Django Weekly - Issue #9 - 24/02/2011

News and Articles

1) Disqus: Scaling The World’s Largest Django Application

This is a great presentation and set of slides from DjangoCon, covering the strategies Disqus have used to scale to 125million uniques a month. Great stuff.

2) Django 1.3 patterns for older Django versions

"The Django 1.3 niceties, only for 1.3? :-)"

3) Using the Django ORM as a standalone component

In which James Stewart discusses using the ORM without the rest of Django.

4) Connecting anything to anything with Django

This post from Charles Leifer introduces <a href="https://github.com/coleifer/django-generic-m2m"django-generic-m2m</a>, a flexible way to relate content.


Code

1) django-form-scaffold

"django-form-scaffold is a package of helper functions for generating Django template code with markup from Django form instances."

2) django-rules

"django-rules is a Django authorization backend that offers a unified, per-object authorization management. It is quite different from other authorization backends in the way it lets you flexibly manage per-object permissions."


Jobs

1) Kontagent (San Francisco and Toronto)

Kontagent is a leading analytics platform for social application developers. We are using Django and Python extensively and are looking to fill a variety of front- and back-end positions in San Francisco and Toronto offices.

2) Xcite Digital (Farnham, UK)

We're looking for talented Django Developers to fill out a development team, to work in an exciting and fast-paced digital agency, working with a wide variety of clients - big and small. Junior applicants are also welcome to apply! (Must be able to commute to Farnham, UK)


Get in touch

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