May 28, 2019 » Instawork Engineering » [Archived Version]
Improving UI performance with Django’s Prefetch ObjectAs an engineer at Instawork, it’s my responsibility to make sure our web UI loads quickly to provide a great user experience. It can be hard to keep a page fast as we add features and display more information. I recently worked on such a page, which gave me an opportunity to learn about Django’s tools for optimizing database query performance.A core feature of Instawork is connecting our business partners with qualified hospitality professio…
Read MoreMay 22, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
How to add user authentication to a Django website or API. Topics include sessions, tokens, JWTs, Social/OAuth, and more.
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How to make the most of a Python or Django conference.
Read MoreMay 8, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
An interview with Robby Grodin from PathAI, a medical startup using Django to transform the field of pathology. We discuss switching from Java, microservices vs monoliths, and the challenges of hiring Django developers.
Read MoreMay 1, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
The Django Software Foundation is the non-profit in charge of Django. Its president, Frank Wiles, joins us to discuss how Django is run and how anyone in the community can become more involved.
Read MoreApril 27, 2019 » Clivern » [Archived Version]
Everyone want to keep Django timezone support but sometimes you need to keep your SQL queries a way from timezone conversion especially if by default your application timezone is UTC. Django will do something like this CONVERT_TZ(`app_incident`.`datetime`, 'UTC', 'UTC')) and it will return Null if the timezone table is empty. Even that conversion is not […] The post Django Custom Month and Year Lookup first appeared on Clivern.
Read MoreApril 24, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
An interview with Tom Dyson on Wagtail, the leading Django-based CMS used by tens of thousands of organizations including Google, NASA, and the British NHS.
Read MoreApril 23, 2019 » Clivern » [Archived Version]
By default Django has a date lookup that support timezones. It actually will wrap your field with CONVERT_TZ in case USE_TZ is True. This is pretty awesome unless you have timezones table empty because this call will return Null. But even the following will work, It is not safe with Daylight saving timing. You can […] The post Django Custom Lookups first appeared on Clivern.
Read MoreApril 18, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In the latest episode of Building SaaS with Python and Django, we completed the account deactivation workflow of the Django app. This included: Canceling the subscription with Stripe. Marking the user as inactive. Sending the user to a friendly page to indicate that their account is deactivated. The recording is available on YouTube and the full transcript is below.
Read MoreApril 17, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
How to get started contributing to Django and why it's so helpful to the community and your own career.
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