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Jan. 14, 2021 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I fixed some critical issues that my customer discovered. My customer is putting the app through its real paces for a school year and since this is the first run, there were bound to be some bugs. We began with an explanation of the issues that my customer encountered. The problems related to scheduling. First, the daily page skipped a task and showed the task that was meant for two days in the future.
Read MoreJan. 11, 2021 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
On this episode, we will investigate Django middleware and see where it goes in your project. In the process, you’ll see why middleware is useful and how you can work with it. Listen at djangoriffs.com. Last Episode On the last episode, we’re going to look at working with users in a Django project. We’ll see Django’s tools for identifying users and checking what those users are permitted to do on your website.
Read MoreJan. 7, 2021 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I worked on the sign up confirmation email design. We customized the template and used MailHog to test the flow and see how the email appeared. After working on the email design, we switched to the landing page of the site to work on the pricing information. I started the stream by explaining that I’m working through some final tasks before launching the app more publicly. I covered why I am planning to send a sign up email and why I want to customize it.
Read MoreJan. 6, 2021 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In the previous Understand Django article, I described how Django gives us tools to run code for any request using the middleware system. Our next focus will be on static files. Static files are vital to your application, but they have little to do with Python code. We’ll see what they are and what they do. From Browser To DjangoURLs Lead The WayViews On ViewsTemplates For User InterfacesUser Interaction With FormsStore Data With ModelsAdminister All The ThingsAnatomy Of An ApplicationUse…
Read MoreDec. 31, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I integrated customer documentation into the app. I showed how to build Sphinx documentation into a Django project, then created a help view to link to the docs. Finally, I added documentation building to the deployment process. I previously created a Sphinx documentation project to hold docs for my app, but I had not hooked the docs into my project yet. Before hooking it in, I explained how Sphinx works and how I customized the documentation to fit with my project.
Read MoreDec. 23, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I decided to redesign a portion of the application flow. I wasn’t pleased with how users would enroll students for their grades so I refactored the school year page into a flow that worked better. Note: My internet connection was not good during this stream. Thankfully, the audio is fine and reading code is very possible because the background doesn’t need to change much. My apologies for the low quality.
Read MoreDec. 17, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I returned to the onboarding flow and start to polish some of the extra pages. We filled the pages with special copy and a call to action to each page to help customers be successful. I started with the pages that displays the school years. We added a chunk of template from the onboarding process that asks the user to create a school year. I modified the template chunk to make it fit in the context of the page.
Read MoreDec. 16, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In the previous Understand Django article, we covered the built-in auth system. That article gave you a chance to see the User model, ways to login users with Django’s authentication tools, and the features that make the authorization controls work. In that topic, middleware came up as an integral component. Now we’re going to learn more about middleware and its function within a Django project. From Browser To DjangoURLs Lead The WayViews On ViewsTemplates For User InterfacesUser I…
Read MoreDec. 10, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I worked on feedback from my primary customer. We fixed a couple of issues that she reported, then moved on to more of the onboarding flow. Before getting to the code, we chatted about ways to learn to code. I linked to a popular book, Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, and some good web tutorials for learning Django. The first bit of customer feedback that I worked on was to add a back link from a course details to get a user back to the grade level that holds the course.
Read MoreDec. 6, 2020 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
How can you set up Tailwind CSS for your Django app on Heroku? In this article, we’ll see how I did exactly that recently. I have a side project that uses Tailwind CSS. To get started quickly, I used the version from a Content Delivery Network (CDN) as Tailwind describes in the documentation. This worked fine initially while I got my project started, but the CDN version is huge (around 3MB).
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