Web Special Interest Group

Javascript

Testing JS - most using selenium, but someone suggested CasperJS

Non-Django work

• cornice
• celery
• web.py
• flask
• turbogears
• pyramid
• workzeug for request and response objects, jinja for templating - custom code around that
• security reviews tend to like frameworks

Dealing with legacy code

Strangler pattern - put proxy in front, replace bit by bit until nothing is left

Martin Fowler on the topic http://martinfowler.com/bliki/StranglerApplication.html

New CMS built on Django

• will be open sourced soon
• front end editing
• save versions, save and publish, add notes
• add blocks
• redactor js wysiwyg editor - light and fast - http://imperavi.com/redactor/ - but not open source

Django tables 2 and CSV

• https://github.com/bradleyayers/django-tables2/pull/119
• Aptivate has been using it for a while, makes it easy to add CSV versions of tables