DjangoCon Europe 2012

• Keynotes
  • Jacob Kaplan-Moss
  • Karen Tracey - Django and the Community
  • Jessica McKellar
• 10 Steps to better postgresql performance
  • PostgreSQL features
  • PostgreSQL negatives
  • Configuration
  • Easy performance boosts
  • On-going maintenance
• Round pegs for square holes - using mongoDB with Django
  • MongoDB
  • Many options
  • Conclusions and further thoughts
• Square pegs and round holes - Django and MongoDB
  • BY DANIEL GREENFELD AND AUDREY ROY
  • What is MongoDB?
  • Analogies
  • Connectors
  • PyMongo
  • Mongoengine
  • MongoKit
  • Django non-rel + monogdbengine
  • Summary
  • Thoughts: Danny
  • Thoughts: Audrey
  • Using Django with Mongo
  • Django mongonaut
  • Summary
• Class-based Generic Views: patterns and anti-patterns
  • Controversy
  • What are views in Django?
  • Deprecation
  • Pre Django-1.3 Django CBVs
  • CBV API
  • Declarative vs Imperative
  • Usage Tips for Django CBVs
  • Case Studies
  • Shooting yourself in the foot
• Django and the Real-Time Web
  • WWW: Changelog
  • Can’t miss this opportunity
  • Zachary’s definition of Real-Time
  • Stories
  • Caching
  • Implications
• Building secure Django websites
  • Three Areas
  • How cookies and sessions work
  • XSS Injection
  • Reflected vs. Stored XSS
  • Cookie security
  • Server side injections
  • Trusting the Browser
  • Be careful with ModelForms
  • Passwords and SSL
  • Clickjacking and Django
  • Backups
  • Introducing PLY
• Implementing DSLs in Django Apps
  • Initial Motivation: Searching Contacts
  • Other reasons
  • Not for the end user
  • How to make a DSL in Python/Django
  • Sample
  • Parser - The Grammar
  • Parser in PLY
• I hate your database
  • Hate? Databases?
  • Different Databases, different occasions
  • Some quick theory
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • PostgreSQL
  • MongoDB
  • Key/value stores
  • Spatial databases
  • Filesystems
  • Graph Databases
  • Round-Robin Database
  • Summary
• LFS - Lightning Fast Shop
  • LF = Lightning Fast WTF?
  • Numbers & Facts
  • Samples
  • Features
  • Properties
  • Accessories
  • Variable Payment Methods
  • Development
• Using CSS preprocessors effectively
  • Don’t make a mess
  • Issues with CSS
  • Solution: CSS Preprocessors
  • Common Features
  • Doing it with Django
  • Tools
  • Warning
  • Conclusion
• Arkestra: semantic information publishing for organizations
  • What typically happens when working with a CMS
  • His idea
  • Informtation, not just data
  • Organization
  • Don’t waste people’s time
  • Django-CMS and Arkestra
  • The Semantic Presentation Editor
• Django Chuck - Your powerful project punch button
  • Why the name Chuck?
  • Use case for django-chuck
  • Why not Pinax?
  • Installation
  • Example usage
  • What happened?
  • Setup an existing project from source
• It’s about time
  • RFC 3339
  • aware vs naive datetimes
  • DST transitions
  • dates and datetimes
  • Django >= 1.4
  • default and current time zones
  • auto-conversions
  • Utilities
  • limitations in Django 1.4
  • Key learnings
• Healthy Webapps Through Continuous Introspection
  • Case study: Wasted cycles on Bitbucket
  • Common problems
  • Dogslow
  • django-geordi
  • interruptingcow
• Adding tests to an uncovered application
  • Instagram started as burbn
  • When to automate testing?
• Implementing real time web apps with Django
  • Why real time?
  • Finding the right tool
  • The tools you want
  • Why not implement it in Python?
  • Using redis for cross-language communications
  • Basic Concept
  • Hosting socket.io
  • Using this today?
  • Client Authentication
• How Heroku Uses Heroku To Build Heroku
  • What is Heroku?
  • Philosophies
  • Environmental Parity
  • More philosophies in use by Heroku
  • Specifics
  • Focus on Quality
• Involving women in the community
  • New Developer
  • Opened the floor to questions and discussion
• Flasky Goodness (or Why Django Sucks?)
  • Hos Open Source work
  • Open Source All The Things!
  • Let’s build something
  • Django Application
  • Single Codebases are great
  • Single codebases are EVIL!
  • CONSTRAINTS FOSTER CREATIVITY
  • Build for services
  • Django: For API Services
  • Django: For API Consumer
  • Enter Flask
  • Flask Familiarities
  • Flask Differences
  • Flask Improvements
  • Popular Flask Extensions
  • Services are agnostic

General Notes

• Location: Zurich, Switzerland