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Django Week in Review, Dec 10 - Dec 16, 2007

The obvious big news this week is that the Django Book is selling and the full text was announced available for viewing at djangobook.com.

Mailing List Highlights

Performance of a Django website: An interesting discussion on how to profile a Django website with some background information on Apache processes with mod_python.

Models over SQL views - disable regeneration of model: A discussion on disabling SQL generation when running syncdb.

Is 'LIMIT 0' a valid query?: And whether COUNT(*) or COUNT(1) is optimal for various databases.

Putting django on Amazon DB: An idea to write a Django ORM backend to interface with Amazon's newly released SimpleDB was discussed.

Changeset Highlights

A prior changeset 6838 was marked as an backwards incompatible change: MultipleObjectsReturned exception instead of AssertionError

Changeset 6915 introduces another backwards incompatible change that changes ModelForm's init signature to match Form's.

Changeset 6912 makes AnonymousUser's is_active property False by default.

Trac digest

55 new tickets. 29 closed tickets. 173 ticket updates. 17 changesets. 60 patches submitted. 18 wiki updates.

Talking About Django

Django Podcast: Michael Trier is experimenting with a Django podcast. Check out what he has so far.

Mathematical Captcha: Dima Dogadaylo shows how he added a math based Captcha to his blog.

Looking Forward: Upcoming Django Developments Worth Waiting For: Eric Florenzano discusses some current developments and looking forward to a future Django.

The B-List: Speaking and writing: James Bennett shares plans of his upcoming PyCon talk and also a new book from Apress titled, "Practical Django Projects."

In other news, a new Django newsgroup was started to discuss and promote django news, of which the topics of this newsletter will be discussed. If you'd like to join visit the Django Newsroom Group.

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