1) EuroDjangoCon 2011 Announced

EuroDjangoCon is coming to Amsterdam, June 6th-10th, 2011. There's not an official site yet, but there is a <a href="http://lanyrd.com/2011/djangocon-europe/">conference page on Lanyrd</a>.

2) Django-CMS 2.1 RC

The first Django-CMS 2.1 release candidate dropped on Christmas Eve, featuring a revised system for registering 3rd party applications, and enhanced documentation.

3) Python Interpreter Tricks

John Anderson has written a nice summary of .pythonrc hacks to bring some features from ipython and bpython into the standard interpreter, along with a useful snippet for automatically loading your models when running ./manage.py shell

4) Real time applications with Django, XMPP and StropheJS

This blog post from Agiliq introduces django-pubsub, a Django app which allows you to attach publish/subscribe events to your models. Agiliq have been publishing a lot of interesting articles on <a href="http://agiliq.com/blog/">their blog</a> recently, it's worth subscribing to.

5) Further information about the Django admin vulnerability

This post to <a href="http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/">Full Disclosure</a> gives a little more information on the <a href="http://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2010/dec/22/security/">admin information leakage vulnerability</a>, which was patched last week.

1) django-concurrent-server

This multi-threaded development server allows you to test your code in a more realistic concurrent environment, rather than the single-threaded default development server. As a pleasant side effect, it speeds up your development process by allowing multiple media items to load and AJAX calls to take place simultaneously.

2) django-completion

django-completion provides autocompletion for Django models, and includes database, Solr and Redis backends.

3) django-tasks

"django-tasks is an asynchronous task management daemon, to execute long-running batch tasks (minutes, hours or even days) on a Django server."

If you have any feedback, news to share, or found some great code which you want to spread the word about, please get in touch. I'll credit any submissions. You can also find me on Twitter as @jon_atkinson and @djangoweekly.