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Bob Belderbos

Bob studied business economics, but got fired up about programming early in his career. He taught himself web design / coding and started living his biggest passion: automate the boring stuff, making other people’s lives easier. Since then he has coded projects accruing millions in cost savings and built a coding platform that has taught Python to thousands of people worldwide. He deeply cares about helping other people succeed. His biggest win will be your next win!

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  • How to Use Pdb to Debug Your Code

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    6 min read

    The larger part of our coding time is spent reading and debugging code already written. For this Python’s pdb is an unmissable module in your Python toolbox. In this article I show you the most common options and some practical examples.

  • Learning Python Decorators by Example

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    Decorators are a sometimes overlooked feature and they might be hard to grasp for beginning Pythonistas. I agree with Aaron Maxwell that mastering them “can massively magnify the positive impact of the code you write”, so make sure you add them to your toolkit if not done so already. In this article I explain what they do, why you want to use them and give some practical examples.

  • PyBites Module of the Week: Openpyxl – Automate Excel!

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    You probably remember your first script. I remember the joy of discovering how I could let the machine automate something for me. It still gets me excited everyday. I played a bit with openpyxl yesterday. I used it to hack an Excel game for which I first used a macro. Not particularly useful but a nice exploration of this module.

  • Improve the Quality of Your Code with Better Code Hub

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    So you pushed your code to GitHub and deployed v1, congrats! But how maintainable is your code really? Do you have tests? Is your code modular? Are your methods short and concise? What if you could hit a button and a tool conveniently checks this for you? Free and integrated with GitHub? Enter Better Code Hub from Software Improvement Group …

  • Using Pillow to Create Nice Banners For Your Site

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    Running your site or business good chance you A. use promo material like banners and B. you make them manually with Photoshop, Gimp or what not. And yes for anything beyond the basics you probably need those programs. But what if you like to keep it simple and want to semi-automate things? Just an image and text on canvas? Enter Pillow – The friendly PIL fork, which makes this pretty easy. Come explore some of its capabilities with me in this article.

  • A Step by Step Guide to Implementing and Deploying Two-Phase Registration in Django

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    14 min read

    Two-phase registration, consisting of initial signup followed by a confirmation/activation email is a common piece for any web app. In this article I will guide you through setting this up in Django using the Django-registration plugin and Gmail for messaging. Then I show you how to deploy the app to Heroku.