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.

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 ...

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 ...

Mock is a powerful library for facilitating testing.  It allows users to replace components of your application with powerful mock objects at testing runtime.  These objects can then be used ...

Recently I had the opportunity to attend the DjangoCon Sprint here in Chicago (see related post).  One of my big take-aways from the event was that contributing to Django ...

This year I attended my first DjangoCon and, needless to say, it was pretty amazing.  I also attended my first Django Sprint after DjangoCon was over.  It was a fantastic ...

The Django Debug Toolbar is a powerful and useful tool for identifying potential trouble spots in your Django application.  Hopefully, this post will serve as a starting point for understanding ...

It has been a week since our production team returned from the 2013 DjangoCon US. Though technically we didn't return since it was in Chicago where we are located! Nevertheless ...

The de facto solution for job queues with background workers is Celery and RabbitMQ, but it is not the right fit for every project. RQ is an alternative to Celery ...

A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the Chicago Djangonauts meeting on Django Internationalization. Apparently this isn't a task that a lot of people need to do frequently ...