June 27, 2019 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]
Code reviews are an important part of how we write code today. It’s pretty rare to find a company that doesn’t practice code reviews in some shape or form. If the drivers for doing code reviews in the company aren’t engineers it’s regulation. Code reviews have become a compliance requirement for some security standards (e.g. PCI DSS 3.0)!
Read MoreJune 27, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we got into a static files problem that caused a template to fail to load from the Shiv app. After some serious spelunking through the Django code and deep debugging, we found the file permission error that was the source of the problem.
Read MoreJune 26, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Georg Holzmann is the founder of Auphonic, a leading provider of automated audio post-production powered by Python and Django.
Read MoreJune 20, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we got our hands dirty with the Django Shiv app that we build to work out issues with finding templates and other settings problems.
Read MoreJune 19, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Jessica Deaton is a conference co-chair for DjangoCon US 2019 and a board member of the Django Software Foundation. We discuss how her involvement grew in the Django community and how others can become more involved too.
Read MoreJune 12, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
The built-in Admin app is one of Django's killer features but often asked to do too much. In this episode we discuss how to effectively use and customize the admin.
Read MoreJune 5, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
How to deploy a website on Django as well as our thoughts on the multiple hosting options available.
Read MoreMay 29, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Nicholas Tollervey has played a major role in how Python is taught to millions of students. A former music teacher turned software developer, he worked on the BBC micro:bit project that put a computing device in the hands of a million 11-12 year olds in the UK. He's also the creator of the Mu editor for Python beginners, CodeGrades, and many other projects.
Read MoreMay 29, 2019 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]
Learn how to recover from ORM errors in Django and make your views more robust with try/except and a nice Django shortcut: get_object_or_404
Read MoreMay 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…
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