1) Django 1.3 release schedule - Update 2

Russell Keith-Magee has posted this welcome update on the status of Django 1.3, including the link to the <a href="http://code.djangoproject.com/query?status=new&status=assigned&status=reopened&keywords=~blocker">list of blockers</a> for this release.

2) Official Django Project Twitter account

There is now an official @djangoproject Twitter account. Not much else to say on that.

3) Gondor.io unveiled

Eldarion have introduced Gondor.io, another Heroku-alike for Django sites. There's more information in their <a href="http://gondor.io/blog/2011/01/03/hello-gondor/">blog post</a>. I can't wait for all these services to come out of private beta, 2011 is going to be a great year for Django infrastructure.

4) South, Explained

PK Shiu de-mystifies some of the behind-the-scenes workings of South, the database migration tool.

5) Django Application Conventions

A handy summary of the naming and packaging conventions for Django applications. A lot of developers will already know these, but this is a great reference.

6) PyPy builds on Launchpad

There's a lot of talk around at the moment about the progress of <a href="http://pypy.org/">PyPy</a>, and now you can use this PPA to test nightly/weekly builds of PyPy on the four most recent Ubuntu releases.

7) Django and Bleach

This quick walkthrough from Andy McKay demonstrates using James Socol's Bleach HTML sanitiser to clean form input.

1) django-uni-form

"Django forms are easily rendered as tables, paragraphs, and unordered lists. However, elegantly rendered div based forms is something you have to do by hand. The purpose of this application is to provide a simple tag and/or filter that lets you quickly render forms in a div format."

2) django-gmapsfield

There are a lots of Django Google Maps widgets out there, and this is a modern implementation which provides a field type, widgets and template tags for dealing with Google Maps.

3) HamlPy

"HamlPy is a tool for Django developers who want to use a <a href="http://haml-lang.com/">Haml</a> like syntax for their templates. HamlPy is not a template engine in itself but simply a compiler which will convert HamlPy files into templates that Django can understand."

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.