These are generally longer form technical articles
July 30, 2023
Demystifying Django Model Fields: A Comprehensive Guide for Beginners
How many times have you defined fields in a Django model and thought "Should this be blank? Should this be null?" How should you go about this?
What is up with blank and null in Django model fields?
How many times have you defined a model and thought how should I define my fields visa ve blank and true. Let me demystify this for you!
May 16, 2022
Creating a Visual Representation of your Django Models
When you have to perform some complex ORM Query it is helpful to be able to have a visual to help you.
Jan. 22, 2022
Deploying a Django project to DigitalOcean Apps Part One - Basic
DigitalOcean have a PAAS(Platform as a service) call Apps that I want to use to deploy a Django App
Oct. 4, 2021
Programatically setting up Django with Wagtail
I want a management command that I can run to set up my wagtail site and create a superuser and make things nicely automated
Sept. 9, 2021
HTMX with Django Example 2 - Bulk Update
This is the second example in a series of coding out examples from the HTMX website in DJango
Aug. 27, 2021
HTMX Examples using Django - Click to Edit
I want to learn HTMX and the best way for me to do so is by example.
July 30, 2021
Adding TailwindCss to a Django Website
I hate CSS and I love CSS, but I mostly hate it.
May 9, 2021
Add an instagram api feed to your Django website pt 1 - get the data!!
I am in the process of building a website that requires a carousel of the latest instagram pictures. Here are the steps I took to get this running on my Django site.
Nov. 30, 2019
Using Vagrant for local Django Ansible deployments
I use digitalocean to host my web applications and I use ansible to provision and deploy. I have taken the decision to not use docker until a need for it arrises. This post will take you through all the steps to
May 1, 2019
Import CSV File into SQL Server
How to quickly import a csv file into sql server
Aug. 14, 2018
Extracting pattern from set of files
I was given a directory of problematic files. Each file had a pattern _id_ in it. I needed that id to then remove to a temporary table in T-SQL
June 8, 2018
Using pip through a corporate firewall on Windows
It can be very frustrating working behind a corporate proxy trying to install packages but here is a way to take away the pain
Dec. 1, 2017
Seeing queries produced by Django ORM
In order to get comfortable with the Django ORM seeing what SQL is produced is really helpful in order to make sure you arent producing unnecessary sql
July 28, 2017
Web scraping and importing into a Django model
Im currently working on a website that helps residents in my borough avoid parking tickets. I wanted to scrape roads information data and save it into a Django model which would later be used in an automated tasks