Aug. 1, 2020 » Thomas Loiret - Random thoughts » [Archived Version]
How to determine if GPS coordinates are within a specific geographical zone.
Read MoreJuly 30, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I created documentation for anyone interested in trying out the application. After documenting the setup, I moved on to fixing a bug with the scheduling display of courses. In the latter half of the stream, we focused on creating a new reports section to show progress reports for students. One of my patrons requested some documentation to explain how to get started with the project. We updated the README.
Read MoreJuly 23, 2020 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
An article about my first participation as a speaker at an online conference: EuroPython 2020.
Read MoreJuly 23, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I updated a model to handle the default duration of new tasks. This default needed to come from the Course model instead of the CourseTask model so we had to determine how best to set that data in various forms. I also fixed some drop down selection bugs that populated a form with the wrong data. We made sure that all the code was well tested. I created a new default_task_duration field to the Course model.
Read MoreJuly 22, 2020 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
EuroPython is the official European conference for the Python programming language.
Read MoreJuly 21, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
On this episode, we will explore more about models and how to interact with data in your database. Listen at djangoriffs.com. Last Episode On the last episode, we discussed the basics of setting up a database and creating a model to store data. Working With Models To create new rows in our new database tables, we can use a model’s save method. When you save a model instance, Django will send a message to the database that effectively says “add this new data to this database table.
Read MoreJuly 15, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
We're taking a summer break and will be back in September with new episodes, guests, and topics.
Read MoreJuly 15, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Django Fellow Mariusz Felisiak joins us to discuss the new features in Django 3.1, including async views/middleware/tests, cross-db JSONFields, improved admin, the addition of pathlib, and more.
Read MoreJuly 9, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we worked on a view to enroll students into a grade level for the school year. I added all the context data and used Tailwind to design the form layout to pick from a list of available grade levels. We added a variety of unit tests to prove the correctness. The enrollment page needed three pieces of data in the context to complete the form. We added the student, school_year, and grade_levels data to the context and wrote tests to show the data in there.
Read MoreJuly 8, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Aymeric is a longtime Django contributor and member of the Django Technical Board. We discuss his background with Django, contributions to the codebase and docs, multiple open-source projects, and more.
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