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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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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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10 Django apps you're not using but should be

There are some open-source Django apps that make our lives as Django developers easier, but sometimes we don't even know they exist! Good third-party apps can give you new features at little expense, make your tests easier or even improve the performance of your deployment process.

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Classy Django REST Framework

Classy Django REST Framework, a web-based documentation with flattened information about Django REST Framework's class-based views and serializers. It is heavily based on Classy Class-based View and users familiar with it will feel right at home.

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How to configure Sass and Bower with django-compressor - part 2 (deployment to Heroku and S3)

This is the part 2 of the guide on how to configure a Django 1.8 project with Sass (django-libsass), Bower (django-bower) and django-compressor.

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How to configure Sass and Bower with django-compressor - part 1 (local config)

This is a quick guide on how to configure a Django 1.8 project with Sass (django-libsass), Bower (django-bower) and django-compressor (which combine static files and minificate them).

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Django CORS

It’s common among web developers, and mainly the ones who are developing web APIs, to face problems related to CORS. Wanna know how to use CORS in Django and understand better how it works under the hood? Don't worry. We will explain.