Saturday, February 28, 2009

This Week in Django 55

with hosts Brian Rosner and Eric Florenzano

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

This we talk about the new 1.1 release plan, some community items and a tip of the week.

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

Show Notes

TWiD Updates

TWiD Sprint

As soon as we are finished wrapping up the recording of this show, we are all doing a bit of sprinting on the TWiD webpage codebase. Depending on when we deploy the new features (sooner rather than later, hopefully) the site may be a bit sporadic. The big things will include enclosures for all the feeds (even for those not using iTunes) and many more bugfixes!

This Week’s Poll

Where do you use Django?
  • At work (6%)
  • At home (34%)
  • Both (61%)
How do you use Django reusable apps?
  • Fork them
  • Install them
  • I don’t use reusable apps

Big News

  • Revised 1.1 release plan – Jacob Kaplan-Moss posted an update on the Django developers Google group earlier today that the Django 1.1 release will be delayed. The target date is now April 13. Quick notes – model validation will be dropped and all other “must-haves” will be moved to “maybes.” More details on the jump.

Tracking Trunk

Community Catchup

  • Washington Times releases open source projects – Shortly after our recent callcast with Corey Oordt, Deputy Internet Director for the Washington Times, today the team is making it official by publicly announcing their open source projects: django-projectmgr, django-supertagging, django-massmedia, and django-clickpass. They are being released under the Apache License, version 2.0.
  • Django-annoying – Helpers and shortcuts created by a developer to help eliminate “annoying things in Django framework.”
  • Django-LA – There are some Django hackers in and around LA who have had a few meetups, and it looks like their next meeting will be on March 15th. The meetings are organized by Kris Kowal and they seem to really be picking up steam. Definitely check this out if you’re near LA.
  • DB2 support for Django is coming – Antonio Cangiano, who works at IBM, lets us know that IBM is planning on releasing a DB2 database backend for Django. It’s great to know that the database backend ecosystem is about to grow!
  • Parsing unescaped urls in django – Marc Garcia shares his technique on dealing with requests from HTTP clients which escape the URL improperly. It’s an awesome/awful hack that you might need. Like usual, there’s an interesting discussion in the comments.
  • RSS feed for comments on a Django blog entry – Patrick Beeson describes his method of turning a list of Django comments into an RSS feed. If you haven’t yet delved into RSS feed generation, this is a nice real-world example.

Tip of the Week

PREPEND_WWW and APPEND_SLASH

Thank You!