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Forms Part 3: Model Based Forms
Model forms really helps to show the power behind Django. When all it takes is to define a model and then attach the model object to a form object and poof you ... -
Getting Started with Virtualenv - Very Old
VirtualEnv is a great tool to allow you to create multiple distinct environments to prevent versioning issues of your dependencies, or to even use different ... -
Class Based Views Part 2: ListView and FormView
The ListView and FormView class based generic views are the first look we have at generic views with some power behind them which can really save us some ... -
Forms Part 2: Class Based Forms
Forms are generally annoying to deal with. Fortunately Django offers some great ways to work with forms to make your life easier. In this our second part on ... -
RSS With the Syndication Framework
Getting our data out to others is very important with a world full of data. RSS is one of the best ways to do this, still. We go over how to create an RSS feed for ... -
Pagination in Django
When you have a lot of data to sift through pagination is one of the best ways we have to visually breakup data so it is not as daunting. In this video we will use ... -
Unit Testing Client and RequestFactory
Testing your django views isn't exactly the easiest thing to get started doing, and do well. An understanding of how to test your views can go a long way in writing ... -
Use django.contrib.markup
Having your users input data and outputting it in ways other than straight plain text can be complicated. However, using different markup languages like ... -
Using Templates for Sending Emails
Sending nice pretty emails en-mass, or at regular intervals requires work so they look good. Fortunately Django's templates offers a great way to email uniform ... -
django social auth - old
Django-social-auth is probably the best, at the very least one of the best, Django applications for handling 3rd party authentication systems. It can handle ... -
Basic AJAX with Django
Ajax is essential these days, and fortunately Django provides some good mechanism for doing AJAX well. This video goes over some of the basics you need to ... -
Introduction to South Migrations
South Migrations are becoming the de-facto standard for those that need to use migrations in Django. They are also very useful as well. This video is an ... -
Starting with Jinja2 in Django - OLD
Jinja2 is a great templating language based on Django's templating engine. It has some great features, and is more performant. This video shows you how to get ... -
Use gulp.js to Manage Static Assets
Learn to use gulp.js with your django project. Since gulp.js and many other build frameworks are becoming popular more and more people are turning to them to ... -
Adding CoffeeScript - OLD
With CoffeeScript becoming more and more popular it is time to start using it. This video is about how to get CoffeeScript added to your project so you can start ... -
Basic Unit Testing in Django
Productive unit testing is a big topic, and an almost essential part of a development process. However, a lot of people don't know where to start, or how. -
Django Basics - Project Structure
Understanding Djangos a project structure can be a bit cumbersome when you start. With this video we walk you through the structure of a Django project, and ... -
Project Templates with Cookiecutter
When we start new projects we want to solve a problem, not write boilerplate. Cookiecutter helps you to stop writing boilerplate. In this video you will learn what ... -
Activity Feed with EventLog
Adding an activity feed is simple with the eventlog application. I show you how to get started with it by easily adding it to your project, and how use and ... -
Django Basics - Templates and Views
Along with models; templates and views make up part of the core of a django project. Learn how templates and views work together and what it takes to get ... -
Forms Part 1: Raw Forms
Forms are generally a pain to deal with when doing sites. This is the first video in a series to help make forms in django easier to do and understand. We start ... -
Deploying Django to Heroku - OLD
Heroku makes life easier for those web developers that just want to deploy our code and it work. In this screencast we walk you through creating a heroku app, ... -
Understanding Signals in Django
Django's Signals are complicated when you first approach them. However, once you understand the basics of how they work, they are a powerful tool to put in ... -
TravisCI and Coveralls - Old
Continuous Integration and Code Coverage used to be hard. Now with Travis-CI and Coveralls life just got a lot easier, especially for open source projects. -
Class Based Views - TemplateView and RedirectView - Old
This is the first episode in a series of videos on Class Based generic Views. These are important to learn since the function based generic views are being ... -
Setup BrowserID - No longer relevant
Browser ID is Mozillas new federated authentication system. This screencast walks you through using the django-browserid package to do your authentication, ... -
Forms Part 5: Basic Form Validation
Forms are a big subject in Django. We have run through a lot when it comes to forms. We are concluding our series with Form Validation. This simple video will ... -
Class Based Views Part 3: DetailView and template_name Shortcut
The DetailView is an important class based view since it allows us to show off details of our data instead of just bits here and there. It is also very simple to use ... -
Forms Part 4: Formsets
Formsets make life easier when it comes to dealing with multiple forms of the same type on the same page. In this episode we will show you how to set them up, ... -
Django Robots and Sitemaps
Dealing with google site indexing from google and other search engines can be a pain, but fortunately django makes it easy with django.contrib.sitemaps and ... -
Django and Angular - Data with ngResource
You can send data with AJAX using jQuery, but for some reason that feels wrong to do with Angular. What about this ngResource thing? See how to setup ... -
Setup Your Django Project in Vagrant with Salt
Getting started with vagrant can be hard. It doesn't have to be. Follow along with this video, and see what it takes to get your django project and dependencies ... -
Transform Images with django-imagekit
In this video we will walk through a couple of easy ways to transform images as you need them. django-imagekit makes this fairly simple and straight forward. -
Creating a Jinja Filter with Django 1.8+
Learn how to create a simple jinja filter that can be used with your project. -
ViewSets and Routers - django-rest-framework part 3
ViewSets and Routers are very useful for slimming up your code and providing a lot of default functionality out of the box. They are powerful features in ... -
Start Your API - django-rest-framework part 1
In this video we start creating our API by learning what it takes to put data in our database, and retrieve it back doing all of our CRUD operations. -
Test Fixtures with model_mommy
Test data is a pain to generate, and even more of a pain using django's fixutres. model_mommy comes to the rescue to help make generating data very simple, ... -
django-avatar
Avatars are a common need on websites, but they are tedious to write yourself. Checkout django-avatar to more easily add them to your site, and be on your way ... -
Django Basics - Models
Models are important because they allow you to add, save, update, and delete data from the database, all from in your project. In this video you will learn how to ... -
Converting Function Based Views to Generic Class Based Views
Class based views are often looked at negatively. Partly because people are unsure how they fit with function based views. In this video learn to convert some ... -
Setup django-rest-framework Token Authentication
Token Authentication is one of several ways to get authenticated data. Learn how easy it is to setup in django-rest-framework. -
Social Connections with python-social-auth
Authenticating with other sites over OAuth can be hard, but it doesn't have to be. As we continue with our series learn how to use python-social-auth to connect ... -
python-social-auth 101 with Django
Accessing social networks via API is a pain because you have to start with logging into them. Fortuantely, python-social-auth makes this easier, really easy. -
Two Factor Authentication with Django - Admin Demo
2 factor authentication is a great step in increasing account security on your site. With django it can be fairly easy to setup once you know how to do it. To start off ... -
Wagtail Team Roster - Part 1
Learn what it takes to create a useful app with Wagtail. In the first part of this 2 part series learn what it takes to interlink pages in Wagtail, and link to external ... -
Starting with Stripe.js (2014)
We all want to make money, so learn what it takes to start accepting money on your site with stripe. Learn the basics of have a user subscribe to your site in this ... -
Starting to Work with AWS Using boto3
Working with AWS is kind of rough. There is so much that you can do with it using their API you can kind of get lost. Fortunately, the boto3 library offers a way to ... -
Viewing Django Forms in Templates
Sometimes displaying forms with your templates can be hard, especially when there are so many ways. In this video we will walk you through the different ways ... -
CycleMento - Account Control part 1
This is the first in a series of videos on creating a product which utilizes other services to help your users stay informed. We start the series with getting our users ... -
Organize Your Data Better in Admin Detail Page
Viewing the details of your data in the admin is important. Learn how to organize it better so you can more easily navigate the data on the page. -
Static Files, Template Filters, and Commands
Static files, custom template filters, and management commands are a core part of django. In this video we walk you through each so you have a better ... -
Django Basics - django.contrib.auth
Learn the basics of using django.contrib.auth to help your users register, and login to your site. The first time you work with the auth system it can be confusing, ... -
Building a TemplateView
Boilerplate is something to avoid, so why not go with simple code that helps you remove it. Often with showing templates using Function Based Views we use a ... -
SaltStack Basics
Start learning SaltStack today. It is a great server configuration management system tool that really shines once you understand it. This video walks you through ... -
Stripe and Starting dj-stripe (2014)
Stripe is great, but using a library makes it even better. Dj-stripe is a great django library for working with stripe to get people to subscribe to your service. -
Permissions & Authentication - django-rest-framework part 2
Learn how to use basic authentication with your new API, and setup custom permissions to get fine grained precision of what can be done with data. -
Better Models Through Custom Managers and QuerySets
Learn what it takes to get common queries chain-able, and slimmer. This video goes over custom model managers and custom querysets so you can write better ... -
Python Dictionary Basics
To be effective you need to know how to use data structures. In this video you will learn the many different ways to get data in and out of a python dictionary. -
Starting with django-allauth
There are a lot of ways to do authentication in django. You can do social authentication and/or django.contrib.auth authentication. Generally they are separate, ... -
List Comprehensions
Learn about python's list comprehensions. They can help you work with data more easily, and make your code more readable. -
User Creation/Registration and Requiring an Email
We can now login, logout and work with our password be it a reset or a changing it. The biggest hole in all of this is actually having an account in the first place. -
Install Node Inside Your Virtualenv
Node.js is making its way into almost every ecosystem for doing web development. See what it takes to install node.js along side django so you can start to ... -
Convert CharField to ImageField
Sometimes you want to convert one type of model field to another one. In the case of going from a CharField to an ImageField it is fairly simple. In this video we ... -
Deferred Tasks and Scheduled Jobs with Celery 3.1, Django 1.7 and Redis
Setting up celery with Django can be a pain, but it doesn't have to be. In this video learn what it takes to setup Celery for deferred tasks, and as your cron ... -
User Profile Data
Adding profile data to a user object isn't really obvious because the User model is stuck behind the contrib.Auth app. However, it is simple once you know how to ... -
Understanding get_absolute_url
URL's can be a pain at times, but with get_absolute_url on your model it can make dealing with them on a per-object basis much simpler and cleaner across ... -
SaltStack and Pillar Basics
With salt you can separate your sensitive data from your server configurations easily. This video shows you how to start doing that, while finishing up our ... -
Request Data From the Server With Thunk and Axios - React.js
We have an api and a react app, but how do we get data from the API into our react app? In this video we go over using thunk and a promises based javascript ... -
Configure Babel with Webpack
Being able to use the latest javascript is awesome. Unfortunately it isn't always easy to do that. However, with babel and webpack it is now super easy to start ... -
Django 1.7 Migrations - An Introduction
See what it takes to use the new migrations system that has been integrated into Django 1.7. This video walks you through how to create migrations, and run ... -
Deployments with Fabric
Quick, consistent and easy deployments are a great way to develop faster and provide value for customers. Learn how to deploy to your VPS in this video using ... -
Django and Angular - Basic Ajax
At the end of the day sites deal with data. Getting data to and from the server can be a bit tricky to do correctly. There seems to be a lot of ways to do it. -
Form Field Validation with Clean Methods
Form validation can be hard, but django makes it easy. Learn how to do form validation not only at the field level, but for the entire form as a whole as well. -
Tagging with django-taggit
In this video you will learn an easy way to add tags to your models, and on your site. Tags can be hard if you try to implement them yourself, so don't try and just ... -
More on Pillar with SaltStack
Pillars can be hard to mess with and get a grasp on how powerful they can be. This video will lead you down a path of writing fairly dynamic salt states so you ... -
Wrapping Up CycleMento
In this video we wrap up the Building a Product series by doing an overview of topics we discussed in the previous 11 videos. -
Compile and Compress Assets with django-pipeline
Using things like CoffeeScript, Stylus, Less, SASS/SCSS, etc... Is becoming a more and more core part of development, but the problem usually is compiling ... -
Hello World - React.js
Sometimes all you need to learn something new is to see the basics, done in order. See how to use react, react-dom, and react router in its most basic form to get ... -
Real World Django Testing - Part 2
Stepping it up a notch we go over two testing concepts, and how to test a view mixin without having to integrate that test with another view. This video helps take ... -
Collecting Strava Data Periodically
We have the ability to save data, but how do we get it? In this video we will go over creating a celery task to pull down data from Strava regularly. Also things to ... -
CSV Files - Download Data
Creating CSV files with django to download, can be a pain. In this video learn how easy it really is to create a csv file for your users to download. -
crispy-forms
Learn how to get started using the popular crispy forms django application to streamline rendering your templates by doing your layout in python. -
Start Converting to Use Redux part 1 - React.js
We have our basic todo application, but it uses state inside of components. That isn't cool. So in this video we stat the semi-easy process of converting over to ... -
Convert AddTodo Form to Redux part 3 - React.js
To reinforce the ideas we have learned lets see just how easy it is to move state of a component from being inside the component to being used by redux. -
django-storages and AmazonS3
Saving files in the cloud, be it Amazon S3, Azure, or Rackspace, is very common now and almost a requirement. django-storages makes this seemless. -
Be More Productive with django_extensions
Django provides a lot of really useful things by default, but there are a few things we do over and over again. Learn how django extensions help solve some of ... -
Informing Users with django.contrib.messages
The messages framework can be bit confusing to wrap your head around at first. Learn the basics of setting successful and error messages and show them to ... -
Creating Abstract Django Models
Don't Repeat Yourself is a common adage we use in the development world. However, sometimes it is know when and how to do that with models. Learn how to ... -
Custom Jinja Functions
Working with templates can be hard when you need that little extra logic that doesn't exist. With the ability to add custom functions to jinja templates it is easier ... -
Namepsaced URLs
This is the feature everyone should use, but few people do. Namespaced urls help not only keep code organized and clean, but also helps prevent naming ... -
Adding Maintenance Data pt 1
Join us as we continue building our product by starting to allow our users to add bike maintenance records to their bikes. -
django-waffle
Learn how to use this popular feature flipper for helping you to develop and test new features live instead of only in development. -
Upload Files with Django
Learn how to use Django to let your users upload files. This uses only what is built into Django to get you started. -
Deploy Django Project to Heroku
Deploying your django project to heroku can be easy, if you know how to do it. Learn what it takes to deploy your project to heroku and host it. -
The Class Based "View"
People often find working with class based views hard, but they are simple... Once you spend time figuring them out. In this video start with the base of building ... -
Hosting Django on a VPS
Learn to host your django application on your own server using nginx, uwsgi, and posgresql all on an Ubuntu server. This video walks you through setting it all ... -
Building a Foundation with Models
Saving our data so that we can do something is important. In this video we will build out our Gear and Activity models since it is our base for the rest of our project ... -
Working with AWS S3 Using boto3
Working with AWS S3 can be a pain, but boto3 makes it simpler. Take the next step of using boto3 effectively and learn how to do the basic things you would ... -
Adding Components to Our Todo App - React.js
Moving beyond the setup phase of react we are ready to start writing our application. Learn what it takes to get custom react components written and displayed in ... -
Add Search to Admin and Customize It
Learn what it takes to add search to your admin pages, and to see where to start with custom search. In this video you will learn the basics of searching in admin ... -
mocking with pymox
Mocking is a difficult thing to learn and do as a beginner. This video will show you a couple of the very basics, and get you started with how to mock out methods ... -
Adding State to Our Todo App - React.js
Since we have our react components built in the last video we can move on to state. In this video we go over adding basic state to our app for managing our ... -
AJAX Usage with Django
AJAX can be a bit of a hurdle to get used to using at first, this video helps walk you through a couple of scenarios of using ajax with django. Both using function ... -
CSV Files - Upload and Save Data
Uploading and processing CSV files with django can be annoying to figure out, even more so since it is simple once you know. In this video learn how to accept ... -
Real World Django Testing - Part 3
There are a lot of different things to test in Django especially when it comes to views. In this video learn how to go about testing function based views. They are ... -
Webhooks, Django, and ngrok
Working with webhooks can be a pain. In this video learn more of what they are and how to easily work with them in your local environment using ngrok. -
Custom User Model
Sometimes using a profile object isn't quite enough to do what you need to do. Learn what it takes to use Django's builtin mechanism for doing a custom user ... -
Upload Files to django-rest-framework via AJAX
Two things people want to do a lot is upload files with AJAX and upload files to django-rest-framework. Learn how to do both at the same time in this video. -
Deploy Code with SaltStack
SaltStack is very powerful for working with your servers. In this video take that next step, and learn how to deploy your site using SaltStack. Keeping your site and ... -
i18n and l10n Translation Basics
Learn how to convert your app to start localizing it for your international users. In this video you will see what it takes to translate your application from adding ... -
Save Data Over API with Axios and React.js
In our final video we end with saving data to the database over our API. This gives us a working react app with django and django-rest-framework to be able to ... -
Serve Static Files with Whitenoise
Serving static files in django can be confusing when you aren't sure what is going on. Whitenoise can help to simplify it a bit. Checkout how to use whitenoise ... -
Real World Django Testing - Part 1
Testing in the real world is hard. This video is the start in a series on real world testing by showing common testing patters used in many django projects. -
Setup Basic Django Rest Framework API for React.js
We have our django project our react project, now we are starting our API so the two can interact with each other and we can work with data. -
Saving Data from Strava
Getting data can be easy. Effectively saving it from one source to your database can be a pain. In this video we explore a way to get data from Strava and save it ... -
More Data in List View of Objects
With tens of thousands of records in the admin, getting what you need can be hard. Learn what it takes to work with the page that lists of all those objects, and ... -
Wagtail CMS View Methods in the Page Model
Working with Django you get used to views, but working with Wagtail you have to escape views. However, you don't have to escape them completely. -
Django, webhooks and dj-stripe (2014)
Stripe is great for working with payments. Webhooks and dj-stripe make it even better, in this video learn how to use stripe webhooks with your application to get ... -
Setup MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT
Learn how to manage where and how to get files your users upload. Setting up MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT can be confusing until you understand it. -
Convert Main Todos to Redux part 2 - React.js
We have our basic todo application, but it uses state inside of components. That isn't cool. So in this video we stat the semi-easy process of converting over to ... -
Create and Update User Profile Object
We can login and logout plus register. Now just need to be able to save off data for our users so we can alert them with a text message. We also need to do it in ... -
Adding Maintenance Data pt 2
In this video we finish off our maintenance django app to get us to the point we can associate maintenance with our bike, and know how much distance we are ... -
Move React.js Project to be In Django Project
If you start out with a JavaScript only project how can you move it into a django project? In this video learn a project setup that keeps with idiomatic django and ... -
Django and Angular - Displaying Data
Angular is great for doing "stuff", but displaying data with django templates and jinja can be tricky if you aren't sure how to do it. Learn what it takes to display ... -
Setting up Jinja in Django 1.8
Now with the ability to configure usage of Jinja built into Django 1.8 we will upgrade our application to using Django 1.8, and use the new template configuration ... -
Writing Data Migrations in Django
When you migrate models sometimes you need to modify the data, but that can sometimes be difficult. Fortunately Django has built-in support for migrations now ... -
Query with values and values_list
Sometimes querying the database for all the data is a bad thing. Learn how to use values, and values_list to slim up your database querys to make them more ... -
CycleMento - Account Control part 2
You know how to create an account, log people in and out. Now how do your users change their passwords, and recover their passwords. In this video we ... -
Django 1.11+ django.contrib.auth Class Based Views - Part 2 - Password Change and Reset
Since we can log in and logout what about managing our password? Learn the power of using the builtin Generic Class Based Views now in django.contrib.auth ... -
Django 1.11 GCBV Account Control Part 1 - LoginView & LogoutView
This is the first in a long series on creating a CryptoCurrency management site, but first we need to lock things down so people can't see all of our stuff. So we ... -
Django 1.11 Release Notes a Reading
With the release of Django 1.11 yesterday here is a reading of the django release notes. -
Django 1.11 Highlights
There are a lot of good things coming up in Django 1.11, and you can start to see them now with the new release candidate. To get you started here are a few ... -
How Do I Start Learning Django
If you are wanting to start learning django the biggest question is "Where do I start?" and "Where do I go from here?". In this video I attempt to answer that ... -
You Should Do Weird Stuff in Django
I have found when I learn the most is when I have to do something odd in django. It isn't bad or going against django, but something that isn't default django. -
Why You Should Pin Your Dependencies
I have had some "fun" experiences not pinning my dependencies in my projects. Today I go through 3 stories that has caused a bit of heartache when I didn't ... -
Different Types of Tests with Django
What to test and where to test is a common question I get asked. In this video learn about different types of tests you can write in the context of Django. -
5 Reasons You Should Use Class Based Views
There are a lot of reasons to use class based views. Here are 5 reasons you should. A few of them are really helpful for long term maintainability of your code ... -
How to Vett Django Apps
Knowing what 3rd Party django applications to use is hard. There are a lot of ways to try and evaluate them. Here are some ways that I do it, and things I keep in ... -
TDD, Unit Tests, or No Tests?
Should you use TDD, should you NOT use TDD. Should you test at all? We talk about what each approach takes and why or why not to use them. Then I take a ... -
How Do I Deploy Django Day to Day?
There are a lot of ways to deploy Django so I think it is one of those topics people are really curious about how other people do it. Generally, in all deploys you ... -
5 Reasons Not to Use the Django Admin
Should we always use the django admin? Maybe sometimes we are a little to reliant on it. -
Hello World and Welcome to 2017
2017 is going to be a fun and big year, start off the new year with some ideas of what is coming. -
Beware Templates on Disk
Believe it or not django templates can be an annoyance when doing a production push which can lead to some odd errors and situations. -
How to Handle Migrations Across Branches
A question that is asked a lot is how do you deal with migrations when switching back and forth between branches during development. In this video I give an ... -
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Basics of webpack
Learn the basics of webpack to be able to compile all your javascript and their dependencies into a single location. Learn enough to be able to get started with ... -
Store Measurements Sanely with django-measurement
Learn what it takes to easily store measurement data in the database using django and python. -
honeypot with django admin honeypot
Security is something we often ignore until it is too late. However, there are some things you can do right now that are easy to increase your security. -
Django with Bash for Windows
Doing django development using "Bash for Windows" seems to work pretty well. See what it takes to set it up and get started.