Sometimes we need to create a secret key, but we don’t want to go to a website and generate it. While I’m sure those websites are generally good guys – it only takes one bad guy stealing secret keys and… Read More »Create a Django Secret Key in your Terminal
Say you have a model that handles images like this: To get it showing in your template you need these settings (here all files go into the media directory): THEN in your main urls.py file you need this line so… Read More »Displaying uploaded images in Django
Recently I had the following model that held a list of countries: And my admin file was like this: Problem was in the Django Admin the incorrect plural was rendered: Now as a person of style and class it is… Read More »Adjusting the Plural of a Model in Django Admin
I was recently interviewed by Nick Janetakis from the Running in Production podcast to discuss the software stack I’m using for HorseRecords.info. Check it out here: HorseRecords interviewed by Running in Production 6:11 – About 60ish users signed up about a… Read More »A SaaS stack using Django
We’ve all wanted to do it – to just have a table sortable on the front end. You click on the column and the table sorts to that column. We don’t want to write heaps of code on the back… Read More »Making HTML tables sortable without backend shenanigans
On my site I wanted visitors to the home page to be immediately redirected to the member’s area if they were already logged in. This saves them a click or two and gets them straight down to business, as opposed… Read More »Redirecting an already logged in user in Django using Class Based Views
Retool is a website application that allows you to quickly create dashboards and management information system (MIS) reports. The dashboards are intended for internal use – you don’t show them to the public. I use it because it can quickly… Read More »Integrating Django Rest Framework and Retool
So I wanted to add a sitemap to my site – and I went looking for a plugin to do it for me. But I don’t need a plugin! Why? Because Django has sitemap generation built into the framework! Brilliant!… Read More »Creating Sitemaps in Django
Two days ago I launched HorseRecords.info, the Horse Husbandry app that I had been working on for the last two years. It is a tool to help people manage their horses. The market is horse owners, and while I am… Read More »What I learned in the first 2 days of launching my SaaS Startup
Look, we all do it. It’s our guilty little secret as programmers. Yes, we still use the print() statement for debugging out to the console. Well now your shame can be a little prettier! Introducing the rich library! Install with… Read More »Super charge your Print statements with rich!