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Announcing django-denied

Aug. 1, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

I have paranoia when it comes to my Django app. I run a homeschool scheduling service called School Desk. My Software as a Service (SaaS) lets families plan their homeschool activities. Since the app deals with data about students (including my kids!), it’s important to me that every user’s data is protected, so that users can only view their own information. When I designed the system, I picked a shared Postgres schema (i.

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Extract a New Open Source Package - Building SaaS with Python and Django #140

July 28, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I pulled out code from homeschool application and started a new open source project for a portion that I thought would be useful for others. The new package, which I have called django-denied, is a way of handling authorization in your Django apps.

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Extract a New Open Source Package - Building SaaS #140

July 28, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I pulled out code from homeschool application and started a new open source project for a portion that I thought would be useful for others. The new package, which I have called django-denied, is a way of handling authorization in your Django apps.

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Teacher Checklist Model - Building SaaS with Python and Django #139

July 21, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we created a new model for the teacher checklist feature that I recently added to my homeschool app. This new checklist model will enable users to filter out courses that appear on a teacher’s checklist.

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Teacher Checklist Template - Building SaaS with Python and Django #138

June 30, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I started by finishing off some refactoring work that I began on the previous stream. Once that was wrapped up, I built the data for the teacher checklist wit the context data that I added in previous streams.

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Refactoring and New Features - Building SaaS with Python and Django #137

June 23, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I continued on the teacher checklist for the homeschooling app. We added data to the context and this required some refactoring to be able to reuse data from other parts of the app.

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New App In Project - Building SaaS with Python and Django #136

June 16, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I broke ground on a brand new feature. The feature will be a task checklist for teachers. Since the checklist is directly for teachers, I created a new Django app named teachers and showed how to hook that into the rest of my Django project.

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New App In Project - Building SaaS #136

June 16, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I broke ground on a brand new feature. The feature will be a task checklist for teachers. Since the checklist is directly for teachers, I created a new Django app named teachers and showed how to hook that into the rest of my Django project.

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Debugging Tips And Techniques

May 31, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In the last Understand Django article, we looked at security. How does a Django site stay safe on the big, bad internet? The article explored some core elements for making a Django app more secure. With this article, we will investigate problem solving techniques for Django apps. The goal is to equip you with tools to fix the real problems that you’ll hit when building your Django site. From Browser To DjangoURLs Lead The WayViews On ViewsTemplates For User InterfacesUser Interaction With Forms…

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Brew Install The World - Building SaaS with Python and Django #135

May 26, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I tried to get started after a long break, but my virtual environment was broken. This entire episode is a journey deep into Python installing world. Did I come out on the other side? Yes, we figured it out. You’ll have to watch (or skip to the end) to figure out what happened. :)

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