Over the years I've become increasingly wary of the word "easy" in software documentation. Pick a software project at random, and there's a good chance the documentation will lead off ...
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Writing Functional Python
The recent buzz surrounding Functional Programming (FP for short) is well deserved. Languages like Haskell and Clojure in use by big name companies such as Barclays Captial, Atlassian, and ...
3 Easy Ways to Prevent User Frustration with Good UX Design
Recently I enrolled in an online UX course through springboard.com. With the help of videos, articles, projects, and the support of a seasoned UX mentor who works in the ...
End User Focused Django Tutorials
Django is being used by corporations worldwide. Every day, Imaginary does its part to increase this footprint by deploying Django websites and applications to our clients. As a result, Django ...
How to Use Amazon S3 Storage for Select Apps
The django-storages module documentation assumes that you’re setting your storage configuration site-wide. This is how you configure it for a specific application.
Braintree Integration with Django
Much has been written about how to implement online payment using the services available from Braintree, but little about how to do it specifically within a Django framework. Combining the two ...
Django Class-Based Views: The Basics
Class-based views are my favorite feature of Django, so there is an obvious bias when discussing function views and class-based views. I’ll throw my two cents in here and move ...
Django CMS Plugin Authenticated User Variations
Note: a companion app for this post can be found here:
https://github.com/ImaginaryLandscape/cmsplugin-auth-content-example
In a recent project using django CMS, we found ourselves in need of ...
A Python Solution for Making Custom PDFs from HTML
The client wanted to give their users the option of printing completed forms to a pdf file. They also wanted the pdf to be rendered with formatting and style that ...
Encrypted Postgres Backups
When creating a Postgres Database backup, one convenient approach is to export the database to disk via the pg_dump command. This postgres export file can then be picked up by ...
Testing SaltStack with Vagrant
We use SaltStack as our primary configuration management tool for server provisioning and management. I’ve been doing a fair amount of updates to this process and have primarily been using ...