DjangoCon US 2011

• Keynotes
  • David Eaves
  • Russell Keith-Magee
  • Idan Gazit
  • Glyph Lefkowitz
• Read the Docs
  • Intro
  • Things you can do
  • CNAME support
  • Architecture
  • Open source!
  • Hoping it makes people write more docs
  • Lessons Learned
  • Sponsors
  • Questions
  • Mirror your project in your test layouts
• Testing: The Developer Strikes Back
  • Hard to do it right
  • What is unit testing
  • Mirror your project in your test layouts
  • Use ObjectCreator classes for mocks instead of fixtures
  • Beyond the business logic
  • Dealing with cache
  • Writing tests can improve coding tests
  • What about T.D.D.?
  • Options to get people to test
  • Junction between unit and integration
  • Testing a virgin codebase: 0-100%
  • Graceful code degratation
  • Test Infrastructure
  • Useful tools
  • How to sell testing at your Django shop
  • Questions
• Fireside Chat with a BDFL
  • How did Django get started?
  • Why did Django get traction and other light Python frameworks didn’t?
  • How has Django’s community and structure has changed?
  • What about Django 2.0?
  • Wishlist?
  • How can Django can become a better part of the Python community?
  • In your role as BDFL have you had to go against the community?
  • How have things changed for the Django community since the last hate talk?
• Real World Deployment using Chef
  • Who is here
  • How and why
  • About chef
  • Python cookbook
  • Case Studies - Packaginator
• Making the Django ORM Multilingual
  • What this is all about
  • Que?
  • What does he want
  • State of now
  • Approaches
  • Single Table Approach
  • Dictionary Table Approach
  • Two Table Approach
  • Common problems
  • Summary: The Situation
• Why the Django Documentation Sucks
  • Rambles
  • Use cases
  • Images and pictures!
  • No jokes?
  • Problem: overview
  • Problem: Tutorial
  • Problem: SEO optimization
  • Problem: People might get smug about Django docs
  • Solutions
• Best Practices for Front-End Django Developers
  • Presentation is important
  • Start Organized
  • Cascading Style Sheets
  • JavaScript
  • Don’t do HTML from scratch: Use html5boilerplate
  • Sass/Compass instead of CSS
  • All about the data
  • Define you datatypes
  • Tests
  • Performance
  • Documentation
  • Wrap Up
• Security
  • SSL - safe and secure
  • Don’t put your database in your github repo
• Scraping the Web
  • Content is what you need
  • lxml
  • lxml: cssselect
  • cssselect
  • iterlinks
  • sourceline
  • find,findall
  • nodes of content
  • Web pages change
  • forms
  • text, text_content, iter_text
  • Tips for maintainable scrapers
  • XPATH fundamentals
  • Building LXML w/LXML
  • Tweepy Innards
  • Other tools
  • Don’t forget
  • Read up on these!
• Cache rules everything around me
  • Intro to caching
  • Big Picture
  • How to avoid Cache Invalidation Hell
  • Third Party tools
  • Last minute Advice
• Django Core Dev Panel
  • What about App Refactor?
  • New community roles
  • How about Django on other interpreters?
  • Talking on django-dev
  • Code of conducts
  • How can the Django third-party ecosphere be managed?
• sprints kickoff

General Notes

• slides: http://lanyrd.com/2011/djangocon-us/coverage/

• Remember that I’m engaged to Audrey Roy.

• Flew up on the PyLadies Party Plane on September 4th on just 90 minutes of sleep.

• Taught the Ultimate DjangoCon Tutorial Workshop. Thoughts:

  • Not having enough time to QA the content

    • Having errors in your slide code can be good
    • the class pulled together and we debugged as a team.
    • Maybe do this on purpose in the future

  • Mentors rock

  • The existing tutorial teaches some anti-patterns. :(

  • I think there was no confusion until the very end. Which is really good!

  • Next time I will do better