DRY code is good code. Using named URL patterns in Django has always bothered me for the fact that if you decide to change the name of a particular URL you have to change it throughout your code in all of your {% url %} template tags or reverse function calls. There must be a better way ...
Last update on Sept. 4, 2018.
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The two hardest things in computer science are: naming things, off-by-one errors, and cache invalidation. This post is about the latter, specifically, how to invalidate your users’ browser cache when your static files have changed.
I found out about this one weird trick (doctors hate him) a few years ago but I think it bears ...
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Welcome to the thrilling conclusion of this three-part series on deploying this site with Deb Constrictor. This post will cover how to build and deploy DPKGs for configuration (including different configuration for different environments), and how v0.4 of Deb Constrictor adds the ability to mark files as configuration.
This post assumes you’ve read part ...
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Using Docker for a reproducible deployment environment! Now that I have your attention with some buzzwords, welcome to the second of three parts in my series on how I deploy this site using Deb Constrictor. The last post was about building and deploying the application code, this one is about building the Python virtual environment ...
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Deb Constrictor (my pure-Python DPKG building application) adds many features in version 0.3 to make building packages easier and to keep your configurations DRY. This is part one of three posts of how I use Deb Constrictor to build and release this web site (the one you’re reading right now).
The application is released ...
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