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Job Queues and Workers in Django

Oct. 6, 2022 » Honeybadger Developer Blog (Django Articles) » [Archived Version]

Job queues are a powerful tool for processing background work in your Django applications. This article teaches about job queues and workers—and how to implement them with Django Q and Celery.

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Heroku Stack Upgrade - Building SaaS #147

Oct. 6, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, I did some upgrades. We upgraded the app to the latest Heroku stack, upgraded htmx to the latest version, then worked on a small feature to add an empty state to a page when there is no useful data to display.

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How to Safely Pass Data to JavaScript in a Django Template

Oct. 5, 2022 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

You want to pass your data from your Django view to JavaScript, in your template. And, you want to do it securely, with no risk of accidentally allowing malicious code injection. Great, this is the post for you! We’re going to look at the problems with templating JavaScript, then …

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How to Safely Pass Data to JavaScript in a Django Template

Oct. 5, 2022 » Adam Johnson » [Archived Version]

You want to pass your data from your Django view to JavaScript, in your template. And, you want to do it securely, with no risk of accidentally allowing malicious code injection. Great, this is the post for you! We’re going to look at the problems with templating JavaScript, then …

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Episode 17 - Accepting Files

Oct. 4, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

On this episode, we’re going to dig into file management. Unlike the static files that you create for the app yourself, you may want your app to accept files from your users. Profile pictures are a good example of user files. You’ll see how Django handles those kinds of files and how to deal with them safely. Listen at djangoriffs.com or with the player below. Last Episode On the last episode, we looked at how to manage settings on your Django site.

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JavaScript FormData - Building SaaS with Python and Django #146

Sept. 29, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we finished off one of the dynamic features of my homeschool app that required working with some JavaScript. I showed off what I learned about some of my mistakes from the previous week, and we completed the feature and tested things out.

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JavaScript FormData - Building SaaS #146

Sept. 29, 2022 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we finished off one of the dynamic features of my homeschool app that required working with some JavaScript. I showed off what I learned about some of my mistakes from the previous week, and we completed the feature and tested things out.

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DjangoCon Europe 2022 - Kojo Idrissa

Sept. 28, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Kojo gave the Keynote at DjangoCon Europe 2022 and is a prolific public speaker. He is a software engineer at RevSys and Lightning Talks Chair at DjangoCon US 2022 as well. We discuss the various contributions to Django and why it's not all about code.

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My essential guidelines for better Django development

Sept. 28, 2022 » /var/ - django » [Archived Version]

A list of guidelines that I follow in every non-toy Django project I develop

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On joining as an existing Engineering Team

Sept. 24, 2022 » Instawork Engineering » [Archived Version]

It was March 2021. We were struggling to keep our start-up afloat. Stateoftheart.ai was a platform to facilitate AI research that we have been working on for over 2 years. The core team was Andres and Toño, PhDs from MIT leading us in terms of product and AI, me (Hugo) leading the overall technology, Lalo mostly guiding UI/UX and frontend efforts, and Jorge our more versatile engineer helping us in all fronts.As a team passionate for AI and Tech, our main motivation was to create something usef…

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