On Friday I gave a talk at Django Under The Hood on files, potentially a dry and boring topic which I tried to enliven with dinosaurs and getting angry about things. I covered everything from django.core.files.File, through HTTP handling of uploads, Forms support, ORM support and on to Storage backends, django.contrib.staticfiles, Form.Media, and out into the wider world of asset pipelines, looking at Sprockets, gulp and more, with some thoughts about how we might make Django play nicely with all these ideas.
You used to be able to watch the talk online, but then Elastic bought Opbeat and apparently that’s that. You can still check out my slides, although you probably want them with presenter notes (otherwise they’re pretty opaque). The talk was well received, and I suspect there’s still some useful work to be done in this space.