Doing your first code review for something written by a senior member of your team is scary. As a novice programmer it’s easy to think that only beginning or intermediate developers struggle with this.
A quick screencast that shows you how to use Sublime Text as your Git editor. Super useful if you work with Git from the command line!
Let’s take a look at GitGutter, a Sublime Text 2/3 plugin that highlights lines modified since the latest Git commit.
Maybe you’ve been using Python for a while now and you’re starting to feel like you’re getting the hang of it. But one day you catch yourself thinking: “What about classes?”
“How do I parse an ISO 8601 formatted date in Django without bringing in extra dependencies?”
When developers decide if they’re going to use your open-source project they (often unconsciously) look at various signals to judge its quality. An important quality signal is social proof, that is, potential users want to know how many other developers use your project.
It’s easy to accidentally write Python assert statements that always evaluate to true. Here’s how to avoid this mistake and catch bad assertions as part of your continuous integration build.
How to generate documentation for a RESTful API as part of your continuous integration build and then automatically deploy it to a website. Includes a full example project on GitHub.
When you make an HTTP OPTIONS request against an endpoint in a Django Rest Framework app you might be surprised about what you’ll find in the response to that request.
A great README file helps your project to stand out from the sea of open-source software on GitHub. In this article I go over the key elements every README for an open-source project should contain. It also includes a README.md template for use in your own projects.
I worked on a Python web app a while ago that was struggling with using too much memory in production. A helpful technique for debugging this issue was adding a simple API endpoint that exposed memory stats while the app was running.
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