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I had a need to colorize the nicks for the new DjangoBot Logger. Instead of managing a collection of names and corresponding colors we decided it would be more simple to just “hash” the nickname using a colorize filter. This causes the same nickname to always appear in the color.

Based on our discussion on the latest episode of This Week in Django we have decided to go ahead and set up a #django-dev IRC channel. This channel will only be for questions related to developing Django itself, not general user questions.

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!

So it appears that while we have all been whimpering about missing inheritance functionality in Django models, Malcolm Tredinnick has been extremely busy getting it implemented. Changeset 7126 adds two very cool pieces to Django’s model options: abstract base classes and model inheritance.

You can definitely feel the momentum in Django these days. So, it is no surprise that Sams Publishing chose to offer Django in its Teach Yourself series. This one is written by Brad Dayley and is titled Sams Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours.

This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.

This week we talk about a few source commits, a discussion about unicode usernames, Some cool projects from the community, the Tip of the Week, and a couple of questions from the IRC.

In this screencast I cover converting an existing application to the NewForms-Admin Branch of Django. We will cover hooking the NewForms-Admin into our urls.py module, extracting out the inner Admin class information into a NewForms-Admin class, handling the prepopulate_from, and organizing our admin class information into a separate module.

Django Screencasts are now available in flash format at ShowMeDo. It took me a while to get everything working on their end, but Ian and team have been wonderful and quite helpful. Speaking of ShowMeDo, they have a bunch of Python and Django videos as well as others. Great stuff. I encourage you to check it out.

This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.

This week we talk about a few source commits, the new IRC bot, a few development level proposals, Some cool projects from the community, the Tip of the Week, and a couple of questions from the IRC.

In this screencast I cover how to implement application based settings in a way that keeps the application pluggable. Watch this screencast and learn more.

If you plan to attend PyCon 2008 in Chicago (and you should plan on it) you can now proudly display PyCon 2008 Badges on your Web site.

In this screencast I cover how to map specific URLs to the Flatpages contrib. There are times when you want the advantages and flexibility of flatpages, but also do not want URL mapping to be open ended and are uncomfortable with the fallback middleware approach. Watch this screencast and learn more.

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• Django Documentation on Flatpages

This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.

This week we have our special guest Matthew Wensing on the show to discuss his work with the Django GIS Branch (GeoDjango). We also cover EveryBlock, Some cool projects from the community, the Tip of the Week, and a couple of questions from the IRC.

Shabda Raaj has created a site called 7Days7Apps where he is attempting to create seven Django applications in seven days. At this point he’s on day three. It’s an interesting idea and sure to generate some marketing for his site (already #53 on programming.reddit.com), but it is a bit of an exaggeration to call these applications. So far he has created a ToDo List, a DPaste “clone”, and a time tracking application.

It is really good to see people that are passionate about Django and want to be able to demonstrate that passion. Although, as expressed in some of the reddit comments, I can’t help but wonder if it would have been more impressive to create one well thought out app with a nice design in seven days.

As promised, Brian Rosner, co-host of This Week in Django, has just released a screencast on Using Git with Django. Although this is Brian’s first screencast, he has put together a very professional tutorial. It’s enough to wet your appetite for using Git with Django.

I expect, and hope, that we will see more great screencasts from Brian in the future.