Django Weekly: #66: DjangoCon Japan, 2.0 Tutorial for Beginners, Kubernetes, Conditional aggregation and more

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DjangoCon JP 2018 starts May 19th! Submit your talks until March 12th. Hosted at Cybozu in Tokyo.

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Twitter handle to follow for django tips and tricks.

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Embed docs directly on your website with a few lines of code. Test the API for free.

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Lets look through rendering our templates to a PDF. Not just some fixed values lets build a report pulling through some data from a database, and then send said PDF as an attachment to a user.

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Managing hackers applications is probably the worst nightmare hackathon organizers have. For this reason, after struggling with applications during HackUPC Fall 2016, I decided to use my knowledge to build a tool to make it easier: HackAssistant. Now it’s deployed for HackCU at my.hackcu.org.

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This section focuses on implementing the kubernetes hello-minikube tutorial adapted to a conventional Django application. The codebase for this tutorial can be cloned from my github repo and we will be working with the getting-started branch. The kubernetes version for this tutorial is assumed to be 1.9.

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Here’s a simple setup for creating a React-Django project. With just a few tweaks, you can swap out React for Angular or Vue.js and everything would work fine.

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The DSF membership elected a new board last month. The six elected directors of the DSF for 2018.

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Chrome introduced headless mode in v59 opening the possibility of using Chrome as a fast and elegant way of generating PDF data or PNG screenshots programatically via HTML. django-hardcopy is an alternative to other projects which leverage wkhtmltopdf, a great tool but one that lacks the portability, ease of installation, the performance, and reliability of Chrome.

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A Django ImageField that offers progressive image loading during HTML rendering.

Django database introspection tool, through the data table name can dynamically create a Django models ready-to-use objects. Just need a table name, you can immediately get a usable Django model, and immediately query, update and other operations, out of the box. The current version does not support foreign key relationships.

repo for the Python / HTML / CSS / JavaScript / Django Full Stack course starting 1/16/2018