When working with forms in Django, there might be instances where you need to pass additional variables into the form to render extra data. Sometimes you need to pass in variables to do things like limit the choices for a… Read More »Passing custom variables into Django Forms
From time to time we need content in a template to show from a certain date. An example would be a news article that needs to go live from the 4th of July, 2023. Here’s how to do it simply… Read More »Displaying Content Based on Date in Django
ChatGPT was released 30th November 2022 and since then it has taken the world by storm. I have been using it to build some Django code and I thought it would be nice to show you the prompts I’m working… Read More »How I am using ChatGPT to increase my productivity coding Django
Consider the case where you need the emails of all your customers. You might be doing this to set up a mailing list for your newsletter or as part of a marketing campaign. Here is the simplest way I’ve found.… Read More »How to quickly get a list of all users and their emails in Django using django-extensions
A customer of mine has a lot of animals and wanted to scan a QR code of each animal before working on it. The code would then take them straight to the animal’s data entry page. Let’s see how it’s… Read More »QR Codes in Django
On Oct 27th, 2022, I was featured on Django Chat – the largest Django podcast in the world. We discussed: Listen to the podcast here!
One of the easiest queues to implement in Django is Django-Q. It is straightforward to tell it to use your database for its management, rather than needing to go to Redis or Celery (although these options are available). You’ll find… Read More »How to find the number of items on the ORM queue using Django-Q
Django-Q is a native Django task-queue and scheduler. I like it because it can use your database as a data store rather than having to branch out to other tools like Redis. And while Django-Q can handle Redis – the… Read More »Installing a simple Queuing tool in Django
I was building a form today in django-unicorn and wanted to implement a radio button. This is how you do it: This will render to: The main trick for rendering radio buttons is to write unicorn:model=”new_event_frequency” in each radio html… Read More »Adding a radio button using django-unicorn
For those you run pipenv install django-unicorn And you get a dependency resolution conflict relating to orjson like this: Then you are probably running a 32 bit version of python. orjson needs a 64 bit version. To fix this I… Read More »Resolving orjson dependency conflict when installing django-unicorn in Windows