It's been roughly a year since MongoDB launched their Stitch "back-end as a service" product, and I've been tinkering with Mongo on the cloud ever since. Alright fine, "tinkering with" may better be described as "accidentally became dependent on it after developing new features in production environments," but I can't really complain thus-far. If you're not familiar, MongoDB Atlas is
If you're familiar with Django (or Python to any extent), you've probably accepted the concept of what Python guys refer to as "static assets" without much consideration. At some point in Django's conception, a design decision was made: any code, styles, or assets were tucked away into their own respective uninteresting corners of the framework. Thus it was known: anything
We all knew it would only be a matter of time before a blog full of Python junkies would touch on Python's fastest growing framework. Staying true to all that is Pythonic, Flask is a gift to developers who value the act of development. By minimizing level of effort and maximizing potential, Flask allows us to be as minimalist (or
Back in the day we touched on some of the wonderful upsides of implementing Gulp into your workflow. If you have been following along and happened to install the latest version of Gulp, you may has noticed something horrible happen: nothing worked. I probably should’ve mentioned that the latest major update to Gulp, Gulp 4, is actually a breaking
Writing HTML sucks, thus we should do everything to minimize the time we spend writing it as much as possible. Thus, we have Handlebars: a lightweight templating system for Node. Handlebars allows us to avoid repetitive code by compiling the final DOM structure of our site via logic, typically compiled by task runners such as Grunt or Gulp.
If you're
NOTE: This tutorial was written for Gulp versions <4.0.0. Check out this post for Gulp >4.0.0
Perhaps the whole obligatory-Gulp-tutorial on [Some Coding Blog] thing has become a bit cliché at this point. Haters may do as they will, but I 'll take any opportunity to jam as many SEO keywords I can get
Django CMS is a leading Python-based CMS.
As it stands, there is not a comprehensive guide which walks through the complete installation of Django + Django CMS. While is information exists in fragments, newcomers to Python would undoubtedly have trouble piecing much of this information together. This guide hopes to serve as a reduction of friction to Django newcomers, thus ensuring
We'll start with the obligatory update to ensure we're getting the latest packages.
apt-get update
Let's verify that Python 3 is is installed on your box.
python3 --version
Python 3.6.3
If Python 3 is not installed, go ahead and install it:
apt-get install python3
Next we'll