Learnings

<p>Why using Rails instead of some shiny new JS stack? (Could apply to Django as well): </p>

<p>What really matters when it comes to improving yourself for geting a great job are the things you do AFTER college. Study on your own, read a lot, atend online courses and events, and do open source! </p>

<p>PyCicle finds circular imports in your project </p>

<p>Cool article on pythonic code review </p>

<p>The decorator is a nice and quick way to profiling memory usage in python functions </p>

<p>Microcontent: How to Write Headlines, Page Titles, and Subject Lines: </p>

<p>JavaScript Promises explained in plain English in a funny way: </p>

<p>Use feature toggles ( so you can make smaller Pull Requests and constant releases</p>

<p>Crazy stuff can be done with Python operator overloading: </p>

<p>With Django's sitemaps framework, you can use <code>python manage.py ping_google[/sitemap.xml]</code> to let it know to reindex your site</p>

<p>Django comes with a built-in redirects app for fixing 404 with redirects stored in database: </p>

<p>When working with npm, create the habit of updating your environment with <code>npm update</code> (not <code>npm install</code>) regularly. The latter does not update already installed packages, the former follows semver from package.json.</p>

<p>Cache Me If You Can #.rk6zz3yit</p>

<p>about concerns we all should have when creating tech </p>

<p>The object-fit property lets you crop an inline image</p>

<p>You should use django proxy models with custom managers</p>

<p>Design for Non-Designers: #.q40uw7tjv</p>

<p>Pipenv by @kennethreitz checkout at </p>

<p>Always have a quick and friendly feedback feature on your product. Besides all the metrics you can get from it, it helps users to give you a second chance by telling you what didn't work for them.</p>

<p>Really good blog post telling the experience of re-writing an app in React: #.sl07j8rbq</p>

<p>Don't hurry your team! </p>

<p>Continuous Integration Certification </p>

<p>Never write to a model field or call save() directly </p>

<p>How to add a heroku remote #creating-a-heroku-remote</p>