Django will now be doing time-based releases, with minor releases (new features but no backwards incompatible changes) approximately every six months.
Checkout Django 1.1 roadmap and schedule.
This Week in Django have a series of screencast — Django From the Ground Up – from setting up version control, building the models, views, and crafting the templates, to setting up and automatically deploying to a production server.
Brian Beck wrote a reusable Django app that adds batch deletion and batch actions to the Django admin.
The recently concluded DjangoCon was the first official international Django conference. It aims to bring together the community and provide a wide range of sessions, panels, lightning talks and showcases of Django usage within various businesses.
The event was held on September 6-7, 2008 in Mountain View, CA at the Googleplex. For people like us and [...]
Looking at templates for forms in Django http://linkbun.ch/1gns
Django 1.0 represents a the largest milestone in Django’s development to date: a web framework that a group of perfectionists can truly be proud of. Without this amazing community, though, it would have never happened.
You can download Django 1.0 on the Django downloads page, and read the complete release notes.
Over at Django Snippets, Simon Willison have an interesting way of creating a tamper-proof URLs and cookies by signing them, but without the overhead of a full 40 character SHA1 hash.
He experimented further and was able to knock a 40 char hash down to 27 characters by encoding it using a custom base65 encoding which [...]
Patrick Altman have started a new app over on github called django-aws. It’s a small re-distributable django app providing some lightweight integration with Amazon Web Services.
The refactored documentation for the upcoming Django 1.0 release is already up. It is tidied up, rearranged and ported to a new documentation system based on Sphinx. The new URL is docs.djangoproject.com.
Adam Gomaa explains the Python property built-in and shows how it can be used to improve Django’s model-based URL generation.
Minidetector is a simple middleware and associated decorator that will add a “.mobile” attribute to your request objects, which, if True, means the requester is coming to you from a mobile phone (cellphone), PDA, or other device that should be considered small screened, or have an underpowered browser, such as games consoles.
This mostly works using [...]