Posted On 22 January 2016 By MicroPyramid
CasperJS can be used for Navigation Scipting, Scraping and testing. In this Tutorial we will see how to scrape data from website using CasperJS and PhantomJS 1.9
Posted On 22 January 2016 By MicroPyramid
Self Motivation is important to achieve success in life. Motivation is what Pushes us to achieve our goals, One of the biggest challenge is meeting goal whether it may be anything like productivity, changing habit etc.
Posted On 22 January 2016 By MicroPyramid
The single most significant advantage in Django class-based views is inheritance. On a large project it's likely that we will have lots of similar views. instead of writing the repeated code we can simply have our views inherit from a base view.
Posted On 22 January 2016 By MicroPyramid
By writing unit test cases, you can evaluate each code component in the initial stage itself and it'll improve your app/code performance. Which is the best practice to test your code and you can easily determine if there are any errors.
Posted On 11 January 2016 By MicroPyramid
Ansible is a scripting language mostly used to automate installing applications, deploying apps etc..
Why Ansible:
You may think why learn new language if I can do the same using shell scripts, well that's ok but in my opinion ansible doesn't take much time to learn and shell scripts could become complex as the projects scale up. You can read afurther details over here(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6431552).
Posted On 25 December 2015 By MicroPyramid
When you want to track your exception and log mesages in a UI rather than storing it in a file(which we usually do), we can use SENTRY. Sentry provides real-time crash reporting and exception tracking for your web and mobile apps.
Posted On 21 December 2015 By MicroPyramid
Django provides built in authentication which is good for most of the cases, but you may have needs that are being served with the existing system. For Ex: You want 'email' for authentication purpose rather than Django's username field and you want an extra field called 'display_name' as full name for the logged in User. To meet the above requirements, we need to customize Django's built-in user model or substitute a completely customized model.
Posted On 17 November 2015 By MicroPyramid
We all want our own domain name to be setup for cloud front instead of amazon default cloud front domain name. We need two things for that to happen.
1. DNS should be served from amazon Route53
2. SSL for our custom domain
Posted On 13 November 2015 By MicroPyramid
Configuring SSL is beneficial not only for security purpose but also for SEO too.
Linuxsoftware foundation's initiated a program called Let’s Encrypt to give ssl certificates for free and it is in preview state as of today. You can whitelist your domain by registering here. You can configure after getting confirmation from Let’s Encrypt team.
Posted On 05 November 2015 By MicroPyramid
Ecommerce solution providers like OpenCart, Magento Provide extensions to see Google analytics data in their own dashboards as graphs. whereas there are no such plugins availble in Python. In this tutorial, we will learn how to display google graphs in your website.
