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Python, Django, Wagtail, and other musings from Philadelphia
DjangoCon US Lightning Talk: Change Just One Thing
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!
Every Bit Helps: What a Janitor Can Teach Us About Open Source
We can learn an important lesson about open-source contributions from the early space program.
Feeding My Inner Database Love at PGConf Philly 2018
We were lucky enough to host PGConf Philly 2018, the third year we've hosted the conference for PostgreSQL at The Wharton School. The event brought PostgreSQL enthusiasts from the east coast together for an afternoon of learning, sharing, and fun. Jim Mlodgenski started the event showing some trends in PostgreSQL growth; Philadelphia is the third largest local PG group, behind only New York and San Francisco. Yes, we're bigger than Chicago, Seattle, and Austin!
Fifteen Years of Awesome Events: Why I'm Retiring From Organizing
I've been helping run conferences for 15 wonderful years. It is time to step back.
[OUTDATED] Django and SQL Server: 2018 Edition
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.
Wagtail 2.0 Has Been Released
Wagtail 2.0 has been released today, March 1st, 2018.
Responsive Embeds with Wagtail and Bootstrap 4
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.
Code Syntax Highlighting in Your Terminal
Here's a quick trick using the Python library pygments to enable pretty colors in your terminal when viewing source code. It detects which syntax highlighter to use by the file's extension.
Generating a PDF from Markdown or HTML
There are many different methods of generating a PDF in Python (and therefore, Django), that I have been exploring over the past few days for a project. After looking through these, this one seems straightforward.