Jan. 6, 2021 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Matt is a Software Architect at Doctor on Demand and a prolific Django educator. We talk about Django at scale, leading a large engineering team, and teaching Django to newcomers.
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In the previous Understand Django article, I described how Django gives us tools to run code for any request using the middleware system. Our next focus will be on static files. Static files are vital to your application, but they have little to do with Python code. We’ll see what they are and what they do. From Browser To DjangoURLs Lead The WayViews On ViewsTemplates For User InterfacesUser Interaction With FormsStore Data With ModelsAdminister All The ThingsAnatomy Of An ApplicationUse…
Read MoreDec. 31, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I integrated customer documentation into the app. I showed how to build Sphinx documentation into a Django project, then created a help view to link to the docs. Finally, I added documentation building to the deployment process. I previously created a Sphinx documentation project to hold docs for my app, but I had not hooked the docs into my project yet. Before hooking it in, I explained how Sphinx works and how I customized the documentation to fit with my project.
Read MoreDec. 28, 2020 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]
This article looks at what Continuous Delivery is, why it's a competitive advantage, and what the process looks like.
Read MoreDec. 23, 2020 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]
This article looks at the most commonly used web authentication methods.
Read MoreDec. 23, 2020 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Paolo is a Django contributor and prolific conference speaker based in Italy. We discuss using PostgreSQL-powered full text search within Django as using GeoDjango for mapping projects.
Read MoreDec. 23, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I decided to redesign a portion of the application flow. I wasn’t pleased with how users would enroll students for their grades so I refactored the school year page into a flow that worked better. Note: My internet connection was not good during this stream. Thankfully, the audio is fine and reading code is very possible because the background doesn’t need to change much. My apologies for the low quality.
Read MoreDec. 22, 2020 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
A podcast on the Django Web Framework by William Vincent and Carlton Gibson.
Read MoreDec. 19, 2020 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]
In this post I share some recipes for testing Django with Cypress, with a focus on the authentication flow.
Read MoreDec. 17, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I returned to the onboarding flow and start to polish some of the extra pages. We filled the pages with special copy and a call to action to each page to help customers be successful. I started with the pages that displays the school years. We added a chunk of template from the onboarding process that asks the user to create a school year. I modified the template chunk to make it fit in the context of the page.
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