jacobian

Where people struggle learning Django

Over the last 3 years or so I've helped a bunch of companies, small and large, switch to Django. As part of that, I've done a lot of teaching Django (and Python) to people new to the platform (and language). I'd estimate I've trained something around 200-250 people so far. These aren't people new to programming — indeed, almost all of them are were currently employed as software developers — but they were new to Python, or to Django, or to web development, or all three.

In doing so, I've observed some patterns about what works and what doesn't. Many (most) of the failings have been my own pedagogical failings, but as I've honed my coursework and my skill I'm seeing, time and again, certain ways that Django makes itself difficult to certain groups of users.

This document is my attempt at organizing some notes around what ways different groups struggle. It's not particularly actionable — I'm not making any arguments about what Django should or shouldn't do (at least

anvaka

I was playing with GitHub Archive recently. Out of curiosity I ran this query:

SELECT COUNT(repository_owner) as totalStars, repository_owner
FROM [githubarchive:github.timeline] 
WHERE type = 'WatchEvent'
GROUP BY repository_owner
ORDER BY totalStars DESC
LIMIT 1000

17twenty

a simple git branching model

This is a very simple git workflow. It (and variants) is in use by many people. I settled on it after using it very effectively at Athena. GitHub does something similar; Zach Holman mentioned it in this talk.

The gist

n1ywb

#!/usr/bin/env python
#
# Copyright 2012 by Jeff Laughlin Consulting LLC
# 
# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
# of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
# in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights
# to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell
# copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is
# furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

chadrien

<?php

App::uses('TrailingSlashUtil', 'Lib');
App::uses('Controller', 'Controller');

class AppCpontroller extends Controller {
  
  public function redirect ($url, $status = null, $exit = true) {
    $url = TrailingSlashRouter::url($url);
    

impressiver

# vim: ft=sh:ts=4:sw=4:autoindent:expandtab:
# Source: https://github.com/django/django/blob/stable/1.5.x/extras/django_bash_completion

# #########################################################################
# This bash script adds tab-completion feature to django-admin.py and
# manage.py.
#
# Testing it out without installing
# =================================
#

dvirsky

Creating a redis Module in 15 lines of code!

A quick guide to write a very very simple "ECHO" style module to redis and load it. It's not really useful of course, but the idea is to illustrate how little boilerplate it takes.

Step 1: open your favorite editor and write/paste the following code in a file called module.c

#include "redismodule.h"
/* ECHO <string> - Echo back a string sent from the client */
int EchoCommand(RedisModuleCtx *ctx, RedisModuleString **argv, int argc) {

jniltinho

#!/bin/bash
## Install .NET Core 2.0.0 SDK on Ubuntu 16.04 64Bits
## Author: Nilton OS www.linuxpro.com.br
## https://www.microsoft.com/net/core#linuxubuntu
## https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/publishing/apache-proxy
## https://medium.com/@renato.groffe/net-core-e-sql-server-em-linux-primeiros-passos-89a7cb475ebd
## Version 0.1


curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg

mdisec

# Nginx proxy for Elasticsearch + Kibana
#
# In this setup, we are password protecting the saving of dashboards. You may
# wish to extend the password protection to all paths.
#
# Even though these paths are being called as the result of an ajax request, the
# browser will prompt for a username/password on the first request
#
# If you use this, you'll want to point config.js at http://FQDN:443/ instead of
# http://FQDN:9200

cridenour

Setting up Vim as your Go IDE

Intro

I've been wanting to do a serious project in Go. One thing holding me back has been a my working environment. As a huge PyCharm user, I was hoping the Go IDE plugin for IntelliJ IDEA would fit my needs. However, it never felt quite right. After a previous experiment a few years ago using Vim, I knew how powerful it could be if I put in the time to make it so. Luckily there are plugins for almost anything you need to do with Go or what you would expect form and IDE. While this is no where near comprehensive, it will get you writing code, building and testing with the power you would expect from Vim.

Getting Started

I'm assuming you're coming with a clean slate. For me this was OSX so I used MacVim. There is nothing in my config files that assumes this is the case.