Dr. Russell Keith-Magee

Recent talks

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How to turn your Website into an App (and why maybe you shouldn't!) with Russell Keith Magee

DjangoCon US 2022 · November 24, 2022

Russell Keith-Magee argues that a website should not automatically become an app: websites are easier to deploy, deep-link, update, and distribute, while native apps are justified when they need offline operation, local or sensitive data, deep device integration, hardware access, or intensive computation. For Django…

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C is for Cookie 🍪 - Russell Keith-Magee

DjangoCon Europe 2020 · October 15, 2020

Cookies add state to the web’s fundamentally stateless request model: a server sends a token in a `Set-Cookie` response header, and the browser returns it in later requests. Russell Keith-Magee explains cookie scope, expiry, `Secure`, `HttpOnly`, `SameSite`, signing, and Django’s cookie APIs, stressing that cookie…

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Lightning Talks Day 2

DjangoCon US 2019 · October 18, 2019

The speakers showed practical ways to extend Django and Python: tracking leaked paid data with event logging and user-specific watermarks, testing JavaScript interfaces with Selenium, and using cached properties to avoid repeated work and database queries. They introduced CodeRed CMS as a ready-to-use Wagtail-based alternative…

Has appeared with

• Kojo Idrissa × 2
• Trey Hunner × 2
• Adam Fast
• Adem Gaygusuz
• Adrienne Lowe
• Andrew Godwin
• Andrew Pinkham
• Armin Ronacher
• Brad Martsberger
• Brendan Sterne
• Caleb Collins-Parks
• Dane Hillard

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