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More Batteries Please

March 3, 2023 » Carlton's latest posts. » [Archived Version]

I was rueing the lack of an HTTP parser in the Python stdlib, under the hashtag #MoreBatteries. Brett Cannon asked why I thought that belonged. So… One of my main companions when learning Python was Doug Hellmann’s Python Module of the Week series which became the Python Standard Library by Example book, and was ultimately updated for Python 3. I was primarily working in other languages at the time, but was able to smuggle in Python for things like automation scripts, and test harnesses, and …

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Django: How to profile and improve startup time

March 2, 2023 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

Your Django project’s startup time impacts how smooth it is to work with. Django has to restart your project every time you run a management command and when runserver reloads. This involves importing all your apps, and thus all the modules that they import. As you add more code …

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Inventory Management / Custom 404 page / Go gqlgen - Building SaaS #154

March 2, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I did another Exercism problem in Python which focused on working with dictionaries. Once the exercise was complete, we worked on the homeschool app and created a custom 404 page so that Django would render something beyond a plain page. After working on Django, I did something totally different and worked on some Go code and used gqlgen to create a GraphQL service with generated code produced via a GraphQL schema.

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Inventory Management / Custom 404 page / Go gqlgen - Building SaaS #154

March 2, 2023 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I did another Exercism problem in Python which focused on working with dictionaries. Once the exercise was complete, we worked on the homeschool app and created a custom 404 page so that Django would render something beyond a plain page. After working on Django, I did something totally different and worked on some Go code and used gqlgen to create a GraphQL service with generated code produced via a GraphQL schema.

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Deploying a Django App to Azure App Service

Feb. 28, 2023 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]

This tutorial looks at how to deploy a Django application to Azure App Service.

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Full-Scale Digitalization for Mortgage Lenders: Why Bother?

Feb. 27, 2023 » Software Development Blog & IT Tech Insights | Django Stars » [Archived Version]

Buying a house is one of life’s most exciting projects. Yet taking out a mortgage is stressful, especially if a person turns to traditional mortgage companies. Comparing rates, filling out forms, organizing documents, and waiting weeks for a decision is exhausting. As a result, this decreases the conversion rate for closed deals. With the rise […] The post Full-Scale Digitalization for Mortgage Lenders: Why Bother? appeared first on Software Development Blog & IT Tech Insights |…

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Django News - Django 4.2 beta 1 released - Feb 24th 2023

Feb. 24, 2023 » Django News » [Archived Version]

News Django 4.2 beta 1 released Django 4.2 beta 1 is now available. It represents the second stage in the 4.2 release cycle and is an opportunity for you to try out the changes coming in Django 4.2. djangoproject.com Google Summer of Code: Django 2023 Django was once again selected for Google's Summer of Code this year. This program has directly led to real improvements in frameworks over the year. You can learn more about mentorship and a…

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devdata - Improving developer velocity and experience

Feb. 23, 2023 » REVSYS Blog » [Archived Version]

devdata - Improving developer velocity and experience

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How to migrate from Django’s PostgreSQL CI Fields to use a case-insensitive collation

Feb. 23, 2023 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

If you upgrade to Django 4.2, you may see system check warnings like: example.User.email: (fields.W906) django.contrib.postgres.fields.CIEmailField is deprecated. Support for it (except in historical migrations) will be removed in Django 5.1. HINT: Use EmailField(db_collation="…") with a case-insensitive non-deterministic collation instead …

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Deploying Django to Production

Feb. 23, 2023 » Django Beats » [Archived Version]

This post is about providing some guidance on how to make your simple Django app production-ready and deploying to Fly.io. Django on Fly.io is pretty sweet! Check it out: you can be up and running on Fly.io in just minutes. The first Django app I ever created was a simple Blog back in 2015, during a Django Girls event in Brazil. Ever since then, I’ve created and deployed many other Django applications but the deployment process was never so easy as it was with Fly.io! I’m super exc…

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