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Jazzband - Matthias Kestenholz

Dec. 9, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Matthias is a longtime Django contributor and member of Jazzband, which manages many 3rd party packages including django-debug-toolbar. He’s also the creator of feincms and founder of the company Feinheit.

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Maps with Django⁽¹⁾: GeoDjango, SpatiaLite & Leaflet

Dec. 7, 2020 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

A quickstart guide to create a web map with the Python-based web framework Django using its module GeoDjango, the SQLite database with its spatial extension SpatiaLite and Leaflet, a JavaScript library for interactive maps.

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A Vue.js workflow for Django

Dec. 7, 2020 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]

A Vue.js workflow for Django which I found out working well for most use cases.

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How To Set Up Tailwind CSS In Django On Heroku

Dec. 6, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

How can you set up Tailwind CSS for your Django app on Heroku? In this article, we’ll see how I did exactly that recently. I have a side project that uses Tailwind CSS. To get started quickly, I used the version from a Content Delivery Network (CDN) as Tailwind describes in the documentation. This worked fine initially while I got my project started, but the CDN version is huge (around 3MB).

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Finishing Onboarding - Building SaaS #81

Dec. 3, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I completed the last form that completes the last step on my Django app’s onboarding process. We built up the view, wrote the tests, and worked through the templates changes. I started with a discussion of what the onboarding flow does and what was left. I needed to make a form that creates a task for a course. For the first chunk of code, we added some tests to cover all the scenarios that are important for the view.

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Episode 10 - User Auth

Nov. 24, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

On this episode, we’re going to look at working with users in a Django project. We’ll see Django’s tools for identifying users and checking what those users are permitted to do on your website. Listen at djangoriffs.com. Last Episode On the last episode, I explained the structure of Django application. We also talked why this structure is significant and how Django apps benefit the Django ecosystem as a tool for sharing code.

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Django Software Foundation - 2021 Board Nominations

Nov. 20, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Nominations are due November 30th for next year’s Board of the Django Software Foundation, the non-profit that runs Django. We discuss the DSF’s mission, day-to-day work, and how to become more involved in the community.

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Django Testing Cheat Sheet

Nov. 19, 2020 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]

A cheat-sheet of common testing recipes for Django applications.

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Make A Hugo Static Blog Inside A Django App

Nov. 16, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

I have a side project and I’d like to do some content marketing to potential customers to show how my product is useful. To do this, I need a blog for my project. Maybe you need a blog for your project too. Have you thought about where your blog will exist on the internet? For me, I considered two choices: Use a subdomain like blog.mysite.com. Use a route style like mysite.

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