Posts in the django category

by flipperpa on Jan. 5, 2018, 2:54 a.m.

Bootstrap 4 provides some wonderful classes to use with various types of embedded content. In this post, I'll show how to use Wagtail's embed package to choose which Bootstrap CSS class to use in Django templates.

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by flipperpa on March 1, 2018, 4:46 p.m.

Wagtail 2.0 has been released today, March 1st, 2018.

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by flipperpa on March 12, 2018, 12:58 p.m.

StreamFields are one of the great features of Wagtail, allowing developers to keep content structured and completely separate from the display layer of code. But how do you keep your data if you want to rename a block within a StreamField?

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by flipperpa on May 7, 2018, 5:34 p.m.

Django offers support for SQL Server through the third-party database engine, django-pyodbc-azure. Here's an end-to-end set of instructions for the best practices for installing it in 2018.

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by flipperpa on July 19, 2018, 6:32 p.m.

I've been helping run conferences for 15 wonderful years. It is time to step back.

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by flipperpa on Feb. 6, 2019, 6:15 p.m.

Easing the transition to venv...

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by flipperpa on Sept. 15, 2019, 6:30 p.m.

CodeRedCMS is a fantastic starting point to create a website for those are familiar with WordPress, but prefer the straightforward interface of Wagtail. Here's some CSS to help you get started.

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by flipperpa on Nov. 8, 2018, 3:19 p.m.

I gave a lightning talk at DjangoCon US 2018, asking people how their lives could be different if they changed "just one thing." I share some of my recovery story as told by my GitHub activity chart!

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by flipperpa on Oct. 20, 2019, 5:08 p.m.

My talk from DjangoCon US 2019 is now up on YouTube. My "thank you" at the start runs a bit long; I was the first speaker on the first day after the keynote and wanted to help set a positive tone for the conference.

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by flipperpa on Nov. 11, 2019, 3:02 p.m.

Do you buy things on Amazon? Want to support the Django Software Foundation? There's an way to do so that not everyone knows about, using Amazon Smile.

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