Django – The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines – indeed! We managed to get a simple MVP out in just 4 weeks using our JIT learning approach … In an effort to teach Julian Django, we figured we’d “eat our own dog food” and “learn by building”! As always though, the hard part is… Continue reading What we learned from building our own CMS using Django
Articles on Django
Learn by building, how we built our own collaboration tool in Django
By PyBites Team on 19 May 2022
Listen now: In this episode we tell the story about Pybites CMS, our new powertool we use to better streamline our business. We tell why we built it, how it was an opportunity for Julian to brush up his coding skills, how we applied the PDM philosophy of learning by building, scratching your own itch.… Continue reading Learn by building, how we built our own collaboration tool in Django
Learn FastAPI through building a simple food tracker
By PyBites Team on 12 May 2022
If you’re doing any type of web development in Python, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about FastAPI by now. If not, go check it out now. It’s performant, intuitive and time saving (thanks to Pydantic / type hinting) and it supports API standards, e.g. OpenAPI (previously Swagger). You cannot leave this powerful framework out of your… Continue reading Learn FastAPI through building a simple food tracker
How to handle environment variables in Python
By Bob Belderbos on 31 August 2021
In this article I will share 3 libraries I often use to isolate my environment variables from production code. Why is this important? Separate config from code As we can read in The Twelve-Factor App / III. Config: Apps sometimes store config as constants in the code. This is a violation of twelve-factor, which requires strict… Continue reading How to handle environment variables in Python
5 Helpful Python Decorator Use Cases
By Bob Belderbos on 3 August 2021
Some time ago I asked on Twitter: I was curious what you use #Python decorators for? And I got quite an amazing / insightful response: The obvious next step for me was to look at some examples / use cases. So below are 5 useful applications of decorators. Study them, then apply similar things to… Continue reading 5 Helpful Python Decorator Use Cases
Building a Stadia Tracker Site Using Django
By Ryan Cheley on 25 April 2020
Building my first Django Site and learning so much more than Django
Dropping Tutorial Paralysis, Building a Django Blog From Scratch
By Peter Babalola on 21 April 2020
Have you ever wanted to create awesome stuff with Django like making your own blog or any other app but don’t know where to start? Or are you tired of taking lazy tutorials?
Refactoring Opportunities That Will Boost the Quality of Your Code
By Bob Belderbos on 19 April 2020
Refactoring is all about making your code more maintainable. In this article I will provide you with Python and generic software tips to write better code.
PyCon ES 2019 Alicante Highlights
By Bob Belderbos on 8 October 2019
Last weekend it was Pycon time again, my 6th one so far. This time closer to home: Alicante. I had an awesome time, meeting a lot of nice people, watching interesting talks and getting inspired overall to keep learning more Python. In this post I share 10 highlights, but keep in mind this is a selection only, there are quite a few more talks I want to check out once they appear on Youtube …
How to Create and Serve Zipfiles from Django
By Bob Belderbos 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 …