Django weekly 3

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Djangocon Recap Day 1 and Day 2

How to Create a Custom Django Middleware

How to Extend Django User Model

The Django’s built-in authentication system is great. For the most part we can use it out-of-the-box, saving a lot of development and testing effort. It fits most of the use cases and is very safe. But sometimes we need to do some fine adjustment so to fit our Web application. In this tutorial I will present the strategies you can use to simply extend the default Django User Model, so you don’t need to implement everything from scratch. 

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Best Gitter channels: Python & Django

Gitter is like slack for communities. Where developers come to talk/communicate with each other. There are quite a few good Python Django channels in there have a look. 

One page websites with Django CMS

Is it possible to create a one page website using Django CMS that is fully editable by the user? I have always liked to explore the tools we use so that we can use them in the best possible way, however, this does not always mean we use them in the way the authors had intended. My tweaks, presented below, were written with the same creative intent as the guys who implemented the game tetris using Excel. 

Using S3 for Django Media Files

Storing media files off of your server in a service like S3 is safe?—?even if your web server gets hit by a nuke, your media files will still be accessible?—?and becomes cost effective as you aggregate lots of media files. 

Django + Elastic Search + haystack = Powering your website with search functionality – part 1

Having said that, implementing search into your web app is not difficult thanks to lot of libraries built for this purpose. In this article, we will discuss how to power up your django website with search functionality using haystack and elastic search. Assuming you already have a fair knowledge of django web framework, lets jump on to haystack and elastic search. 

How to Optimize Images for Page Load Speed in Django ?

Now we’re dealing with sites that are routinely 2MB or higher. That is the size of Doom, a video game from the mid 90s. The main driver of most of this bloat is images. In June 2011, the average site had 480KB of images, and now the average is 1.4MB. 

Django security releases issued: 1.10 release candidate 1, 1.9.8, and 1.8.14

the Django team is issuing Django 1.10 release candidate 1, Django 1.9.8 and 1.8.14. These release addresses a security issue detailed in the blog post. 

Projects

django-jet - 432 Stars, 65 Fork

django-functest - 7 Stars, 1 Fork