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Django Speed run

In video gaming culture a speed run is where someone tries to play a video game all the way through as fast as they can. Turns out this is a great way to practice! So we are going to be setting up a basic django app from scratch as fast as we can.

We want to get to the point where we do the following as fast as possible.

1. Create a project folder

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How to start a git-based project

If you already have a remote repository on gitlab or github

You will gather the "clone url" from the website and then use the following command.

git clone <clone url>

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Seed	Variant	Description
13032936	Bedrock	lots of biomes all around, with a savannah village close by
-4643289498761436768	Bedrock	Jungle with Portal and Cave near Spawn

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How I use git worktrees

What are git worktrees?

Git worktrees are a special feature of git that lets you checkout branches/commits into a folder.

How is this different that plain 'ol git checkout?

You can check each branch out into a separate folder. This means no more stashing/un-stashing or committing just to work on several branches at once.

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Common Django Pitfalls

This contains a collection of common errors people make when coding Django apps, and how to fix them.

Important Strategies for preventing pitfalls

1. Always do one thing at a time and test it. Make a single change, test it for errors, before moving on to the next thing.
2. When trying to fix an error, only change one thing at a time, If the error message does not change, undo that change and try something else.
3. If you discover you haven't saved a file, and that's causing an error, save the file and try again and pay attention to any new errors. The original error isn't worth worrying about until you have saved everything

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PostgreSQL Tips and Tricks

Checking to see if PostgreSQL is running:

Running these commands should tell you if postgres is running or not.

Ubuntu Linux:

sudo service postgresql status

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Make Tree

This problem was inspired by a Fun Fun Function video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7-N8R0-KY4

Write a recursive function makeTree(categories, parent) that takes an array of categories objects, each of which have an id property, and a parent property and returns a nested tree of those objects using the parent properties to construct the tree.

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VSCode Extentions I find to be valuable for JavaScript development

• Back and Forth
  • Adds backwards and forwards buttons to the toolbar in VSCode
  • https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=nick-rudenko.back-n-forth
• Bracket Pair Colorizer 2
  • Colors matching brackets so it's easier to tell which brackets match.
  • https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CoenraadS.bracket-pair-colorizer-2
• Babel Javascript
• A better syntax highlighter for JavaScript code

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#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys
import subprocess
import re
import logging
import argparse

# https://github.com/wooster/biplist (pip install biplist)
import biplist