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Author Tim Schilling

Django Cairn - A collection of Django knowledge

March 19, 2023 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

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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Plotting the trail for Django Cairn

March 19, 2023 » Better Simple » [Archived Version]

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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