Frank Wiles

Keeping Django Models Ordered

How to smartly keep a set of Django ORM objects in order for drag-n-drop like situations.

Lacey Henschel

Tips for Using Django's ManyToManyField

ManyToManyFields confuse a lot of people. The way you relate objects to each other is just different enough from dealing with ForeignKeys and just uncommon enough in day-to-day Django development that it's easy to forget all the little tricks for dealing with them.

Flavio Curella

Pro-Tip - Slugs as primary keys

A very common pattern in a Django Project is to have some kind of 'model-type' relationship, where you have some kind of object that can only belong to one of the types defined in the database.

Flavio Curella

Pro-Tip - Sentinel values in Python

It is often necessary to differentiate between an argument that has not been provided, and an argument provided with the value `None`. For that purpose, we create what's called a 'sentinel value'.

Lacey Henschel

Today I Learned - Celery and Django and Docker: Oh My!

In this post, you will learn how to create a Celery task inside a Django project in a Docker container. Sounds awesome, right?

Frank Wiles

pytest support for django-test-plus

django-test-plus has long been a useful helper library with Django. Now we've added some simple pytest fixture support to make it even more useful!

Flavio Curella

Today I Learned - Caching uuid's for the win!

More and more often, we see schema designs that use UUIDs as primary keys. That's a valid choice if you're concerned about sharding and partitioning your database, but it has its own drawbacks, sometimes in unexpected places.

Frank Wiles

Today I Learned - Testing import file mismatch

Ran into a weird error with coverage, pytest, and Travis today and wanted to document an easy fix when you get a 'import file mistmatch' error from pip packages you do not control.

Stephen Spencer

Pro-Tip - What the, Kubernetes! -- part 1

Overcoming the read-only configMap with Helm

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