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We appreciate all the submissions to the Win Cool Stuff Contest. All valid submissions will be recognized on future episodes. Our winners will have the option of appearing on the show to discuss their winning submission.

In true Django fashion I created a Django application that was used to draw the winners. You can watch the screencast here:

Watch the winners drawn live

The winners are:

• The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right – Congratulations to Francis Cleary for his submission “Multiple view prefixes”.

• Django T-Shirt – Congratulations to Paul Kenjora for his submission “Adding Custom Actions To Django Admin Change Forms”.

Special thanks go to Apress and Eminent Consulting Group for donating the prizes.

Just a friendly reminder that the Win Cool Stuff Contest will be ending shortly. If you wanted to submit something but haven’t be sure to get it in shortly. There haven’t been a lot of submissions so your chances of winning are pretty good.

This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.

This week we are privileged to have Malcolm Tredinnick, Django core developer, on the show to talk to us about working on Django, the Queryset Refactor branch, and some of his writing. We also discuss a few source commits, some cool projects from the community, and the Win Cool Stuff Contest.

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Show Notes

Django Interview – Malcolm Tredinnick (0:34)

• Malcolm Tredinnick on Django People.
• Defying Classification Blog – Be sure to put Malcolm’s blog in your feed reader. Lots of excellent insight and humorous writing.

• Gnome Project
• Simon Willison’s Weblog

• Distributed Version Control Systems
  • Git Distributed Version Control
  • Mercurial Distributed Version Control
  • Koz Speaks On Git

• Queryset Refactor Branch
  • GeoDjango Branch
  • Defer Ticket (5420) – allows deferring the loading of data on expensive fields.
  • SqlAlchemy – Python ORM.

• Speaking and Writing
  • Preparing For The Next Django Sprint – excellent post describing how best to prepare for a Django sprint.
  • linux.conf.au – annual linux conference in Australia.
  • Malcolm’s Slides from LCA Presentations

Tracking Trunk (39:53)

• Decorators take the name, attributes, and docstring of the function they decorate (7153) – Note, this change is backwards incompatible if, for some reason, you were relying on the name of a Django decorator instead of the function it decorates.
• Lazy related objects supported (7158) – Now, in addition to ForeignKey("Model") you can also say ForeignKey("app.Model"). This means that cross-app recursive relations now work.
• sys.exit() will no longer get swallow by http handler (7168) – a sys.exit() in the view code will now actually exit by raising. Allow customization of language cookie name (7185) – Adds new setting LANGUAGE_COOKIE_NAME that is the name of the cookie to use for the language cookie. This can be whatever you want (but should be different from SESSION_COOKIE_NAME).
• Custom labels for choices in ModelChoiceField (4620)

Community Catchup (54:33)

• Win Cool Stuff Contest – Submit a Tip of the Week or an IRC Ad Nauseam item, including question and answer and we will enter your name into our drawing to win one of our two cool prizes. See the post for full details:
  • The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right. The “Django Book”. A must read for every Django developer. Graciously provided by Apress.
  • Django T-Shirt – a very cool t-shirt with the Django logo on it. Provided by Eminent Consulting Group.

• Why ‘Where Everyone Goes’ Crashed – very interesting post about scaling a large Django site.
  • MintCache Snippet
• Managers Versus Class Methods – another great post by James Bennett. Wondering which to use, read on.
• pownce-jabber-bot a cool project by Jannis Leidel that implements a jabber bot for pownce implemented as a Django app. Discussed in this blog post

Thank You! (1:06:38)

On This Week in Django this week (to be released shortly) we discussed the Win Cool Stuff Contest. I’m breaking this out here so that people who do not follow the podcast have an opportunity to know about the contest.

How It Works

Submit a Tip of the Week or an IRC Ad Nauseam item. If you’re unfamiliar with either of these then please listen to past episodes of This Week in Django. Submissions must contain the following:

• Including question and answer, or in the case of Tip of the Week, the actual tip.
• Include a paragraph or two and relevant code samples. Look at past Tip of the Week or IRC Ad Nauseam items for examples.
• Must not be items already include on the Django FAQ, the Django IRC FAQ, or something we’ve included in past shows (yes, you’re helping us come up with new material).
• Your submission constitutes permission for us to use the content in future podcasts. We will give you credit, so no worries.
• You can enter multiple times, but each submission must be different.
• All submissions must be received by 10:00:00 p.m. GMT Friday March 7, 2008 (5PM EST).
• Remember to include your name and email address. If you would like us to mention it, also include your Blog and/or Django People URL.
• Send all submissions to feedback __at__ thisweekindjango.com.

Prizes

All valid submissions are eligible to win. We will draw two winners. No substitutes (if you have the book or the shirt give it to your neighbor.) The following items have been generously donated to the show.

• The Definitive Guide to Django: Web Development Done Right. The “Django Book”. A must read for every Django developer. Graciously provided by Apress.

• Django T-Shirt – a very cool t-shirt with the Django logo on it. Provided by Eminent Consulting Group.

Winners

We will announce the winners on this blog and on next week’s show. If you can work around our schedule you can discuss your item on the show. If not and you have the opportunity to prerecord your item, we will include it in the podcast. If you are a winner we will cover this with you further.