DjangoConAU 2013

Speakers

• Jacob Kaplan-Moss @jacobian Porting Django apps to Python 3

  Django 1.5 now supports Python 3, so now's the time to start thinking about porting your apps and sites. Come see how! I'll talk about the porting techniques that work, and present two case studies: porting a site, and porting a reusable app.

• Greg Turner @gsta Using FeinCMS to add content tools to any Django model

  Site editors often struggle with editing rich content and managing variations in layout in Django admin. By rich content we mean text, images, video, tables, and so on. Trying to squeeze all this content into a single rich-text editor is like trying to jam a magical pony into a dog kennel. A better approach is to use a rich content framework like FeinCMS.

• Simon Meers @drmeers Django Unstrained

  A compilation of outstanding tips, tricks and tools for meeting perfectionist's deadlines with even greater elegance and efficiency.

• Russell Keith-Magee @freakboy3742 Secrets of the testing masters

  Django ship with a wide range of tools to help you test your web application, but some of the best tools for testing Django don't come in the box. In this talk, you'll get a brief introduction to two of those tools - Mock and Factory Boy - showing when they should be used, and some practical examples of their usage in a Django test suite.

• Tom Eastman @tveastman The Server Side: The coolest parts of backend development with Django

  Make the system lightning fast and infinitely scalable; ensure its absolute security and impregnability; and guarantee its absolute correctness, stability, and general perfection in the face of all input at all times.

• Curtis Maloney funkybob A state of REST

  In the Django world there are currently two major REST API libraries, with a new one starting to take hold. But how do you choose? In this talk I plan to give details on how these three apps (TastyPie, Django REST Framework, and django-nap) differ, as well as overlap.