By : Shabda Raaj

Two scoops of Django is the new book on Django best practices by Daniel Greenfeld and Audrey Roy. I just finished reading it and found it extremely useful.

The book is a collection of tips, their justification and code organized in logical areas. I have been using Django since 2008, but I still found a few tips which were new to me and many which served as good reminder. At about 200 pages, its comprehensive but not overwhelming. If you are an advanced Djangonaut, you can read it in a weekend (And you probably are using all its recommendations anyway ...

By : Thejaswi Puthraya

We are conducting an "Introduction to Python" workshop at our office on February 15th, 2013 (Friday) between 5-8PM IST. This workshop is geared towards those who are planning to learn python.

Topics:

• Language features
• Variables
• Built in data structures
• Functions
• Object Oriented Programming
• Demo writing a simple program

Prerequisites to attend this session:

• A laptop with any linux flavour (OR) a laptop with Python installed in it.

Register for the workshop by filling up the form.

By : Shabda Raaj

Parsleyjs is a JavaScript library to do client side data validations. It does this in a non-intrusive way via adding a data-* attributes to form fields. Check it out, it's really slick.

Django forms do a great job of server side data validations. By integrating Parsley with Django form, you get good client side data validations as well. Get the app here.

Some design considerations

When I started writing this app I wanted to make it really easy to use. My first thought was to make this a filter or a template tag which would have allowed you to ...