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My appearance on the Django Chat podcast

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Django: Customizing how a model form renders fields

A quick look at providing a custom HTML template for ModelForm to use for fields you choose.

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How to calculate contrast color in Python

Using luminance to get contrasting foreground colors for the user-selectable background.

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Django: How to let user download a file

Creating file download links with the help of a FileResponse.

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Django: How to send email without Celery

Lightweight emails without Celery. And without a request-response cycle.

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Django tip: Redirecting straight from urls.py

You don't need custom view to redirect URLs.

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Creating dynamic RSS feed with parameters

Quick look at setting up RSS feed that takes a parameter.

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Django Waffle: Quick intro for dynamic feature toggling

I have recently discovered the power of Django Waffle. This is the quickstart tutorial I wish I had.

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How to use elided pagination in Django and solve too many pages problem

Since Django 3.2 there is a way to handle big pagination with large number of pages.

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How one default parameter almost killed our servers

A short story about serious server issue caused by super minor thing.

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Django Gems

Django Admin tip: Auto-generated slug content

With a single line you can save yourself the trouble of filling in the slug manually.

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Django Rest Framework

How I built API for iOS Feeds in 10 minutes

Just a short look what is possible with Django Rest Framework.

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Working with Django ImageField

My notes for smoother working with this model field. Saving using model forms, Image, deleting and resizing.

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How to setup Postgres locally for Django on Mac

The easiest way to have local instance of PostgreSQL on your macOS system available for your Django projects.

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Django Gems

Hidden gems of Django: Truncator

Turns out Django offers great way to truncate text. Lets see how to use the built-in util Truncator.

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How to select random record with Django ORM

This post details how I solved displaying random banner on this very site. The solution does not have any prerequisites.

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How to automatically switch debug/production database in settings.py in Django

Since settings.py is just an ordinary Python file we can use simple `if else` block.

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How to display fractions in Django

Short post about rendering for example 1/4, 1/2 and other fractions in your Django template. Turns out this is not complicated if you know about important parts to combine.

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How to create RSS feed with HTML content in Django

Presenting my solution which I arrived at with trial & error in hopes it could save time to someone.

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Django Rest Framework

How to create/register user account with Django Rest Framework API

My solution for account registration with DRF.

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Django: How to send image file as part of response

Using Base64 might be useful in some scenarios.

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Django Rest Framework

Django Rest Framework: How to let user add only one ForeignKey object (for example review)

My solution I decided to write up to have reference in the future.

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Django: How to let user re-order/sort table of content with drag and drop

I needed to preserver order of table elements and decided to share my solution.

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