The Key(s) to Client Collaboration
Imaginary has implemented two high tech tools to foster a decidedly low tech essential for success - frequent and productive client collaboration.
Testing + QA
Quality development requires testing to uncover situations that can negatively impact clients and users. It also helps ensure consistency and reliability when deploying code. Topics include testing approaches and strategies, the various testing tools available in Python and Django, continuous integration testing tools and building effective unit and integration tests.
Tuning Site Search for Covid-19
The recent spike in usage of the term covid-19 introduced some inconsistent results in Imaginary’s custom site search engine, iScraper, a tool which utilizes Elasticsearch as its indexing engine. We’ll ...
New Top 10 List of the Most Critical Security Risk to Web Applications, Is Your Application Vulnerable?
The new OWASP Top 10 list of website vulnerabilities has just been released.
Quick Introduction to Mock
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 ...
5 million votes and counting at Rockhall.com
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame recently announced their 2015 nominees. At the same time, they opened up a Fan Voting application so that music fans across the world ...
Remember your robots.txt
As part of our website creation process, we utilize one or more servers for development. This keeps the live site live while we do our work but gives us a ...
Testing and Django
At the last Chicago Djangonauts meeting, which we host in our office, I gave my first Python/Django talk. I spoke regarding unit-testing your code in general, but, also how unit-testing ...
Testing As a Different Django User
All types of Django auth do basically the same thing: They associate a browser session ID with a Django user if the user logs-in successfully. I found a neat technique ...
Where Django programming and Google Analytics meet
We just recently discovered an issue where a programming decision affected the ease (or lack thereof) of establishing goal funnels in Google Analytics. What we also discovered was that it ...
Django and Continous Integration
There are a wide variety of reasons why we should worry about testing in our Django applications, obviously. However, as a former system administrator, I have some ideals that are ...