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Watermarking photos? “I can do that in Python!”

By on 24 June 2019

My wife is setting up a business from home and wanted to protect photos of her work submitted to social media sites and the web in general. “I can do that using Python!”, I exclaimed, thinking I had seen a tutorial showing how ages ago. Laptop open, I set to work and found my bookmarked tutorial. It was using OpenCV2 and even after ~70 odd days of my #100DaysOfCode journey, I didn’t really understand it well enough to configure it myself if I had to make changes. (OpenCV is on my list of things to do after my #100Days). I remembered reading about Pillow, or PIL as it is sometimes known, and started to read the docs for it. Challenge to myself accepted!

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How to Create and Serve Zipfiles from Django

By on 8 May 2019

We added support to our platfom for bulk downloading of all your code submissions. This feature required creating and serving up zipfiles through Django. In this article I show you how to do it creating a simple Django app collecting code snippets through the admin interface, and serving them up in a zipfile via a download endpoint. Let’s dive straight in …

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Building a Python Tips API with Django REST Framework and Deploying it to Digital Ocean

By on 5 March 2019

In this article I will show you how to build a simple API for our growing collection of Python tips. First we make a simple Django app, defining the model. Next we use Django REST Framework to make an API supporting common CRUD operations. Then we will test it out using curl, Postman and Django REST’s browser front-end. Lastly we deploy the API to Digital Ocean so we can start using it via our Slack with a Slash Command, which I will cover in the next article. Sounds exciting? You bet it is! Let’s jump straight in!