Bio
Dr Russell Keith-Magee is the founder of the BeeWare project, developing GUI tools and libraries to support the development of Python software on desktop and mobile platforms. He is also a 14 year veteran of the Django core team, and for 5 years, was President of the Django Software Foundation. In his day job, he wrangles data pipelines for Survata. He lives in Perth, Western Australia with his wife, two children, and two animals that claim to be cats but have almost no feline properties.
My Talks
Red User, Blue User, MyUser, auth.User
Django's contrib.auth framework allows to you specify a custom user model. Why does this matter? When should you use a custom user model? And how do you live with it once you've got one?