Feb. 3, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I need tools to inspect some PDF reports that I’m building that customers of my homeschool app will use at the end of the school year. I build the admin tools that allow me to see these PDFs quickly.
Read MoreFeb. 2, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Karen is a developer and co-owner at Caktus Group, a former DSF Board member, and author of the book Django Testing and Debugging. We discuss her PhD computing background, auto-scaling large sites, JavaScript front-ends, and more.
Read MoreJan. 27, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we built out a customer requested feature of adding order of grade levels within the school year of my homeschool app. This will allow users to change the display of crucial pages within the app.
Read MoreJan. 21, 2022 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]
Upgrading from Django 2.2 to Django 3.2 caused a severe performance degradation with MySQL 5.7 due to a bug introduced in Django 3.1.
Read MoreJan. 21, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we continued to build the PDF reporting feature. The focus on the stream was on building the zip archive file as the HTTP response. This will be the container for future PDF reports. I also started the setup for the weasyprint PDF package.
Read MoreJan. 21, 2022 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]
Upgrading from Django 2.2 to Django 3.2 caused a severe performance degradation with MySQL 5.7 due to a bug introduced in Django 3.1.
Read MoreJan. 19, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Mohammed and Matthew are software developers at UC Berkeley who use Django and Wagtail extensively. We discuss their programming careers, porting existing projects over to Django, and their excitement around htmx.
Read MoreJan. 19, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In the last Understand Django article, we learned about commands. Commands are the way to execute scripts that interact with your Django app. With this article, we’re going to dig into performance. How do you make your Django site faster? Keep reading to find out. From Browser To DjangoURLs Lead The WayViews On ViewsTemplates For User InterfacesUser Interaction With FormsStore Data With ModelsAdminister All The ThingsAnatomy Of An ApplicationUser AuthenticationMiddleware Do You Go?
Read MoreJan. 11, 2022 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]
This tutorial shows how to use Django Channels to create a real-time application.
Read MoreJan. 6, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we started work on a new feature for the homeschool application. This feature is a report bundle that will add PDFs of all school year activities to a zip archive for a customer’s record keeping purposes.
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