Feb. 25, 2019 » /var/ - django » [Archived Version]
How to properly fix the errors you get when integrating async jobs (rq, celery etc) with your database in Djang
Read MoreFeb. 19, 2019 » Instawork Engineering » [Archived Version]
At Instawork we have multiple different environments (test, development, staging, production) and we have quite a few different Django…Continue reading on Instawork Engineering »
Read MoreFeb. 6, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
Here’s a recap of what happened on the Building SaaS with Python and Django stream this past month. If some of these topics interest you, check them out! If you want to join live in the future, I stream live on Twitch on Wednesdays at 9pm Eastern time in the U.S. at https://www.twitch.tv/mblayman. Completing a 3rd party integration We spent some weeks in December building a 3rd party integration into College Conductor (the SaaS project that the stream focuses on).
Read MoreJan. 16, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we started on a tools dashboard for admin-level users. We talked about Django’s auth module for handling access and how to protect views from unauthorized users.
Read MoreDec. 28, 2018 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]
This tutorial looks at how to integrate Stripe Connect into a Django application.
Read MoreDec. 26, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we added the background task that does web scraping to collect data from a third party service. We wrote a Celery task and used requests and Beautiful Soup to handle all the scraping.
Read MoreDec. 19, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this stream episode, we added our third party integration (Prompt) to the page where school information is displayed. This involved some Django model changes, view additions, and template development.
Read MoreDec. 13, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
What happens when you take a novice web developer and put him in front of an audience equipped with the Django tutorial only? That’s what we did at Python Frederick. The conversation and learning that resulted was awesome. Check out the video on YouTube to see what you can learn too! Our presenter was Patrick Pierson. Patrick works for IronNet Cybersecurity as a Senior Software Engineer. He uses Python daily to deploy AWS resources and test the IronNet platform.
Read MoreNov. 29, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this stream episode, we took some new data from a new Django database model, and I showed how to add that data to different templates. Along the way, we wrote automated tests and generated a database migration.
Read MoreNov. 26, 2018 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]
A couple weeks ago I gave a talk about usernames at North Bay Python. The content came mostly from things I’ve learned in roughly 12 years of maintaining django-registration, which has taught me more than I ever wanted to know about how complex even “simple” things can be. I mentioned toward the beginning of the talk, though, that it wasn’t going to be one of those “falsehoods programmers believe about X” things. If … Read full entry
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