DjangoCon US 2008
2008-09-06
Mountain View, United States
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who it's for
Django developers, python web developers, web operations engineers, reusable app authors, technical leads
topics
GeoDjango with PostGIS; OpenLayers admin map editor; Django on Jython (zxJDBC); ORM internals and query.py; select_related and query optimization; mod_wsgi memory and throughput; cProfile and DB query profiling; memcached and object caching; multiple database support design; schema evolution and migrations; admin custom widgets (newforms-admin); reusable apps and Pinax
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Chairman Opening Keynote | Robert Lofthouse, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Leslie Hawthorn | 03m |
Organizers announce a requirement that contributors sign a contributor license agreement (modeled on Apache/Python CLAs), point to an FAQ and multiple… | ||
| Code Writing and Design | Malcolm Tredinnick | 44m |
About 6,000 ticket reviews reveal recurring mistakes and the fixes that actually stick: always include a minimal failing test (tests take 35–60 minutes… | ||
| Django on Jython | Jim Baker, Leo Soto | 45m |
Google Summer of Code project ports Django to Jython and ships a Jython 2.5 Alpha 2 installer while running the CPython regression suite with 99.4% pass (about… | ||
| GeoDjango | Justin Bronn | 54m |
GeoDango is a Django extension that adds PostGIS‑backed geometry fields, a geom manager with spatial lookups (contains, intersects, distance, union, simplify… | ||
| High Performance Django | David Cramer | 31m |
Built a stack that handles ~15 million pages/day with 12 web servers and Squid doing 2–4k requests/sec while Django servers handle ~200; switching to mod_wsgi… | ||
| Inside the ORM | Malcolm Tredinnick | 01h 04m |
Claim: the ORM query layer was rewritten three times and the final code ships in Django 1.0. It actually builds a Pythonic query.py/query class that… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Adrian Holovaty & Jacob Kaplan-Moss | Adrian Holovaty, Jacob Kaplan-Moss | 55m |
Roadmap items focus on concrete fixes and features: add multiple database support with a settled API, bulk edit/delete and pluggable widgets in the admin… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson | Cal Henderson | 01h 03m |
Built the original Flickr and runs a site serving 2.8 billion photos at peaks of 35,000 photos/second, argues Django is great for getting started but missing… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Guido van Rossum | Guido van Rossum | 58m |
Google App Engine runs HTTP-driven web apps on Google hardware with a free tier and hard limits: 1 megabyte limit per request/item, 10 seconds per request with… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Mark Ramm | Mark Ramm | 51m |
Argues that Django’s codebase is effectively monolithic and tightly coupled, which leads to Django is monolithic fragmentation from the wider Python web… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Keynote Questions: State of Django | Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty | 12m |
Thanks to contributors; Rails-style instant-feedback influenced the project. Marty's file storage abstraction exists and can be split out but core team likely… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Lightning Talks | Various speakers | 56m |
A rapid roll of short demos and small projects: a community Django Pluggables repo for reusable apps (backend done in 3 days, needs claim/owner and… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Panel: Django in Journalism | Adrian Holovaty, Matt Waite, Maura Chace, Matt Croydon, Ben Welsh | 54m |
Journalism teams report shipping projects in hours not months: a four-hour GeoDjango map for evacuation shelters, PolitiFact and neighborhood real‑estate apps… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Panel: Django Success Stories | Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Matt Croydon, Michael Greer, Joshua "jag" Ginsberg, Leah Culver, Andy McCurdy, Jason Yan | 56m |
Multiple companies describe switching from PHP to Django to rebuild news, social and gaming sites (Decider, Pownce, GiantBomb, ComicVine, Discuss) and internal… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Panel: Django Technical Design | Michael Trier, Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Adrian Holovaty, Simon Willison, James Bennett, Malcolm Tredinnick | 39m |
Panelists debate adding features to core versus contrib, report a refactored OpenID integration that explores class-based generic views, and admit the… | ||
| DjangoCon 2008 Panel: Schema Evolution | Michael Trier, Simon Willison, Russell Keith-Magee, Andrew Godwin | 57m |
Three different migration systems get shown: Demigrations stores raw SQL files with up/down methods, runs manage.py demigrate up/down, and the team reports 14… | ||
| Pinax | James Tauber | 01h 01m |
Pinax claims to cut time from idea to site by packaging reusable Django apps and a starter scaffold. It ships concrete apps like django-notification… | ||
| Reusable Apps | James Bennett | 01h 00m |
Argues that reusable Django apps win by being small and focused: do one thing and split features into separate apps (example: a simple user registration app… | ||
| ReviewBoard | Christian Hammond, David Trowbridge | 29m |
A Django-based code review app called Review Board runs at VMware with about 80% of engineering using it and has accepted patches from 74 contributors. It… | ||
| Satchmo | Chris Moffitt, Bruce Kroeze | 45m |
Django-based Satchmo is an extensible e‑commerce framework with about 600 users and roughly 9 production sites that now runs on Django 1.0. It provides a live… | ||
| TWID Live | Michael Trier, Brian Rosner | 45m |
Rapid-fire status update on Django ecosystem: GeoDjango merged before 1.0 and extends spatial features; pluggable file storage simple API makes upgrades… | ||
| What's New in Newforms-Admin? | Brian Rosner | 36m |
Refactors Django admin to use newforms: admin configuration moves out of models into an admin.py module, ModelAdmin and InlineModelAdmin classes replace inner… | ||
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