The place to submit questions for the panel on NoSQL that will happen at DjangoCon 2010.
If you're an active Forrst.com then user you'd know Kenneth Love is active in almost all the Django discussions going on in the Forrst community. He's recently taken that discussion to his blog and started a screencast series titled "Getting Started with Django". In his first of currently 3 episodes he covers getting yourself setup locally, then working with app settings, diving into models and introduces South. Go take a peek.
Describe as "a powerfull tool to easily and super-fastly develop asynchronous presentation logic in web applications using python and almost no lines of JS source code." DAjax currently supports up to four of the most popular JS frameworks: Prototype, jQuery, Dojo and mootols. The project site has some examples and links to documentation which is hosted over on the Github repository -http://github.com/jorgebastida/django-dajax
Simpleadmindoc is django application that allows you to quickly create help for modules in Django admin. Goal is to be flexible enough, fast to create and easy to integrate.
Waldemar Kornewald discusses his new project django-nonrel which is a port of Django with the goal of supporting non-relational databases. Currently it provides an App Engine backend; work has begun on MongoDB support as well.
Rich Leland discusses how the team at Discovery.com handles image uploading and their post processing flow, and walks through a quick start in getting your hands dirty with message queues, Django, and Celery.
Daniel Roseman discusses his solution for optimizing generic relationships.
If 24ways.org is "the advent calendar for web geeks" then DjangoAdvent is the advent calendar for Django geeks. Inspired by the many 'advent calendar' websites out there, DjangoAdvent is a series of articles about upcoming releases of the Django web framework. Right now it looks like there are 12 articles in the queue but I believe more may be coming. Excellent work Rob Hudson and Idan Gazit.
Django-Voice is community feedback application ala UserVoice and GetSatisfaction.It was originally built for VerbApp (http://verbapp.com/) and the templates looks really nice. Tipped by Ross Poulton, thanks Ross.
Cody Soyland discussing the many caching options available to you as a Django developer and provides some benchmarks using his current deployment stack... "Caching is one of the first things you can do when you need to start thinking about scaling. Among efforts such as query minimization, denormalization, code optimizations, compression, database tuning, indexing, and load balancing, caching remains one of the lowest hanging fruits in methods to lighten your server load and handle huge amounts of traffic."
Chris Adams saves you the trouble if you're looking to easily save a remote file locally via HTTP by using Django's NamedTemporaryFile and urllib2.
Interesting idea. From the author: "googleappsauth allows you to authenticate your Django users against an Google Apps domain. This means you basically get a single sign-on solution, provided that all users of your django application also have Accounts in Google Apps for your Domain."
Having gone through similar research myself it's nice to see someone publish a round up all the available Django apps that help manage multilingual content. The author provided a brief, yet critical review of each app. Good read.
In this thorough post, Matt Dorn works you through integrating Django-Piston in your already existing Django project as well as wiring up your RESTful results with an Ext JS widget. He also details extending Piston by creating your own custom emitter.
Zain Memon was inspired by all the logging discussions lately in the Django community, so he wrote a wrapper for Python's logging module called Jogging (pronounced "yogging"). The idea took inspiration from the ongoing discussion found in the Django developers google group "Proposal for 1.2: built-in logging with django.core.log". Zain would love your thoughts on whether this approach is viable for 1.2 or if jogging is better off as an app on pypi. And yes we need to add markup to these posts so links are hyperlinked, etc. Sorry about that.
An interesting idea to continue the efforts behind the popular, open source <a href="http://everyblock.com">EveryBlock</a> application (view source on <a href="http://github.com/brosner/everyblock_code/tree/master/">github</a>) which was <a href="http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/17/msnbc-picks-up-hyperlocal-news-aggregator-everyblock/">acquired by MSNBC</a> recently. Pull quotes: "We don't want to be doing something that just benefits big news organizations," Kebbel said. "We want something that anyone can benefit from." The Knight Foundation is working with advisers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to form a team to further development of EveryBlock and ...
A framework for performing and analyzing split-test experiments in Django applications. Django-lean aims to be a collection of tools for startups using the Django platform. Currently it provides a framework for implementing split-test experiments in JavaScript, Python, or Django template code along with administrative views for analyzing the results of those experiments.
The Washington post's new alert feature is powered by Django. Here's a pull from the story - "Jesse Foltz, the front-end developer of the project, wrote the Post Alerts in JavaScript, using the Prototype and MooTools libraries. The back-end, which was built by Lee Trout, is a Django admin where editors can schedule Alerts."
Django-Piston is an interesting new project that has come out of BitBucket which lets you easily create programmatic RESTful APIs for your Django website. If you need to build an API, you should check this out.
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