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Dec. 26, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we added the background task that does web scraping to collect data from a third party service. We wrote a Celery task and used requests and Beautiful Soup to handle all the scraping.
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In this stream episode, we added our third party integration (Prompt) to the page where school information is displayed. This involved some Django model changes, view additions, and template development.
Read MoreDec. 13, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
What happens when you take a novice web developer and put him in front of an audience equipped with the Django tutorial only? That’s what we did at Python Frederick. The conversation and learning that resulted was awesome. Check out the video on YouTube to see what you can learn too! Our presenter was Patrick Pierson. Patrick works for IronNet Cybersecurity as a Senior Software Engineer. He uses Python daily to deploy AWS resources and test the IronNet platform.
Read MoreDec. 5, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this stream episode, we started a new integration with a 3rd party service. We created the database model to store information related to the service and looked at how we’re going to pull all the pieces together.
Read MoreNov. 29, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this stream episode, we took some new data from a new Django database model, and I showed how to add that data to different templates. Along the way, we wrote automated tests and generated a database migration.
Read MoreNov. 22, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we added Celery beat to College Conductor. Celery beat is the scheduler for the Celery worker system. I walked through how to test new infrastructure, confirmed that Celery beat worked, then showed how to add it to Ansible, the infrastructure deployment tool.
Read MoreNov. 19, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
I started streaming on Twitch. The stream covers how to build a Software as a Service (SaaS) with Python using Django. The stream runs at 9pm Eastern time on Wednesday most weeks. I show developers how to build a site that is more complex than a tutorial. We look at: Designing and creating pages for users How to create automated tests for the code Making background jobs that handle business processes Deploying code and infrastructure development During the stream, we’re working on Col…
Read MoreNov. 8, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this stream episode, I built a Django model that would allow my SaaS app (College Conductor) to deal with multiple Stripe plans. After building the model, we updated the landing page to display a different plan based on the database data from the model.
Read MoreOct. 31, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I took data that we collected from a web scraping task built in the first stream and created a report email that could be sent to the site admin.
Read MoreOct. 25, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
This was the first episode and it was an experiment in streaming. In future episodes, I’ve greatly improved audio and video settings. I’d suggest checking those out.
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