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Auphonic - Georg Holzmann

June 26, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Georg Holzmann is the founder of Auphonic, a leading provider of automated audio post-production powered by Python and Django.

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In the Guts of a Shiv App - Building SaaS #24

June 20, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we got our hands dirty with the Django Shiv app that we build to work out issues with finding templates and other settings problems.

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DjangoCon US 2019 - Jessica Deaton

June 19, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Jessica Deaton is a conference co-chair for DjangoCon US 2019 and a board member of the Django Software Foundation. We discuss how her involvement grew in the Django community and how others can become more involved too.

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Django Admin

June 12, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

The built-in Admin app is one of Django's killer features but often asked to do too much. In this episode we discuss how to effectively use and customize the admin.

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Deployments

June 5, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

How to deploy a website on Django as well as our thoughts on the multiple hosting options available.

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Teaching Python - Nicholas Tollervey

May 29, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Nicholas Tollervey has played a major role in how Python is taught to millions of students. A former music teacher turned software developer, he worked on the BBC micro:bit project that put a computing device in the hands of a million 11-12 year olds in the UK. He's also the creator of the Mu editor for Python beginners, CodeGrades, and many other projects.

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Django Tips: Recovering Gracefully From ORM Errors

May 29, 2019 » Valentino Gagliardi - Django RSS Feed » [Archived Version]

Learn how to recover from ORM errors in Django and make your views more robust with try/except and a nice Django shortcut: get_object_or_404

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Improving UI performance with Django’s Prefetch

May 28, 2019 » Instawork Engineering » [Archived Version]

Improving UI performance with Django’s Prefetch ObjectAs an engineer at Instawork, it’s my responsibility to make sure our web UI loads quickly to provide a great user experience. It can be hard to keep a page fast as we add features and display more information. I recently worked on such a page, which gave me an opportunity to learn about Django’s tools for optimizing database query performance.A core feature of Instawork is connecting our business partners with qualified hospitality professio…

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Upgrade PostgreSQL from 10 to 11 on Ubuntu 19.04

May 27, 2019 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

Howto guide for upgrading PostgreSQL from version 10 to 11 on Ubuntu, after its upgrade from version 18.10 to 19.04 (Disco Dingo).

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Authentication

May 22, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

How to add user authentication to a Django website or API. Topics include sessions, tokens, JWTs, Social/OAuth, and more.

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