As previously announced, today marks the release of Django 1.2.1, the first bugfix release in the Django 1.2 series -- free software high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.

I’ve recently started learning Django for doing web development, so as part of that, I needed to also learn how to set up Django within mod_python so I could deploy my new Django applications on my server.

"Jacob Kaplan-Moss, one of Django's lead developers, will give a whirlwind tour of advanced Django tips and tricks. The focus will be on the techniques you'll need to develop mature Django applications. We'll discuss the kinds of issues that arise as applications increase in scope and scale, and look at common problems in large Django projects and how to solve them..."

"As part of the Django 1.2 release process, tonight we've released Django 1.2 beta 1, a preview/testing package that gives a little taste of some of the new features coming in Django 1.2.

"Someone asked me recently what I thought about about Django. I really like it, but I didn’t have an answer ready and completely bombed at answering that question. I ended up muttering a very profound, “Django is cool”. I truthfully stumbled upon Django, played with it a while, and spent the next 10 months writing a web app.

"...Python's equivalent to the famous Ruby on rails, Django lets you build high-performing, elegant Web applications quickly. Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the "Don't Repeat Yourself" (DRY) principle..."

"I keep a Emacs mode for editing Django templates (specifically HTML Django templates) on Launchpad. There are more people interested in enhancing the support for Django on Emacs, and I'd like to help. But first, I want to discuss what is needed from a editing mode..."

"Did you ever need to display the SQL that Django is generating, within your shell? I was playing around with a problem, which I’ll write more about later, and I needed this exact functionality to help me learn how various options in the Django ORM were being translated into SQL..."

"A short while ago, we announced the creation of the Django Software Foundation, a non-profit organization that exists (among other reasons) to sponsor Django coding sprints and other events for our community.