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When developing a web app how often do you check the emails you send are all working properly? Not as often as your web pages, right?
Here at Vinta we believe that programmers, not processes, nor code, are the most important assets on software engineering. Due to that, we believe in using every tool available in order to facilitate our programmers' lives.
While programming is about, in some way, doing code to transform data, metaprogramming can be seen as the task of doing code to change code. This category is often used to help programmers to enhance the readability and maintainability of the code.
When developing applications that have specific needs for running asynchronous tasks outside the web application, it is common to adopt a task queue such as Celery. This allows, for example, for the server to start an asynchronous task for heavyweight processing, and then return an answer.
There are many ways to handle permissions in a project. For instance we may have model level permissions, object level permissions, fine grained user permission or role based. Either way we don't need to write any of those from scratch, Django ecosystem has a vast amount of permission handling apps
Sending e-mails from a Django project? Want to use HTML and CSS or have other specific needs? These Django apps might help you:
A common problem appears when uploading large files to Heroku. Every request made to Heroku must last less than 30 seconds or it will get terminated, when uploading large files, 30 seconds might not be enough. Here is how to circumvent that with Amazon S3
There are some open-source Django apps that make our lives as Django developers easier, but sometimes we don't even know they exist! Good third-party apps can give you new features at little expense, make your tests easier or even improve the performance of your deployment process.
Classy Django REST Framework, a web-based documentation with flattened information about Django REST Framework's class-based views and serializers. It is heavily based on Classy Class-based View and users familiar with it will feel right at home.
This is the part 2 of the guide on how to configure a Django 1.8 project with Sass (django-libsass), Bower (django-bower) and django-compressor.
This is a quick guide on how to configure a Django 1.8 project with Sass (django-libsass), Bower (django-bower) and django-compressor (which combine static files and minificate them).
It’s common among web developers, and mainly the ones who are developing web APIs, to face problems related to CORS. Wanna know how to use CORS in Django and understand better how it works under the hood? Don't worry. We will explain.