April 3, 2017 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
Step-by-step how-to to use uWSGI with python3.6 for Ubuntu 16.10/17.04.
Read MoreFeb. 17, 2017 » Luke Plant » [Archived Version]
Some lessons from the recent WordPress vulnerability
Read MoreFeb. 14, 2017 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
College Conductor gives educational consultants and counselors access to the information of thousands of U.S. colleges and universities. The most natural method to find these schools is through search. Since College Conductor keeps up with the latest versions of Django, I was able to add search by using PostgreSQL’s full text search that is exposed to the Django ORM. The search features are not perfect, but they provide results quickly and avoid bringing in a more targeted tool like Elast…
Read MoreFeb. 7, 2017 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
The last Rollbar post that I made covered how to integrate Rollbar into your Ember application. As a reminder, Rollbar is a service that let’s you record your errors wherever they happen. In that original post, I didn’t cover how to include Rollbar in a Django application because the Rollbar team does a great job of that in their own documentation. But what happens when you want to do asynchronous task management with Celery in your Django app?
Read MoreJan. 10, 2017 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
I’m a big proponent of using a framework to reduce the time required to make something useful. Occasionally, using a framework means that developers must explore to understand what is possible. This truth is even more evident when there are layers of extensions to achieve a desired result. For instance, College Conductor is driving an EmberJS app with a JSON API powered by Django. The API uses the excellent Django REST Framework and the DRF JSON API extension.
Read MoreDec. 28, 2016 » REVSYS Blog » [Archived Version]
Python 3 run command over SSH
Read MoreNov. 22, 2016 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
Videos from Django Under the Hood 2016 are up - check ’em out! As usual, the conference was amazing and the content was fantastic. I really enjoyed all the talks, and they’re all worth your time to talk. Three in particular stood out to me as exceptional highlights: Ana’s talk on Testing in Django is the single best talk on effective testing of Django apps I’ve ever seen. I really like her technique of explaining Django’s testing APIs by looking at how they changed…
Read MoreSept. 12, 2016 » /var/ - django » [Archived Version]
How to split a query containing spaces into individual model fields
Read MoreSept. 11, 2016 » Markus Holtermann » [Archived Version]
Most websites require some kind of authentication. Email & password is common but sometimes not enough. In those cases 2FA adds an additional security layer.
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