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Principles every programmer should follow

What makes a great programmer? Is it the capability to solve problems? Or the passion for coding? In truth, great programmers know that people matter.

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Controlling access: a Django permission apps comparison

There are many ways to handle permissions in a project. For instance we may have model level permissions, object level permissions, fine grained user permission or role based. Either way we don't need to write any of those from scratch, Django ecosystem has a vast amount of permission handling apps

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Functional programming in Python the simplest way

One of the best ways to learn something is by comparing it to things we already know. This blog post has two main goals. The first one is to introduce the basic concepts of functional programming, and for that we will compare with the main rival paradigm, the imperative programming.

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Fast enough? 9 tips for web page optimization

Our world is large, internet isn’t fast everywhere. Web optimization needs to ride along user needs. So don't waste your time with performance if it will not improve user experience. Instead, try to learn about how users are interacting with your page.

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Seriously, we can build better web API clients

We are in the era of Software as a Service and microservices. From the techinical point of view this means we are writting more web APIs than we use to. This also means we need to build clients to free our souls from dealing with bare HTTP. This doesn't mean we should separate this much from HTTP

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Tapioca talk at EuroPython

Talk about what is wrong with API wrappers and how can we do better

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3 Awesome Git commands to help you debug

Git is a great tool but since you only need to know a small subset of commands to use it, people end up not knowing a bunch of awesome features of it. Some of my favourites are blame, bisect and rebase.

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3 Django apps for sending great e-mails

Sending e-mails from a Django project? Want to use HTML and CSS or have other specific needs? These Django apps might help you:

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Uploading files from the frontend to Amazon S3

A common problem appears when uploading large files to Heroku. Every request made to Heroku must last less than 30 seconds or it will get terminated, when uploading large files, 30 seconds might not be enough. Here is how to circumvent that with Amazon S3

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Uncovering input fields from iOS Keyboard

One thing new iOS developers notice on their first experiences developing applications is that their interfaces do not adapt to the screen when the keyboard is shown. Because of this, text input fields might be hidden by the keyboard. The good news is that the solution for this is not very complex.