Entries Assigned to Category "News"
Two New Django Community Sites
Published 3 months ago
Two news sites have been released this week which should be beneficial to the Django community: DjangoFriendly and DjangoPost
PyCon 2008: Django Now Plays on the "Dark Side"
Published 3 months, 2 weeks ago
We can now add to the list of virtual machines that will run Django (at least from an academic standpoint).
PyCon 2008: Django (Pre-) Announces Nonprofit Organization
Published 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Adrian Holovaty began "The State of Django" presentation by saying that at the conclusion there would be an announcement about Django. Jacob Kaplan-Moss informed the crowd that they were in the process of forming a Django non-profit organization. This will be a great step forward for the project in many ways.
PyCon 2008: State of Django by Adrian Holovaty
Published 3 months, 2 weeks ago
Adrian Holovaty took the stage on Friday afternoon to talk about developments in the Django code and community during the past year and to highlight upcoming changes that will help Django prepare for the coveted 1.0 release.
Django Sites for Pixel-Challenged Displays
Published 4 months, 1 week ago
Nathan Borror of Playground Blues describes how he enabled his site to support mobile browsers during a mid-afternoon coding session in a local cafe.
Who Doesn't Love a Good Plot?
Published 4 months, 1 week ago
Jacob Kaplan-Moss has made some template tags for working with Google Charts available. Now you can pretty up those reporting apps and it's like you don't even have to think hard!
Model Inheritance Hits QuerySet-Refactor Branch
Published 4 months, 2 weeks ago
OOP purists, Java converts, and "otherwise lazy folk" have long clamored for model inheritance in Django. It will soon be a reality thanks to the efforts of Malcolm Tredinnick et. al. Changeset 7126 to the queryset-refactor branch introduces model inheritance capabilities to the Django framework.
Adrian Holovaty Retires chicagocrime.org
Published 4 months, 2 weeks ago
Adrian Holovaty announced on his blog recently that he would be shutting down chicagocrime.org. Adrian's new venture Everyblock supercedes the functionality of chicagocrimes by providing a variety of city/neighborhood oriented data sets for cities.
