes up a cool bootstrap script that makes it simple to run tests without having to ensure the you have a setting.py file or that the application is on your python path.

• Development to Deployment in Django – Will Larson delivers another great and thorough post. This time he focuses on how to structure your development environment so deployment is made easy.

• Code Snippet – object-oriented generic views An example of writing generic views in an object-oriented style, which allows for very fine-grained customization via subclassing.

• Remote/telecommuting Gig Filtering The popular DjangoGigs.com website now offers the ability to filter job opportunities for remote/telecommuting gigs… for those looking to save on gas :)

• A WYSIWYM editor widget for Django’s admin interface – TinyMCE has long been the popular default/fallback WYSIWG editor for adding a rich test editor to your Django admin. Jannis details adding a WYSIWYM (hat You See Is What You Mean), which offers a sells itself as “leaving the details of the document’s visual layout, and to concentrate on its structure and meaning, while trying to give the user as much comfort as possible.”. Another added sale for Jannis was that it’s jquery based.
  • Updates to django-dbtemplates – Jannis also updated djang-dbtemplate to support versioning (integrated with django-reversion), as well as new ustomizable caching backend features.

• Generating PDFs with Django – The second of the two posts from UsWareTech, if you’re interested in using your existing HTML templates to generate PDFs then you should read this quick blog post on using Pisa, the python Html2Pdf library.

• sPaste is open sourced – sPaste is a secure pastebin where small snippets of text can be easily submitted, secured, and sent to other people – think a dpaste clone. Grab the source
  • Yet Another Pastebin
  • DPaste

• Python Web Development with Django – Amazing new book now available. By Jeff Forcier, Paul Bissex, and Wesley Chun. Covers 1.0!!!

Tip of the Week (50:25)

Template Debugging – Great tip by Eric Holscher.

>>> from django.template.loader import get_template
>>> get_template('mine/index.html')

>>> get_template('mine/error.html')
Traceback (most recent call last):
 [Chopped a bunch off]
  File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django/template/__init__.py", line 362, in find_filter
    raise TemplateSyntaxError("Invalid filter: '%s'" % filter_name)
django.template.TemplateSyntaxError: Invalid filter: 'wtf'

Thank You! (53:48)

• Michael Trier
  • Twitter
  • Empty Thoughts Blog
• Brian Rosner
  • Twitter
  • Oebfare Blog
• Kevin Fricovsky
  • Twitter
  • Monty Lounge

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