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Debugging async Django under Uvicorn with Pycharm

Oct. 31, 2020 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]

In this short guide you learn how to debug Django under Uvicorn with Pycharm.

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Django: adding extra context data to a CreateView

Oct. 30, 2020 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]

What method should you override when you want extra context data in a Django CreateView?

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Sending Invites - Building SaaS #77

Oct. 29, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I worked on the form that will send invites to users for the new social network app that I’m building. We built the view, the form, and the tests and wired a button to the new view. The first thing that we do was talk through the new changes since the last stream. After discussing the progress, I took some time to cover the expected budget for the application to get it to an MVP.

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MongoDB - Aaron Bassett

Oct. 28, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Aaron is a developer advocate at MongoDB and Board Member of the Django Software Foundation. We discuss relational vs non-relational databases, the developer advocate role, and giving virtual conference talks.

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Episode 9 - Application Examination

Oct. 20, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

On this episode, we will study the structure of a Django application. Applications are the core components that make up a Django project. Listen at djangoriffs.com. Last Episode On the last episode, we focused on the built-in Django administrator’s site. We’ll saw what it is, how you can configure it, and how you can customize it to serve your needs. What Is An Application? In Django parlance, a “web application” is a Django project.

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Capped Social Network - Building SaaS #76

Oct. 15, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I started a new project to build a different kind of social network. This social network will contain a max number of connections to encourage thoughtful choice when growing your personal network. We talked MVP features and put in the basics of a Django app. I had a wild thought to build a social network with a capped number of connection in the hope that users would choose their connections based on people that they really care about.

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Ethical Ads - David Fischer

Oct. 14, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

David is an engineer at Read the Docs where he focuses on EthicalAds.io, a developer and privacy-focused ad network. We talk about internet advertising and why much of it is not ethical, the open source code powering the ad server, and what it takes to serve tens of millions of monthly API requests.

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Django London Meetup 2020

Oct. 12, 2020 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

The Django London Meetup group is a social meetup, that hold a gathering the 2nd Tuesday of each month.

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Make A Landing Page - Building SaaS #75

Oct. 8, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I added a landing page design to the app that I’m building. By using a Tailwind CSS landing page template, I could fit the design in with my existing CSS tools. I showed some available templates that I discovered while researching for Tailwind-based landing pages. Once I found a decent template, I copied the source of sample landing page into my index page template. Since I copy and pasted from the landing page, the initial look was terrible.

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Hijack To Help Customers

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

You have an upset customer with a really thorny problem on your Django-powered website. Your customer used your help ticket system and reported their woe. You’ve done your due diligence and have already checked: The logs from your site show nothing interesting related to the customer’s actions The error tracking system reveals no exceptions from what the customer did The customer’s description doesn’t contain enough info to diagnose the problem fully The experiments in …

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