Sessions at DjangoCon Europe 2011 about Python and Django

Monday 6th June 2011

• How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Python Packaging

  by Jannis Leidel

  Distributing Django apps with standard Python packaging tools has for a long time been dreaded by the community for good reasons -- from bad documentation and confusing conventions to missing integration with Django standards and unreliable infrastructure.

  In this talk I show what is being done to fix that and how you can profit from it:

  • The past of Python packaging, brief historical overview
  • Common pitfalls and gotchas when releasing Python software
  • Integration with everyday software development
  • The future of packaging with Distutils2 and Depot
  • Django
  • Packaging
  • Python

  At 12:15pm to 1:00pm, Monday 6th June

  Coverage video slide deck write-up

Wednesday 8th June 2011

• An iPhone-Python love affair: Building APIs for mobile

  by Nate Aune and Anna Callahan

  Mobile apps are the hot item of the day -- and the best mobile apps are backed by a great website. Python web developer Nate Aune and iPhone developer Anna Callahan will show you how we built a simple music web app in Django with a native iPhone app that communicates with it. Attendees of this talk will see a concrete case study of building an application that exposes an API for mobile devices.

  Our web app exposes a JSON API for sending and receiving data from the mobile device. We’ll talk about why we chose Django and the TastyPie API package, and discuss other packages that could be used to build the API such as django-piston or the Django REST framework. We’ll also compare REST and custom APIs to understand best practices for building APIs designed for mobile devices.

  • Django
  • iPhone
  • Mobile
  • Python
  • REST

  At 10:30am to 11:15am, Wednesday 8th June

  Coverage video slide deck write-up