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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 […]

I have a requirement where entries created by users needs to be approved or rejected. Now this seems to be a common trait you can add to a model and something that needn’t be custom developed, a good use case for django behaviours I digged a bit deeper and found that there are generic workflow […]