Dec. 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. 26, 2018 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]
A couple weeks ago I gave a talk about usernames at North Bay Python. The content came mostly from things I’ve learned in roughly 12 years of maintaining django-registration, which has taught me more than I ever wanted to know about how complex even “simple” things can be. I mentioned toward the beginning of the talk, though, that it wasn’t going to be one of those “falsehoods programmers believe about X” things. If … Read full entry
Read MoreNov. 26, 2018 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]
A couple weeks ago I gave a talk about usernames at North Bay Python. The content came mostly from things I’ve learned in roughly 12 years of maintaining django-registration, which has taught me more than I ever wanted to know about how complex even “simple” things can be. I mentioned toward the beginning of the talk, though, that it wasn’t going to be one of those “falsehoods programmers believe about X” things. If … Read full entry
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. 20, 2018 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]
If you’re not the sort of person who closely follows the internals of Django’s development, you might not know there’s a draft proposal to drastically change the project’s governance. It’s been getting discussion on GitHub and mailing lists, but I want to take some time today to walk through and explain what this proposal does and what problems it’s trying to solve. So. Let’s dive in. What’s wrong with Django? Django the web framework is…
Read MoreNov. 20, 2018 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]
If you’re not the sort of person who closely follows the internals of Django’s development, you might not know there’s a draft proposal to drastically change the project’s governance. It’s been getting discussion on GitHub and mailing lists, but I want to take some time today to walk through and explain what this proposal does and what problems it’s trying to solve. So. Let’s dive in. What’s wrong with Django? Django the web framework is…
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.
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