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If you're a Python Django developer, this video will walk you through how to set up the free Eclipse IDE so you can develop your apps with code complete and graphical debugging!

I reference a blog with links. That's coming soon-ish. (Hopefully this weekend.) For now, here are some of the references from the screencast:

pydev update site: http://www.fabioz.com/pydev/updates

manage.py replacement code from this site: http://bear330.wordpress.com/2007/10/30/how-to-debug-django-web-application-with-autoreload/

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Speakers: Jim Baker and Leo Soto

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Conference Chair Robert Lofthouse, Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Leslie Hawthorn welcome attendees to DjangoCon 2008.

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Speakers: Christian Hammond & David Trowbridge

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Guido van Rossum, creator of Python, on Django and Google App Engine.

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Speaker: Malcolm Tredinnick

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Speaker: Justin Bronn

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Mark Ramm delivers keynote address: "Building a better framework - A Turbogears guy on what Django should learn from Zope."

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Jacob Kaplan-Moss & Adrian Holovaty answer attendee questions following their "State of Django" Keynote

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Various speakers give short talks on Django and related topics.

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Speaker: Malcolm Tredinnick

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Moderator:
Michael Trier

Panelists:
Simon Willison, Russ Keith-Magee, Andrew Godwin

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Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss deliver keynote address "Django's Future"

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Panelists: Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, Simon Willison, James Bennett, Malcolm Tredinnick

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Speakers:
Michael Trier & Brian Rosner

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Moderator:
Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Panelists:
Matt Croydon, Michael Greer, Joshua Jag Ginsberg, Leah Culver, Andy McCurdy, Jason Yan

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Moderated by Adrian Holovaty, panelists Matt Waite (St. Petersberg Times), Maura Chace (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Matt Croydon (Lawrence Journal-World), and Ben Welsh (Los Angeles Times) discuss Django and journalism at DjangoCon. Really good stuff here. The discussion ranges from what’s great and not-so-great about Django in a newsroom to the general decline of the newspaper industry to how to get the “pointy-haired bosses” at traditional media organizations to buy into something other than the “pageviews equals dollars” worldview that is helping to destroy serious journalism in favor of photos of Lindsey Lohan. Really good talk.

Moderator:

Adrian Holovaty

Panelists:
Matt Waite, Maura Chace, Matt Croydon, Ben Welsh

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Speaker: James Bennett

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First Core Meeting

For the first time ever, the Satchmo core development team actually met face-to-face. The panels and discussions at DjangoCon made it completely worth my time and money to attend the convention, but even had they not been so useful, the trip would have been worth it just for the chance to meet and hang out with my fellow core developers.

We decided on our “Road to 0.8 release” strategy. We’re going to clean up the code & docs, closing as many tickets as possible in the next two or three weeks. In the meantime, Jag is going to be testing his shiny new Order Admin screens. When he’s ready, we’ll release!

The 0.8 release will be pinned to Django 1.0, making it much easier for us to tell people what version of Django to use. It is getting quite old to have to repeatedly specify “rev such-and-such” to new users on the Satchmo-Users list.

Initial 1.0 Discussion

Following 0.8, we’re going to work on a six-month release cycle, trying to fairly closely follow the Django Project’s newly announced intention to start doing timed releases.

We came up with quite a list of new or modified functionality we’d like to see in 1.0, but the primary driving force is going to be a very thorough and exciting refactor of the Product Model. Our intention is to make it much easier to allow store owners and developers to create products which exactly fit the specific needs of their store.

Speakers: Chris Moffitt and Bruce Kroeze

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Speaker: James Tauber

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Speaker: Brian Rosner

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Speaker: David Cramer

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Cal Henderson delivered a keynote titled "Why I Hate Django" at the first annual DjangoCon. Django is an open source bsd licensed web framework written in python. Google has posted the keynote in its entirety to Youtube, which you can find embedded above. While the talk is humorous (and takes many jabs at rails developers) it does provide insight into what makes a good web framework. Cal is director of engineering at flickr and is an authority on how to make websites scale. He points out that most frameworks are designed to get projects off the ground quickly, but are lacking when it comes to building an even larger service. He talks about several things in django that need work and improvements that could be made. It’s really an interesting look at what it takes to go big.

Towards the end, Cal notes that django has no mascot, “I could take a framework seriously that had a mascot with magical powers.” well, that seemed to be the easiest thing to fix so avalonstar created django: the web framework for ponies with magical powers. It’s available as wallpaper on djangopony, and ruby legend, _why, has already set about debunking the magic involved.

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It's always nice to branch out from our usual topics. For today's screencast entry, Jeff Hui will show us how to build a basic ticket management system, similar to Lighthouse. Though the project won't be nearly as advanced as Lighthouse - for obvious reasons - it should make for a nice starter for newcomers to the Django framework.

Created by Jeff Hui.

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At work lately we've been writing a bunch of tests for all of the work we've been doing. This is generally a good thing (tm). I was getting tired of manually having to write all of the code to test the views inside of my app. So I decide to write a little app that helps me automate the writing of tests.

I wrote a piece of middleware (that should obviously only be used during development!) that shadows the current activity in django into a log file. This log file should then be ready to copy and paste into a doctest for easy testing of your views. This is a little hard to explain, but the code should be pretty self explanitory.

I created a google code project for it so that people can go ahead and hack on it and make it better. It is pretty rudimentary at current, but it gets the job done.

I think a big win from this approach is that your testing data is much more "real", since it's a copy of your session with a real browser. I know writing django tests I sometimes use contrived data because it is a pain to enter it all. This should help improve on that situation.

Here is a video of it in action, this should allow it to make more sense.

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Join one of Django's lead developers on a ride through Django's history. We'll start in Lawrence, Kansas and look at the birth of Django as a proprietary CMS, follow its progress towards the first open source release, and look at what's changed -- and what's stayed the same -- on the long road to Django 1.0.

Speaker: Jacob Kaplan-Moss
Jacob Kaplan-Moss is one of the lead developers of Django. At his day job, he's a software architect for Whiskey Media, one of those newfangled Web One-Point-Oh companies you've read so much about. A good deal of Jacob's work time is devoted to working on Django.

Jacob previously worked for the Lawrence Journal-World, a locally-owned newspaper in Lawrence, KS where Django was developed. At the Journal-World Jacob was the lead developer of Ellington, a commercial web publishing platform for media companies.

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December 17, 2008

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Learn how to create great web applications quickly on Google App Engine using the Django web framework and the Python language. Google App Engine lets you host complete, scalable web applications written in Python with minimal fuss. This tutorial assumes basic familiarity with Python but definitely no advanced Python knowlege; Django experience is optional. You will learn how to use the Django web framework with the datastore API provided by Google App Engine, and how to get the most mileage out of the combination. You will also see how to use Django best practices like unit testing when developing for Google App Engine.

Guido van Rossum (Google)

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Django is a Python web framework used for rapid application development in any environment. In under 10 minutes, we will go from a bare Linux (Ubuntu) installation to a fully functional Django server.

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We dive into the source code behind the PyCon web site and how we integrate the PHP based PMWiki with Django using a custom Template Loader.

The loader allows for loading PHP source from any other template loader, including django flatpages (stored in database). Included is a demonstration of integrating django into a WordPress site.

Information on accessing the source code can be found on the PyCon-Tech wiki page.

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Django is one of the premier web frameworks for Python, and is often compared to Ruby on Rails. Jacob is one of the lead developers on Django.

Google TechTalks April 26, 2006 Jacob Kaplan-Moss

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An introduction to some of the basic functionality of Django, a Python framework for rapid web development. Areas covered include:

• Setting up a project
• Designing the model
• Installing the administration interface
• Customising administration screens
• URL dispatching
• Generic views
• Django templates

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Thanks to Ian Holsman, we now have a screencast showing how to install a real-life Django application on WebFaction servers. The sreencast shows how to:

• Install a default Django application using our control panel
• Create a database using the control panel
• Change your database password using the control panel
• SSH into your shell account
• Replace the django default project with your own project
• Configure your project settings, sync your database
• Restart your Apache+mod_python instance
• Play with the admin area
• Play with the actual application

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