Jan. 31, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
On this episode, we discuss Django’s front door, URLs. We talk about what URLs are, how to build them in Django, and the functions Django provides to work with URLs. Listen at djangoriffs.com. What’s a URL? A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator. It is the full address that goes into a browser. Consider https://www.mattlayman.com/django-riffs/. Here are the parts: Scheme, https:// Domain name: Top Level Domain (TLD), com Domain, mattlayman Subdomain, www Path or route, /django-riffs/ URLconf …
Read MoreJan. 30, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
Welcome to the show notes for the first episode of Django Riffs! Django Riffs is a podcast for learning web application development in Python using the Django web framework. Listen at djangoriffs.com. Who Is This For? This podcast is for absolute Django beginners. No prior knowledge of Django or web development is expected. Experienced users may learn something new or get a good refresher from topics they might have missed in the documentation.
Read MoreJan. 29, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Anna discusses GeoDjango, a built-in contrib module that turns Django into a world-class geographic Web framework.
Read MoreJan. 22, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
The Django security team recently rushed out a fix in two days time, start to finish. We discuss the normal security cadence and why staying on the latest Django release is so important.
Read MoreJan. 22, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In the last article in the Understand Django series, we saw how a user’s browser request goes from their browser to Django’s “front door.” Now it’s time to look at how Django processes those requests. An HTTP request coming from a browser includes a URL describing which resource Django should produce. Since URLs can come in many forms, we must instruct Django on the kinds of URLs that our web application can handle.
Read MoreJan. 15, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Tom is the creator of Django REST Framework, HTTPX, and a whole suite of new async Python web stack packages.
Read MoreJan. 15, 2020 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]
Learn how to use Django Q for offloading asynchronous tasks in your Django applications.
Read MoreJan. 15, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we added django-allauth to create accounts that default to email instead of using usernames. We added the package, configured some templates, and created tests. We continued to look at Will Vincent’s django-allauth post on creating user accounts with email and passwords. django-allauth let’s us swap out username and email so that users won’t need to create a username, which is the behavior that I want for this service.
Read MoreJan. 8, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
José has made major contributions to the Django ecosystem, especially around Django REST Framework and authentication. He is now an engineer at Auth0.
Read MoreJan. 8, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
Maybe you have heard about Django and that it can help you build websites. You might be new to Python, new to web development, or new to programming. This new series, Understand Django, will show you what Django is all about. Throughout this series, I will reveal how Django is a powerful tool that can unlock the potential of anyone interested in making applications on the internet. Django is used by companies like Instagram, Eventbrite, Disqus, and Udemy, and is also a great tool for individual…
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