Aug. 10, 2022 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]
This article looks at how to integrate Mailchimp with Django for newsletters and transactional emails.
Read MoreAug. 3, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Django 4.1 was released today! This discussion from May covers what's new in 4.1 and the work of Jeff Triplett who is the maintainer of djangopackages.org, a partner at RevSys, Python Software Foundation Director, and DjangoCon organizer.
Read MoreAug. 1, 2022 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]
This article looks at the differences between Django's class-based views (CBV) and function-based views (FBV).
Read MoreAug. 1, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
I have paranoia when it comes to my Django app. I run a homeschool scheduling service called School Desk. My Software as a Service (SaaS) lets families plan their homeschool activities. Since the app deals with data about students (including my kids!), it’s important to me that every user’s data is protected, so that users can only view their own information. When I designed the system, I picked a shared Postgres schema (i.
Read MoreJuly 30, 2022 » Tobias McNulty » [Archived Version]
When setting up a GitHub Actions workflow for the repo that deploys this site, I noticed the pre-commit action for GitHub Actions is deprecated, and also doesn’t cache the installation of pre-commit itself. As a workaround, you can easily use the package dependency caching in actions/setup-python to cache the pre-commit installation and a custom actions/cache to cache the pre-commit cache itself (~/.cache/pre-commit/). First, update or create requirements.txt with the current version of p…
Read MoreJuly 28, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I pulled out code from homeschool application and started a new open source project for a portion that I thought would be useful for others. The new package, which I have called django-denied, is a way of handling authorization in your Django apps.
Read MoreJuly 28, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I pulled out code from homeschool application and started a new open source project for a portion that I thought would be useful for others. The new package, which I have called django-denied, is a way of handling authorization in your Django apps.
Read MoreJuly 21, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we created a new model for the teacher checklist feature that I recently added to my homeschool app. This new checklist model will enable users to filter out courses that appear on a teacher’s checklist.
Read MoreJuly 21, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we created a new model for the teacher checklist feature that I recently added to my homeschool app. This new checklist model will enable users to filter out courses that appear on a teacher’s checklist.
Read MoreJuly 20, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
A discussion of Django REST Framework, how it integrates with traditional Django, and its core features.
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