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Building a Django middleware (injecting data into a view's context)

Dec. 12, 2019 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]

In this post you'll learn how to build your own Django middleware and how to inject data into a view's context directly from the middleware.

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Security

Dec. 11, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

We discuss why web security is so important, how to implement it properly with Django, common web attacks, social engineering, the principle of least privilege, and more.

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New Project, Who Dis? - Building SaaS #38

Dec. 6, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we started a brand new project! I had some internet troubles so this “stream” is actually a local recording from my computer. We created a new Django project from scratch and set up Heroku to handle deployments. In spite of the streaming trouble, we were able to get a bunch done. We started the project from scratch so we made a repository on GitHub with some .gitignore settings tailored for Python projects.

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E-Commerce - Jacob Rief

Dec. 4, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Jacob maintains many popular Django packages including django-shop, a popular e-commerce solution. We discuss the challenges of handling payments, web components, and more.

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SSH_AUTH_SOCK, tmux and you

Nov. 30, 2019 » REVSYS Blog » [Archived Version]

SSH_AUTH_SOCK, tmux and you

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Listen Notes - Wenbin Fang

Nov. 27, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Listen Notes is a search engine for podcasts powered by Django. It’s founder, Wenbin Fang, joins us to talk about building a one-person internet company, prototyping it over a weekend, and how simple tools scale well.

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ReDos + Node.js

Nov. 27, 2019 » Thomas Loiret - Random thoughts » [Archived Version]

When developing with NodeJS, you should be aware of regular expression denial of service (ReDoS).

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Caching

Nov. 20, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

We discuss how caching dramatically improves website performance, Django’s 4 built-in options, and Redis vs Memcached.

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Showing SQL Queries with Pytest and Django

Nov. 20, 2019 » Tinker, Tamper, Alter, Fry » [Archived Version]

I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s sometimes useful to see the actual SQL queries that Django emitted, which is surprisingly hard. I assumed that that would be such an obvious and common need, that a simple switch (for pytest-django) or easy plugin […]

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Kenneth Love

Nov. 13, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Kenneth Love is a longtime Django developer, teacher (at Treehouse), and dev lead at O’Reilly. We discuss how to onboard new team members, burnout, remote work, and his advice for Django newcomers.

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