I have a few Django apps in a Django project. I used factory_boy to mock a bunch of the data, but I have a few hundred rows of accurate data in my production database. It made sense to work on a copy of that data as it contains no sensitive …
I recently added sorl-thumbnail to a project for creating smaller image files. I chose to configure with a Redis Key-Value Store, as I’ve heard Redis is super hip, but ran into trouble during deployment.
In this post, I’ll document how I set up Redis locally with Docker, then …
I ran into a problem recently when trying to reconfigure my Django project’s database.
I had a DateTimeField on my model that I was updating to have null=True and blank=True.
There were no rows in this table. I was able to make the migrations, but then ran …
Let's find out where that database is located!
So you’ve been frantic as you try to fix a bug. You get lost in the work and totally forget where you are. All of a sudden… SUCCESS! It works!
Amazing.
But oh no, you just put your secrets into a tracked file. What to do, what to do …
Some thoughts on learning and advancing your web development skills.
Here's how I embed videos into one of my Django projects.
Some thoughts on taking the next step to learn Django if you can't find what you're looking for in the documentation.
If you want to send emails with long text from your Django application, you don't have to store all of the text in your views. You can make your own email templates!
How to restrict button display and access to a view to only superusers in Django.
To help save you time, I want to outline some of the major differences I’ve run into while learning Django.