Nov. 20, 2018 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]
If you’re not the sort of person who closely follows the internals of Django’s development, you might not know there’s a draft proposal to drastically change the project’s governance. It’s been getting discussion on GitHub and mailing lists, but I want to take some time today to walk through and explain what this proposal does and what problems it’s trying to solve. So. Let’s dive in. What’s wrong with Django? Django the web framework is…
Read MoreNov. 20, 2018 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]
If you’re not the sort of person who closely follows the internals of Django’s development, you might not know there’s a draft proposal to drastically change the project’s governance. It’s been getting discussion on GitHub and mailing lists, but I want to take some time today to walk through and explain what this proposal does and what problems it’s trying to solve. So. Let’s dive in. What’s wrong with Django? Django the web framework is…
Read MoreNov. 19, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
I started streaming on Twitch. The stream covers how to build a Software as a Service (SaaS) with Python using Django. The stream runs at 9pm Eastern time on Wednesday most weeks. I show developers how to build a site that is more complex than a tutorial. We look at: Designing and creating pages for users How to create automated tests for the code Making background jobs that handle business processes Deploying code and infrastructure development During the stream, we’re working on Col…
Read MoreNov. 8, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this stream episode, I built a Django model that would allow my SaaS app (College Conductor) to deal with multiple Stripe plans. After building the model, we updated the landing page to display a different plan based on the database data from the model.
Read MoreOct. 31, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I took data that we collected from a web scraping task built in the first stream and created a report email that could be sent to the site admin.
Read MoreOct. 25, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
This was the first episode and it was an experiment in streaming. In future episodes, I’ve greatly improved audio and video settings. I’d suggest checking those out.
Read MoreOct. 24, 2018 » Instawork Engineering » [Archived Version]
About a year ago, Instawork started experimenting with a new product called Gigs. Gigs lets restaurants and caterers fill on-demand shifts with pre-qualified dishwashers, cooks, and servers from Instawork’s network of professionals. Our MVP was little more than a Google form to request shifts. This worked OK in the early days, but as the product took off, it became clear we needed a web dashboard for managers to view and edit their gigs.Our existing web dashboard (a hiring app for full time job…
Read MoreOct. 17, 2018 » REVSYS Blog » [Archived Version]
A Guide to Hiring Programmers: The High Cost of Low Quality
Read MoreOct. 8, 2018 » Thomas Loiret - Random thoughts » [Archived Version]
Be sure to use trustworthy tools to determine your metrics and be methodical about how you are looking for a bottleneck.
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