Django - Mostly Python

Learning Log home page, reading "Track your learning." in large text, with an accompanying description of the project.

django-simple-deploy

Generating unique names

MP 165: TIL about secrets.token_hex(). I've been working on dsd-scalingo recently, a django-simple-deploy plugin that automates the process of deploying Django projects to Scalingo. I'm excited about this work, because Scalingo seems to be one of the best platforms available at

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Django from first principles, part 20

MP 119: How do you keep learning about Django? Note: This is the 20th (and final) post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series is free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. This was a much longer series

BlogMaker Lite home page, with address bar highlighted showing a fly.io URL specific to this project

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Django from first principles, part 19

MP 118: Deploying a simple Django project. Note: This is the 19th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series is free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post, we did some final reorganization of

django-simple-deploy

Thinking about architecture

MP 117: How often do you write a new, moderately complex library from scratch? Note: Our power was just restored yesterday afternoon, so we ended up going 12 days without power or running water. Internet service is still a week or two away. I've been able to get

Both projects have groups related to user account code, overall project code, and blog-related code.

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Django from first principles, part 18

MP 113: Restructuring the project. Note: This is the 18th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post, we gave users the ability to write

page showing a form with two text boxes labeled "Title" and "Body", with button labeled "Save post"

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Django from first principles, part 17

MP 112: Letting users write new posts. Note: This is the 17th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series is free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post we gave users the ability to

web page with form titled "Create a new blog"

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Django from first principles, part 16

MP 110: Allowing users to create their own blogs. Note: This is the 16th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post we connected each

each card representing a blog on the "All blogs page now shows a specific user in the lower right

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Django from first principles, part 15

MP 109: Connecting users with blogs. Note: This is the 15th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post we finished setting up user accounts.

user registration page, with "eric" in username field, and obscured passwords in a password and password confirmation f

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Django from first principles, part 14

MP 107: Building a registration page for new users. Note: This is the 14th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post we built a

navigation bar with message "Hello, fake_admin", and a button labeled "Log out"

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Django from first principles, part 13

MP 106: Letting users log in, and log out. Note: This is the 13th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series is free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post we restructured the project

blogmaker_lite.py, with colored rectangles highlighting 5 main sections: imports, admin, views, URLs, and WSGI

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Django from first principles, part 12

MP 105: Reorganizing a project to manage increasing complexity. Note: This is the 12th post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series is free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post we wrote a script

post page, showing sample blog post with randomly-generated title "Big Lot Appear"

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Django from first principles, part 11

MP 103: Generating sample data for local development. Note: This is the eleventh post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. The BlogMaker Lite project is coming along nicely,

page focusing on a single post, with post title, date, blog title, and post body

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Django from first principles, part 10

MP 102: Making a page for individual posts. Note: This is the tenth post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last post, we created a page

page titled "My Python Blog", with two posts: "Python is great", and "Python is super!"

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Django from first principles, part 9

MP 101: Adding a page for each individual blog. Note: This is the ninth post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. At this point the BlogMaker Lite project

blogs page with each blog's information on a card element

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Django from first principles, part 8

MP 99: Styling the blogs page, and collecting static files into one directory. Note: This is the eighth post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. In the last

Home page with a clearly defined nav bar, main blurb, and button linking to the all blogs page

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Django from first principles, part 7

MP 98: Incorporating a minimal CSS framework, and adding custom styles. Note: This is the seventh post in a series about building a full Django project, starting with a single file. This series will be free to everyone, as soon as each post comes out. When you're building