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Semi-automated tasks - Building SaaS #11

Jan. 24, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we worked on a tool designed to help with backend manual tasks that would semi-automate the work. By automating some portion of the task, we’re able to make it way faster to complete.

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PyRoma 2019

Jan. 20, 2019 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

The first of the PyRoma (Python User Group of Rome, Italy) periodic meetings in 2019.

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Admin dashboards - Building SaaS #10

Jan. 16, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we started on a tools dashboard for admin-level users. We talked about Django’s auth module for handling access and how to protect views from unauthorized users.

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Local web development vs Vagrant vs Docker: What’s right for you?

Jan. 8, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

What tools do you use to build your web applications? Your choice matters a lot because you’ll spend a lot of time working in that environment. If you make a poor choice, you’ll be stuck with something suboptimal that can slow you down massively and make your project grind to a halt. If you make a harmonious choice, your tool will aide you on your development journey and let you crank out features to delight your customers.

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Finishing third party integration - Building SaaS #9

Jan. 3, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we finished off our integration with Prompt. To finish the integration, we changed the background web scraping task to send an email when changes happen. We also discussed how we’re going to build out an admin dashboard for managing back office processing.

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Setting up Stripe Connect with Django

Dec. 28, 2018 » TestDriven.io » [Archived Version]

This tutorial looks at how to integrate Stripe Connect into a Django application.

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Connecting third party services - Building SaaS #8

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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Displaying third party data - Building SaaS #7

Dec. 19, 2018 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

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.

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Django Tutorial Adventure Part 2

Dec. 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.

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Using Private Packages in Python

Dec. 10, 2018 » REVSYS Blog » [Archived Version]

Using Private Packages in Python

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