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A few weeks ago I gave a talk at AirConf 2014, a virtual conference organised bymy friends at AirPair, about what's new in Django 1.7. Here's the video:
I kept the slides simple, on purpose, as most of the interesting stuff was in the code demos. You can find them here anyway....

There are loads of little commands in vim for navigating around your files. One of the ones I like the most is gd, for "go to local declaration". What that does - or is supposed to do - is find the place at which the identifier under the cursor is declared...

I spend a lot of time in the Python shell - specifically, IPython. Like many Python programmers, I find it invaluable for delving into the structure of objects, exploring their members, running their methods, and so on. It's really the dynamic language...

It should be reasonably well-known by now that querysets are lazy. That is, simply instantiating a queryset via a manager doesn't actually hit the database: that doesn't happen until the queryset is sliced or iterated. That's why the first field definition...