Jannis gives a technical tour of improvements to Django's I18N/L10N subsystems.

Rob introduces class-based feeds and other improvements to syndication.

Arthur shows us how to save precious, precious keystrokes when invoking management commands.

Andrew looks at how Django's defenses against CSRF attacks have improved.

Dr. Downing shares the result of his research into the murky past of the Django Pony.

Mike Malone explains the fundamentals of web-scale application building in the context of Django.

Eric Holscher covers testing improvements in 1.2 from the two perspectives of app authors and Django contributors.

Zain exposes the salacious backstory behind the inclusion of jQuery in contrib.admin.

Chris dives deep into the new smart if template tag.

Eric Florenzano gives a step-by-step walkthrough on setting up an alternative stack for serving up Django.

Honza shares his trials and tribulations on getting model validation into Django.

Alex Gaynor explains the motivation behind template caching, how to use it, caveats, and a bonus feature.

Russell Keith-Magee carefully explains the problem natural keys solve, how to set them up, and other reasons why you may want to use them.

Florian gives us the inside scoop on using object permissions and provides an example of adding extra permissions to flat pages.

Kevin talks about the various aspects of building and maintaining a popular Django project comprised of many smaller reusable apps.

Sean O'Connor walks us through using the new raw SQL query facilities in concert with the ORM.

Jeff tells us what was broken about the old messages framework and shows us how to use the new one.

Alex Gaynor gets us up to speed on the multi-db changes and how to use them.