Watch here: Listen here: This week we talk with James Dycus about his journey from teacher to Python software developer. We talk about his background as a teacher and how het got into Python.  How he joined our PDM program a few months ago and the amazing growth he has experienced since by building out a mature real world application using Django We talk about the idea behind his app, something he always wanted to build and now has accomplished, a functional MVP on the brink of being officially launched The app (product) addresses an important need in society: supporting men with menta ..read more

Watch here: Or listen here: He’s back! Django by Example book author Antonio Melé Not only that, we did this interview in person at a cafeteria on the beach   In this episode he shares his 10 favorite Django plugins 1. Django Debug Toolbar 2. Django REST Framework 3. Django Channels 4. Django Celery 5. Django Extensions 6. Django allauth and social-auth 7. Django Import Export 8. Django Sentry 9. Django Easy Thumbnails / Imagekit 10. Django-parler Of course we also asked him what he’s reading at the moment:  – Nudge ..read more

This post first appeared as an email on our friends list. We decided to publish it here because the question is still commonly asked The other day I did a presentation on Django class based vs function based views. (Warning: this post is opinionated ) Also if you’re not into Django don’t stop reading just yet, because there are parallels with common software design patterns you might find interesting. Here is a summary of interesting things I presented (and credit to Luke Plant’s Django Views the Right Way for cementing what I already started to se ..read more

Listen here: This week we have Antonio Melé on the show, CTO & co-founder at Nucoro and author of Django 4 by Example. We talk about: – His day to day at Nucoro. – Why he chose Django as a web framework and how he uses it at the company. – What inspired him to write a highly practical (dense) book on Django. – Some challenges he faced (and faces) with writing a “colossal” Django book – Tips on learning new (complex) technologies. – What adjacent skills are most important for the Django developer. – Class based vs function based views? (Yes, we had to ask him haha) – And more … E ..read more

Django – The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines – indeed! We managed to get a simple MVP out in just 4 weeks using our JIT learning approach … In an effort to teach Julian Django, we figured we’d “eat our own dog food” and “learn by building”! As always though, the hard part is figuring out what to build! Again, eating our own dog food, we asked ourselves: “What sucks about the admin work we do here at Pybites day-to-day?” We realised that the tooling we used had become a little bloated, slow, had a lack of integration and was just far too tedious to use. Many tools th ..read more

In this article I will show you how to make a beautiful yet simple graph using Django + Chart.js.  The code for this project is here. Getting the data We are going to plot the number of Bite exercises that get completed per month on our platform.  For this I exported the live data from the corresponding table in our database using this handy Postgres command: postgres@0:pybites> \copy (select * from bites_table) to '~/Downloads/bites.csv' WITH (FORMAT CSV, HEADER) This will export the content of the table to a csv file. Setting up Django Next we will make a Django project and a ..read more

Listen now: In this episode we tell the story about Pybites CMS, our new powertool we use to better streamline our business. We tell why we built it, how it was an opportunity for Julian to brush up his coding skills, how we applied the PDM philosophy of learning by building, scratching your own itch. Join our Facebook group here (live training coming soon!): https://www.facebook.com/groups/pybites And if you want to take your Python and dev skills to the next level, check out our PDM coaching program here: https://pybit.es/catalogue/the-pdm-program/ We could not find the mentioned articl ..read more

My First Django Project Index The Django App I wanted to create What does it do? What’s next? Final Thoughts I’ve been writing code for about 15 years (on and off) and Python for about 4 or 5 years. With Python it’s mostly small scripts and such. I’ve never considered myself a ‘real programmer’ (Python or otherwise). About a year ago, I decided to change that (for Python at the very least) when I set out to do 100 Days Of Web in Python from Talk Python To Me. Part of that course were two sections taught by Bob regarding Django. I had tried learn Flask before and found it … overwhelming to sa ..read more

Have you ever wanted to create awesome stuff with Django like making your own blog or any other app but don’t know where to start? Or are you tired of taking lazy tutorials? I found myself in the same situation but all it really takes is to get started with Pybites challenges, Stackoverflow and Github. My story I’ve been “learning” and “programming” in Python for a while now, but I still find it very difficult to build projects. I’ve always wanted to build because I think that I don’t have enough knowledge and experience to make them happen. I’ve learned enough to be able to help others in my ..read more

We added support to our platfom for bulk downloading of all your code submissions. This feature required creating and serving up zipfiles through Django. In this article I show you how to do it creating a simple Django app collecting code snippets through the admin interface, and serving them up in a zipfile via a download endpoint. Let’s dive straight in … Setup First we make a virtual env, set a secret key in our venv and install Django: [bobbelderbos@imac code]$ mkdir django-archive [bobbelderbos@imac code]$ cd $_ [bobbelderbos@imac django-archive]$ python3.7 -m venv venv [bobbelderbos@im ..read more