Alex Gaynor I've spent this past summer away from Django, working for Quora, venturing into the depths of a foreign codebase, and making it faster by running on PyPy. This talk will feature the lessons I've learned about Django, PyPy, and web development in general.
Carl Meyer Dependency management sucks. Pip provides some options for making it suck a bit less, but not all of them are immediately obvious. This talk will cover a number of strategies for making your deployments faster and more reliable, and demonstrate how to implement them in practice.
Five minute talks on any topic with a hard time limit and no Q&A.
James Tauber The Pinax platform has had its ups and downs since it was launched in 2008. People either love it or just don't get it. About the only thing everyone agrees on is that it doesn't seem to be progressing as fast as it once did. This talk will take a fresh look at the goals of Pinax, what we did well, what we didn't do so well and what we're (slowly) doing to fix it.
Sandy “Code not tested is broken by design” - Jacob Kaplan-Moss Every programming project has unique testing needs. It’s not always easy to understand what those needs are, or how to write tests that satisfy them. One of our goals as developers is to write tests that minimize failures in production that can cost our companies time, money, resources, and in many cases, hours of sleep!
Five minute talks on any topic with a hard time limit and no Q&A.
Jacob Burch, Noah Silas This talk aims to briefly introduce the core concepts of caching and covers the best practices of using Django’s cache backend.
Zain Memon When tasked with displaying geo-data, most developers decide to put some big red markers on an embeddable Google Map and call it a day. If you're interested in creating maps that are more beautiful, more interactive, and more usable, this talk is for you.
Katharine Jarmul Love or hate them, the top python scraping libraries have some hidden gems and tricks that you can use to enhance, update and diversify your Django models. This talk will teach you more advanced techniques to aggregate content from RSS feeds, Twitter, Tumblr and normal old web sites for your Django projects.
