Track exceptions as they happen and diagnose them without user assistance.

This is a wrapper around web-server specific methods for sending files to web clients. This is useful when Django needs to check permissions associated files, but does not want to serve the actual bytes of the file itself. i.e. as serving large files is not what Django is made for.

Hyde is a static website generator powered by Python & Django. Hyde supports all the Django template tags & filters and even has a few of its own. The built-in web server + auto-generator provide instant refresh and unlimited flexibility.

The purpose of the post is to explain what actually happens when you use the Django development server as far as the setup of critical parts of the process environment, and compare that to what happens if you use the Django WSGI interface in the manner as described in the Django documentation. From that I will describe an alternate way of setting up and configuring Django for use with the supplied WGSI interface so as to better replicate how things are done within the Django development server.

XHTML2PDF is a converter for HTML/XHTML and CSS to PDF and a Python package.

Django’s url dispatcher doesn’t handle subdomains.  If you want/need to use subdomains you’ve got to use session middleware.

Gunicorn 'Green Unicorn' is a Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX. It's a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. The Gunicorn server is broadly compatible with various web frameworks, simply implemented, light on server resources, and fairly speedy.

Django Packages is a directory of reusable apps, sites, tools, and more for your Django projects.

A comparison of various Django-based wiki applications and projects.

RabbitMQ is an open source AMQP (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) implementation. Celery, originally built for use with Django, is now a general, distributed task queue system based on AMPQ server, multiprocessing Python module and a persistent or non-persistent storage backend. Combining these three solves the problem of building highly-available task queues.

Celery is really focused on being a distributed task queue, but it can also be a great scheduler.

MongoEngine is an Object-Document Mapper, written in Python for working with MongoDB.

Sentry provides you with a generic interface to view and interact with your error logs. By default, it will catch any exception thrown by Django and store it in a database. With this it allows you to interact and view near real-time information to discover issues and more easily trace them in your application.

django-treebeard is a library that implements efficient tree implementations for the Django Web Framework 1.0+. It includes 3 different tree implementations: Adjacency List, Materialized Path and Nested Sets.

An easy way of making inlines orderable using drag-and-drop, using jQuery UI's sortable() plugin.

You'll want to use the cookies plugin (if of course you are using some sort of session-based authentication [like django.contrib.auth, and care who uploaded what).

The cookies plugin sends the data from cookies as POST, so you'll have to find some way of getting this back into request.COOKIES (process_request middleware that looks for a settings.SESSION_COOKIE_NAME in request.POST on specific URLs and dumps it into request.COOKIES works nicely for this :)

This is a very plain and simple Django app that runs all the demos for swfupload.

Using the SWFUpload cookies plugin and a little bit of Django middleware, we can smoothly integrate SWFUpload with Django and provide a better uploading experience for our users.

This is a repository for collecting global custom management extensions for the Django Framework.

Creates a GraphViz dot file for the specified app names. You can pass multiple app names and they will all be combined into a single model. Output is usually directed to a dot file.

dajax is a powerfull tool to easily and super-fastly develop asynchronous presentation logic in web applications using python and almost no lines of JS source code.

It allows you to run a command, python manage.py rundevserver, and to get some additional information. As of writing, that additional information includes real-time SQL logging (aka mass query spam in your terminal), and a summary of cache calls.

DjangoVoice is a very simple application to enable user feedback that is integrated with your Django project.

Freshen is an acceptance testing framework for Python.

This library contains various fixes and support/integration for various 3rd party tools that make developers live easier.

A framework for performing and analyzing split-test experiments in Django applications.

Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework. By integrating numerous reusable Django apps to take care of the things that many sites have in common, it lets you focus on what makes your site different.

After you’ve gotten all of this set up the first time it will start saving you time every time you deploy. It also prevents stupid mistakes like FTP’ing your files to the wrong directory on the server. It frees you from those headaches and lets you concentrate on the real work to be done instead of the busywork.

This particular fabric file makes setting up and deploying a django application much easier, but it does make a few assumptions. Namely that you’re using Git, Apache and mod_wsgi and your using Debian or Ubuntu.

Fabric is a Python library and command-line tool designed to streamline deploying applications or performing system administration tasks via the SSH protocol. It provides tools for running arbitrary shell commands (either as a normal login user, or via sudo), uploading and downloading files, and so forth.

A mini-framework for Django for creating RESTful APIs.

Haystack provides modular search for Django. It features a unified, familiar API that allows you to plug in different search backends (such as Solr, Whoosh, etc.) without having to modify your code.

It’s an exceedingly civilized way to develop an app.

Implementing rev=canonical short URLs in Django.

I tend to run a stripped down Apache with mod_wsgi behind an nginx proxy, and have nginx serve static files directly. This avoids the need for a completely separate media server (although a separate media domain is still a good idea for better client-side performance).

Deploying Django with Apache and mod_wsgi is the recommended way to get Django into production.

Intelligent schema migrations for Django apps.

Provides a trivial wrapper for Yahoo! BOSS, but goes further and provides a simple framework for building distributed search networks.

django-viewtools provides a management command to help in debugging and profiling views.

Here is a collection of semantic resources in order to ease the implementation of semantic Django web apps.

Reversion is an extension to the Django web framework that provides comprehensive version control facilities.

This is the second part in a series on implementing fine-grained HTTP controls and developing RESTful services with Django.

One of Django’s great strengths lie in its abundant library of 3rd party “pluggable” Need a blog? Grab a few pluggable apps to get you off your feet. The only problem is… they’re so hard to find and keep track of. That’s what we’re here for. We do the work of making sure you’re keeping your pluggables up-to-date.

Typogrify is a collection of Django template filters that help prettify your web typography by preventing ugly quotes and widows and providing CSS hooks to style some special cases.

The Django Debug Toolbar is a configurable set of panels that display various debug information about the current request/response and when clicked, display more details about the panel's content.

The appenginepatch project consists of two packages which make it easier to develop Django projects for Google App Engine. The minimum supported Django version is 1.0.

This article will walk you through the process of starting a new Django project and getting it running on Google App Engine by reproducing the initial steps of creating the Polls application from the official Django tutorial. At each step the changes required for the App Engine environment are highlighted.

How to make one field use a custom field-editing widget.

The test client is a Python class that acts as a dummy Web browser, allowing you to test your views and interact with your Django-powered application programatically.

This provides basic Tenjin integration, using a decorator. Tenjin is a blazingly fast templating system.

YUI modules requirements can be declared anywhere in templates, and the resulting, optimized <script> and <link rel="stylesheet"> tags are inserted at the specified position of the resulting page.

Ajax submiting and processing form errors with newforms,