March 2020

I am aggregating here some more or less interesting stuff of various IT related materials which I came across this month. Some of them are strictly related to the things I did or am currently doing.

Articles

Advanced Usage of Python Requests - findwork.dev

While it’s easy to immediately be productive with requests because of the simple API, the library also offers extensibility for advanced use cases. If you’re writing an API-heavy client or a web scraper you’ll probably need tolerance for network failures, helpful debugging traces and syntactic sugar.

Python 3 Module of the Week - pymotw.com

PyMOTW-3 is a series of articles written by Doug Hellmann. to demonstrate how to use the modules of the Python 3 standard library

Python libraries

pendulum

Python datetimes made easy

Django

django-summernote

Summernote is a simple WYSIWYG editor. django-summernote allows you to embed Summernote into Django very handy. Support admin mixins and widgets.

django-ckeditor

Django admin CKEditor integration. Provides a RichTextField, RichTextUploadingField, CKEditorWidget and CKEditorUploadingWidget utilizing CKEditor with image uploading and browsing support included.

django-import-export

django-import-export is a Django application and library for importing and exporting data with included admin integration.

django-modeltranslation

The modeltranslation application is used to translate dynamic content of existing Django models to an arbitrary number of languages without having to change the original model classes.

django-storages

django-storages is a collection of custom storage backends for Django.

django-admin-sortable2

Generic drag-and-drop ordering for objects in the Django admin interface

django-cms

Open source enterprise content management system based on the Django framework.

django-trench

django-trench provides a set of REST API endpoints to supplement django-rest-framework with multi-factor authentication (MFA, 2FA). It supports both standard built-in authentication methods, as well as JWT (JSON Web Token).

Guide to the Django REST Framework - sunscrapers.com

Read this ebook, and you’re guaranteed to get clear and highly manageable code that won’t bring you shame when you show or transfer it to others.

Views On Views - Matt Layman

In this article, we’ll examine the core building block that makes those URLs work: the Django view.

Django Admin Cookbook

Django admin cookbook is a set of recipes of how to do things with Django.

Mental Models for Class Based Views - djangodeconstructed.com

This article is a deep dive into how Django's class-based views work behind the scenes.

Tools

git standup

Recall what you did on the last working day ..or be nosy and find what someone else did.

Other stuff

nikitavoloboev/my-mac-os

List of applications and tools that make my macOS experience even more amazing