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!
Recently I found the need to access a page external to my app and get the links of all the images for subsequent downloading. I found some code readily enough but it was for Python 2.7 – here is the… Read More »How to get all the image links on an external page using Python
Sometimes you may wish to raise a 404 in the middle of a class based view. Perhaps you determine in the middle of get_context_data() that you don’t want this user accessing the object for some reason. Consider a horse stable,… Read More »Raising a 404 error from a Class Based View in Django
When optimising your site for mobile, sometimes you need margins that only apply at certain screen sizes. For example I have this on the desktop size of my website HorseRecords: And on mobile it goes to this: There is no… Read More »Adding margins in Bootstrap on mobile screens only
Say you have a button that you want people to click to submit a form. Like this one: And you want to have the text change when they click the button and you are doing some form processing (like sending… Read More »Changing button text on click – as well as reducing form double clicks
Every Django Application has the magnificent Django Admin built in enabling you to access your database tables in a very nice way. The url is typically admin/ The problem is that hackers also know the default admin url for a… Read More »Securing your Django Admin by using a HoneyPot
Sometimes you have large data sets. Most of the time this makes Django slow. For example there are 17,000 suburbs in Australia – so having an address with a foreign key to suburb is going to create slowness in forms… Read More »Choose, and choose quickly: Optimising ModelChoiceField
Yes. Yes you should. There is almost no reason not to, and plenty of reasons why it’s the right choice. Background A universally unique identifier (UUID) is a 128-bit number used to identify information in computer systems. When generated according… Read More »Should I use UUIDs as my model ID in Django?