Posts by Frank Wiles

Frank Wiles

devdata - Improving developer velocity and experience

Developers are the largest expense with software. Improving their productivity doesn't just make sense to the company's bottom line, but it improves morale as they no longer have to wade through a bunch of crap to get started on the job at hand. This data generation technique helps improve your developer experience and testing.

Frank Wiles

Pro-Tip - Breaking up django-ninja views

A simple import trick to make it easy to keep your django-ninja view functions in different Django apps and files.

Frank Wiles

Pro-Tip - Nullable DRF FloatFields and Javascript

Sometimes you want your FloatFields to be nullable, but your JS code isn't quite smart enough to handle it.

Frank Wiles

Pro-Tip - Helpful Shell alias to git repo root

I created a simple `r` shell alias that will take me to the root of the current git repository. As this is a common thing I need to do on my Mac BookPro when I've been exploring deep into a code base and now need to run some command at the root.

Frank Wiles

Keeping Django Models Ordered

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

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!

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.

Frank Wiles

Check This Out - Optimized Python

Smaller and faster Python 3.6.x images for you to take advantage of.

Frank Wiles

Pro-Tip - Python 3 run command over SSH

Sometimes you just need to run a command on a remote host with ssh and Python 3 without any real fuss. Here is the simplest way we have found to do that and retrieve the output. 

Frank Wiles

Pro-Tip - Python: atexit

Python's atexit handler is one of those things people should use more often.  Some developers aren't even aware that it exists and that makes me sad. 

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