This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.
This week we are pleased to have Eric Florenzano on the show. We discuss PyCon 2008, the world-wide sprint, all of Eric’s projects and a few notable blog posts, a few source commits, a new Django book, and recent changes to the Django Bot. This is definitely one of our best shows yet!
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Big News (1:31)
Tracking Trunk (5:09)
- Updated the documentation for patterns() to note Python’s 255 argument limit.
(7110)– This clarifies that Python does have an argument limit to functions.- This came from the django-users posting on Google Grups
- Fixed ModelForms Subclassing – to the extent that it can be made to work.
(7112)– It was possible to subclass Form classes, but not ModelForm classes. This changeset fixes that problem and cleans up a bit of the metaclassing goodness.- Followup Google Groups Discussion on the Subject
(7115)- Make things behave more in line with Python subclassing.
Branching & Merging (12:25)
- Model Inheritance in Queryset-Refactor Branch – This changeset adds abstract base classes and multi-table model inheritance.
Django Interviews (22:21)
Special interview with Eric Florenzano.
Work
- Consultant for EyeSpot Corporation. EyeSpot delivers YouTube type content with special editing capabilities through their Web site.
Projects
- Intermediate Models
(Ticket 6095)– Patch that adds support for Intermediate Models (Join Models). - django-threadedcomments – Google Code project to add slashdot style comment functionality.
- django-comment-utils – James Bennett’s excellent comment utilities application.
- django-mptt – Jonathan Buchanan’s incredible MPTT application.
- django-simpleaggregation – interesting approach to aggregating data on a model.
Writing
- Creating a Pownce Widget Using Django – Great blog post on creating a Pownce widget. Some unconventional approaches.
- python-pownce-api – abstraction by James Bennett
- Pownce
Community Catchup (53:40)
- Preparing For The Next Django Sprint – Excellent post by Django core developer Malcolm Tredinnick discussing the best way to prepare for the Sprint.
- django-evolution – database schema evolution for Django projects.
- Blog discussion about Application Level Context-Processors
- Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours – New book by Brad Dayley about Django. Available March 1, 2008.
- DjangoBot Updates:
- Added new keywords: help, ticket, and changeset
- Added trac tracking
- Reports in the channel when Changesets happen
- Reports in the channel when Tickets are open, closed, or reopened
- Multi-channel support now. Bot can live in several channels at the same time to support things like #django and #django-sprint at the same time.
- Logging support being tested. Release will be forthcoming.
