3 videos · 3 events · 2023–2026 · 1h 23m of video
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DjangoCon US 2026 · October 26, 2026
I'm the lead developer at a company with about 10 Django applications. The biggest is a 19-year-old legacy application that's been ported from ColdFusion to WordPress to a custom PHP system to Django. It's full of boolean fields that should be foreign keys, invariants that…
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DjangoCon US 2024 · December 6, 2024
Django forms serve both as a validation and data-sanitisation layer and as a presentation layer, which explains their complexity. Josh Thomas outlines a practical progression for modern forms: use native HTML input types and CSS capabilities, customise field and form rendering with `as_field_group` and form…
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DjangoCon US 2023 · December 14, 2023
Django model managers provide the interface for table-level database operations, while model methods work on individual instances. Josh Thomas explains when to use custom managers versus chainable custom QuerySets: in his preferred rule of thumb, QuerySets handle read operations and managers handle creation, updates, and…