Sessions at DjangoCon US 2010 about PBS

Tuesday 7th September 2010

• Teaching an Old Pony New Tricks: Maintaining and Updating an Aging Django Project

  by Shawn Rider

  PBS began development on its first Django project in 2006 using Django 0.96. PBS TeacherLine launched in 2007 and continues to run today. This talk will discuss the process for designing the PBS TeacherLine codebase, how new advanced features were added over the years, and pitfalls you can avoid when planning projects for longevity and easy maintenance.

  • Django
  • Maintenance
  • PBS

  At 10:30am to 11:10am, Tuesday 7th September

  Coverage slide deck video

• Django Forms: Tips, Tricks and Ways to Stay Out of Trouble

  by Shawn Rider

  As a Django novice, one challenge is understanding the full depth and power of the core Django modules. At PBS we have found that leveraging the features of Django's Forms module helps us create better code that is easy to maintain and facilitates future enhancements to our sites. This presentation will discuss some often overlooked features of Forms, helpful tips, and potential pitfalls.

  • Django
  • Django Forms
  • PBS

  At 2:20pm to 3:00pm, Tuesday 7th September

  Coverage slide deck video

Thursday 9th September 2010

• Massaging the Pony: Message Queues and You

  by Shawn Rider

  Message queues are a potential solution for any site that needs to facilitate robust asynchronous operations on your website including carrying out intensive or long-running actions or synchronizing off-site services. We will look at how PBS has used Celery and RabbitMQ to provide more reliable service and how to set up a robust message queue solution in a cloud hosting environment.

  • Celery
  • Django
  • Message Queues
  • PBS
  • RabbitMQ

  At 11:20am to 12:00pm, Thursday 9th September

  Coverage slide deck video