Django under the Hood - Debugging

Jacob: Works for US government, improves tech, loves to talk about that.
Adrien: Lives here, talks about offline stuff, ServiceWorkers, music, being an expat and having a kid.
FunkyBob: Talks about everything.
Tobias: messages framework, training new people on Django
Danielle: Django-CMS, can help anyone start from the beginning
James: Security, future of Django, trying to make government IT better.
Andrew: Networking, channels.
Tim: is Tim.
Carl: Testing, clean architecture, code quality in large teams.
Josh: ORM and Expressions
Florian: really really weird bugs
Russ: Getting Python running on other platforms, and Australian animals
Ola: diversity, Django girls, ORM, Elixir
Charettes: Zapier, migrations
Aymeric: strong opinions
Idan: designer/developer, Heroku, data visualization
Loic: forms, ORM
Markus: migrations, security
Karen: Helping people learn things, cats
Tomik: Community, inclusivity
Frank: DSF, fundraising, performance, scalability
Michael: Windows, backend stuff
Tom: restframework
Marc: Postgres, ORM

Ligretto

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2016-11-02

The Setting

Because my friends are the most enduring people there are, they indulged me and played several hours of Ligretto with me on my birthday. Yay! We had decided early on that we would play until somebody reached a total score of either 100 or -100 points.

Because my friends are nerds, as the hours passed we noticed that we were generating the most interesting data, and we'd have to look at it later on.

AOSA4 - 500 lines or less

rixx

2016-07-16

This is my review and summary of the latest AOSA book "500 Lines or Less", where experienced programmers solve interesting problems in short(-ish) programs. The book is available for free online, but if you are interested and can afford it, please consider buying the PDF or paperback versions.

DjangoCon Europe 2016 - Lightning Talks Day 3, Part 2

rixx

2016-04-01

DjangoCon Europe 2016 - Using Django with service workers

rixx

2016-04-01

Speaker: Adrian Holovaty (twitter) runs Soundslice.

DjangoCon Europe 2016 - Safe-Ish by Default: The Django Security Model and How to Make it Better

rixx

2016-04-01

Speaker: Philip James (twitter) is a Senior Software Engineer at Eventbrite, who likes writing bots for Slack and Twitter.

Django does the simplest possible thing that works.

DjangoCon Europe 2016 - Don't be afraid of writing migrations

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2016-04-01

Speaker: Markus Holtermann (twitter) is a Django core developer with focus on the migrations framework.

Some things, makemigrations cannot do, and that's where you come in. Everything here is in in Postgres, should work in MySQL, SQLite unsure, Oracle … ask your support.

DjangoCon Europe 2016 - Best Practices for Scaling Django

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2016-04-01

Speaker: Anton Pirker is a Django software engineer.

Normal site: Nginx -> Gunicorn -> Postgres, but the site slows down with increased users.

DjangoCon Europe 2016 - Let's Talk Geo: Adding the "Where" to Your Django Project

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2016-04-01

Speaker: Corryn Smith (twitter) is a grad student and used GeoDjango for Environmental Spatial Analysis.

DjangoCon Europe 2016 - Beyond Web 2.0 - Django and Python in the modern web ecosystem

rixx

2016-04-01

Speaker: Russell Keith-Magee (twitter) is a Django core developer and was the president of the Django Software Foundation for five years. Also, founder of BeeWare and CTO of TradesCloud.

Over the last five years, peoples' expectations of software has changed dramatically. Let's discussed how this is going