Hopefully you use a specialised document management store like Mayan, Blitdb or a file sharing site like box or dropbox if that is the focus of your project. However if you have a few fields in your django project that require a filefield or imagefield that can be classed as confidential then this is the […]
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A mac is setup for the default user and usually requires a few things to make it into a development machine. It is certain that a fresh ubuntu install is more developer focused than a macbook. In this post I will walk you though what I do when setting up a new macbook for development. […]
I have never liked creating reports and custom tables based on filters for end users. I don’t think any developer does. It feels like a very generic task and can be achieved (more) easily and with greater agility with the use of SQL. The group_by does not really exist in django. It smartly hides that from […]
I’ve been building a web app. For simplicity sake, I have been making use of normal bootstrap tables and Django’s ListView. It works well, with my tests but it creates tables that are plain that lack search and sorting. Although pagination works nicely. There comes a time when you need to get professional and add […]
I almost fell into a trap… I have been developing a new product that sends emails to certain manager users when certain events happen. I am manually handling these tasks with ye old send_email. I also wanted to bring in a facebook/twitter style notifications so managers can see things that require their attention when logging […]