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Django Admin

June 12, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

The built-in Admin app is one of Django's killer features but often asked to do too much. In this episode we discuss how to effectively use and customize the admin.

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Deployments

June 5, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

How to deploy a website on Django as well as our thoughts on the multiple hosting options available.

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Teaching Python - Nicholas Tollervey

May 29, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Nicholas Tollervey has played a major role in how Python is taught to millions of students. A former music teacher turned software developer, he worked on the BBC micro:bit project that put a computing device in the hands of a million 11-12 year olds in the UK. He's also the creator of the Mu editor for Python beginners, CodeGrades, and many other projects.

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Django Tips: Recovering Gracefully From ORM Errors

May 29, 2019 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]

Learn how to recover from ORM errors in Django and make your views more robust with try/except and a nice Django shortcut: get_object_or_404

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Improving UI performance with Django’s Prefetch

May 28, 2019 » Instawork Engineering » [Archived Version]

Improving UI performance with Django’s Prefetch ObjectAs an engineer at Instawork, it’s my responsibility to make sure our web UI loads quickly to provide a great user experience. It can be hard to keep a page fast as we add features and display more information. I recently worked on such a page, which gave me an opportunity to learn about Django’s tools for optimizing database query performance.A core feature of Instawork is connecting our business partners with qualified hospitality professio…

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Upgrade PostgreSQL from 10 to 11 on Ubuntu 19.04

May 27, 2019 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

Howto guide for upgrading PostgreSQL from version 10 to 11 on Ubuntu, after its upgrade from version 18.10 to 19.04 (Disco Dingo).

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Authentication

May 22, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

How to add user authentication to a Django website or API. Topics include sessions, tokens, JWTs, Social/OAuth, and more.

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PGDay.IT 2019

May 16, 2019 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

PGDay.IT is the Italian event dedicated to PostgreSQL, one of the most successful open-source projects.

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Conferences

May 15, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

How to make the most of a Python or Django conference.

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6 digit OTP for Two Factor Auth (2FA) is brute-forceable in 3 days

May 11, 2019 » Luke Plant » [Archived Version]

OTP/TOTP for two factor auth (2FA/MFA) is very easy to misunderstand and implement insecurely

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