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Advanced Django
The document summarizes Simon Willison's presentation on advanced Django topics including unit testing, newforms, Ajax, and OpenID. Key points include: - Unit testing in Django is encouraged through features like fixtures, doctests, test client, and email capture. Tests should be written before code using test-driven development. - Newforms provide a declarative way to create forms with fields, validation, rendering, and conversion to Python types. Forms make it easy to display, validate, and process user submissions. - The test client allows simulating a browser to test views and templates. Ajax functionality can return HTML, XML, or JSON and be integrated with JavaScript libraries like jQuery. - Form validation
