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| Author | Tim Schilling |
March 19, 2023 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]
First of all, big thank you to Dawn for suggesting people to write a year in review post. If you aren’t already following her, you should. Since I didn’t have goals set for 2022, it’s hard to qualify the year as anything other than itself. Looking back at it, I feel content and proud for the most part. To make things easier, here’s a table of contents for navigating this post. Personal 5 year anniversary Beef and Roland Curt’s sickness and death Volleyball sea…
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If you’re looking for questions to ask a software company, then here are a few to get you started. Keep in mind, these are not meant as “gotcha” questions. The point of them is to understand the company you would be joining, so you can make the best decision possible. What does the team do to delivery quality software? Press for information on the software development lifecycle (SDLC). Ask what your role would be in each of these phases. The goal here is to know how the team writes software,…
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First, I want to say I love djangopackages.com. I direct people to it all the time! It provides breakdowns on a variety of Django related packages. I struggle to keep up with all the new libraries folks are building or have built, but the site helps me discover them. Similarly, our community has a lot of published knowledge on the web. If we consider DjangoCon talks alone, there’s hundreds of videos out there. I would benefit immensely from having a categorized collection of those videos. Mix …
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This high-level post will go over how I design Django projects. The goal is to consider every action the application will need and determine what is needed to implement those actions. We’ll encounter some hand-waving around the details, but that’s fine. We can’t know everything. And if we did, why are we bothering with this? The benefit of this exercise is to realize a more complete understanding of the project and to create an outline of what needs to be implemented. An outline makes it much…
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