A 2026 guide to caching a Django 5.x project with Memcached. Configure the modern PyMemcacheCache backend (the unmaintained python-memcached Memcached...
Read article Jul 20, 2018
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Explore service pageIntegrate the PayU payment gateway with Django step by step: build the SHA-512 request hash, redirect to hosted checkout, verify the response hash ser...
Read article Jun 20, 2018
PyPy's JIT can make CPU-bound, pure-Python Django code several times faster, but most web apps are I/O-bound, so switching interpreters often buys lit...
Read article Jun 20, 2018
A practical 2026 guide to building a custom online store with Django Oscar 3.x: what Oscar is, when it beats Shopify or Saleor, the canonical install ...
Read article Jun 7, 2018
A 2026 guide to generating CSV and Excel files in Python: use the stdlib csv module for CSV, and openpyxl or XlsxWriter for .xlsx. Includes working co...
Read article Jun 1, 2018
A current 2026 guide to exposing a local development server to the public internet: the one-line fastest option, a side-by-side comparison of localtun...
Read article May 27, 2018
A 2026 refresh on configuring Vim and Neovim as a productive Python IDE: lazy.nvim, LSP via Mason (pyright + Ruff), Treesitter, nvim-cmp, Telescope, a...
Read article May 18, 2018
A current 2026 guide to receiving and parsing inbound email in Django with SendGrid's Inbound Parse Webhook — MX setup, the multipart POST fields, raw...
Read article Apr 28, 2018
How to build autocomplete (type-ahead) search in Django with django-haystack and Elasticsearch: the EdgeNgram analyzer, EdgeNgramField, SearchQuerySet...
Read article Apr 24, 2018
Keep Django social login fast by offloading slow pipeline steps — avatar fetch, profile sync, welcome email — to Celery 5.x tasks, using the maintaine...
Read article Apr 22, 2018
A practical 2026 guide to adding full-text search to Django with django-haystack and an Elasticsearch backend: configure HAYSTACK_CONNECTIONS, define ...
Read article Apr 17, 2018
A 2026 guide to the Apex List collection in Salesforce: declaration, every key method with examples, custom sorting with Comparable and Comparator, bu...
Read article Mar 24, 2018