This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.
This week we do a DjangoCon retrospective, feature a special live interview with Pownce developers Leah Culver and Mike Malone, discuss a few source commits and some cool projects from the community.
Last weekend I had the unique privilege to attend and participate in DjangoCon, the first international Django based conference. It was a wonderful experience and I had the great opportunity to meet a lot of incredibly smart people. I was especially excited to be able to participate by Moderating two discussion panels and doing the This Week in Django show live. The whole thing was held at Google, which is just amazing, and they recorded all of the presentations and have made them available. I encourage you to enjoy the fun. note, if you want higher quality videos watch them on YouTube and select “watch in high quality”. I participated in the following:
A technical design discussion panel featuring core developers: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, Simon Willison, James Bennett, Malcolm Tredinnick. This one was a ton of fun and I only wish we had more time. I had a bunch of questions that I did not get the opportunity to ask, and others that were covered in prior keynotes so I thought it was best not to harp on them any longer.
A panel discussion on Schema Evolution and three popular approaches to this problem for Django. Featured project leads Simon Willison (dmigrations), Russ Keith-Magee (django-evolution), Andrew Godwin (South). This panel had some spirited discussion on schema evolution and their different approaches. It seems that there are enough similarities that we will hopefully see some collaboration among the projects.
Michael Trier & Brian Rosner do a live presentation of the This Week in Django podcast. We were a bit nervous about this one since in our regular weekly podcast we have an opportunity to stop and start or do certain item over again. With the exception of a couple of minor mistakes it turned out great and was tons of fun. I was quite surprised by the number of questions that were asked. The only bummer about this one right now is that it cuts off the intro and the outro, but we’re trying to get Google to restore that.
Well it’s finally here. Django 1.0 is the moment a lot of us have been waiting for. It’s a very exciting moment for the Django team but even more so for the development community at large. It represents a huge milestone in the web framework space.
Django, without a doubt, brings forth some incredibly innovative ideas that help take web development to the next level. So I am pleased to be a part of this, in some small way, but also looking forward to what’s next for Django and its popularity as a web framework.
If you haven’t had the pleasure to experience Django I encourage you to do so now. You’re programming mind will thank you for the experience.
This Week in Django 36 has been posted. It’s a great episode with our special guest James Bennett. Hear James talk about the book, the blog, speaking, and a whole lot more.
This Week in Django 35 has been posted. Don’t miss it. We catch up with Robert Lofthouse, Chairman of DjangoCon and EuroDjangoCon.
Django documentation has been refactored (Changeset 8506) using the excellent Sphinx – Python documentation generator. This is the same package used to generate the new Python documentation Check out the new docs at http://docs.djangoproject.com/. Now I have to go and update all my shortcut snippets. Thanks go especially to Jacob Kaplan-Moss and numerous contributors for all of their hard work on this one.
My good friend Justin Lilly just posted a great short screencast on using Vim macros. In the screencast he walks you through using the Vim macro commands to record and play back key sequences. Justin, several other friends, and I have been helping each other get the most out of MacVim. I highly recommend you take one minute and give it a viewing.
Since I forgot to blog about it earlier he has also created a excellent post on his Vim setup called Vim: My new IDE. If you’re into Vim or want to get going on it, this post contains an awesome collection of stuff that Justin has found useful.
This Week in Django 34 has been posted.
This week we discuss Django 1.0 Beta 1, a bunch of source commits, some cool projects from the community, and a tip of the week.
Just released is Django 1.0-Beta 1. This is another huge milestone in the push towards Django 1.0. This also means that we are likely to see a more stable trunk, so it looks like it’s heads down on Django once again. Check out the release notes for more information.
But the coding never stops. Tomorrow begins the Release Candidate sprint in Austin, TX and via IRC on freenode #django-sprint. Jump in and squash bugs.
I want to thank all of the contributors for their very hard work.
This Week in Django 33 has been posted.
This week we discuss the NEW This Week in Django site, a bunch of source commits, and some cool projects from the community.
All show notes from now on will be on the new This Week in Django dedicated site.
