Django community: RSS
This page, updated regularly, aggregates Community blog posts from the Django community.
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How to Create Custom List Views in Salesforce
A 2026 guide to custom list views in Salesforce Lightning: create and name a view, build filters with filter logic and relative date literals, pick columns, set visibility and sharing, and use list view charts, Kanban, inline editing, and mass actions. -
Host Django & WordPress on One EC2 Instance
You can run both a Django app and a WordPress site on a single Amazon EC2 instance under one domain, with nginx as the front door — proxying Django to gunicorn and passing WordPress to php-fpm. This 2026 guide covers path-based vs subdomain routing, the systemd and pool setup, separate Postgres and MariaDB databases, free Let's Encrypt TLS, and when you should split them onto separate infrastructure instead. -
Generate CSV & Excel Files in Python: csv, openpyxl & XlsxWriter
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 code for csv.writer, csv.DictWriter, openpyxl, XlsxWriter and pandas.to_excel, a comparison table, and why the old xlwt library is obsolete. -
jQuery Mouse Events and Touch Events (and the Modern Pointer Events Way)
A practical, up-to-date guide to jQuery mouse events (click, dblclick, hover, mousedown/up, mousemove) and touch events, plus the modern vanilla-JS replacement: the unified Pointer Events API that handles mouse, touch, and pen with a single code path. -
Apex List Methods in Salesforce: A Complete Guide
A 2026 guide to the Apex List collection in Salesforce: declaration, every key method with examples, custom sorting with Comparable and Comparator, bulkifying DML to respect governor limits, and List vs Set vs Map. -
Salesforce Inbound Email Services: Create Records from Email
A Salesforce inbound Email Service routes incoming email to an Apex class that implements Messaging.InboundEmailHandler, so you can parse the subject, body, sender, and attachments and create or update records like Leads, Cases, or custom objects. Learn the setup, a working handler, governor and processing limits, and when Email-to-Case or Web-to-Lead is the better fit. -
Get Tweets With JavaScript Using the X (Twitter) API v2
The 2014 widget-scraping trick is dead: Twitter is now X, v1.1 statuses endpoints are retired, and reads need an authenticated, paid API tier. Here is how to fetch and display tweets with JavaScript the right way in 2026 — a server-side proxy to the X API v2, a safe browser fetch, and the no-API oEmbed widget for a single tweet. -
Run Django & WordPress Together with Docker Compose
A 2026 guide to running a Django app and a WordPress blog side by side on one host with Docker Compose v2 — each in its own container, behind an nginx reverse proxy, with named volumes, healthchecks, and Let’s Encrypt TLS. -
Event Delegation in jQuery (and the Modern Vanilla JS Way)
Event delegation attaches one listener to a stable parent so it can handle events from many current and future child elements. Here is the jQuery .on() pattern, the recommended vanilla JavaScript equivalent with closest(), and when delegation is actually worth it. -
How to Configure & Test a Load Balancer on AWS EC2
A practical 2026 walkthrough of creating an Application Load Balancer in front of EC2 instances - target groups, listeners, health checks, HTTPS - and then testing it properly: confirming traffic is distributed, checking target health, draining a failed instance, and running a light load test. -
Getting Started with Jupyter Notebook (formerly IPython Notebook)
The IPython Notebook is now Jupyter. This 2026 guide shows how to install JupyterLab, run notebooks locally or in VS Code and Colab, use magics and kernels, export with nbconvert, and keep notebooks reproducible and version-controlled. -
Generating PDFs in Python with xhtml2pdf (HTML to PDF)
Generate PDFs from HTML in Python with xhtml2pdf (pisa) — a pure-Python, pip-only library built on ReportLab. Covers install, the CreatePDF API, rendering to a BytesIO buffer, returning PDFs from a Django view, the link_callback for images and CSS, page breaks, and an honest comparison with WeasyPrint, pdfkit and ReportLab. -
Converting Audio & Video with FFmpeg (CLI + Python)
A practical 2026 guide to converting and transcoding audio and video with FFmpeg - the command-line essentials (containers, codecs, CRF, trimming, GIFs, hardware encoding) plus how to drive it from Python with subprocess, ffmpeg-python, moviepy, and pydub. -
How to Publish a Python Package to PyPI
A modern, 2026 guide to publishing a Python package to PyPI: a pyproject.toml as the single source of truth, choosing a build backend, building sdists and wheels with python -m build, uploading with twine and scoped API tokens, and secretless Trusted Publishing from GitHub Actions. -
Salesforce Governor Limits Explained
Understand Salesforce governor limits — the per-transaction SOQL, DML, CPU, heap and callout caps the Apex runtime enforces — why they exist, what happens when you hit one, and the bulkification patterns that keep your code within them. -
How to Avoid Salesforce Project Failure
Salesforce projects fail far more often from people and process problems than from the platform itself. Here are the real causes of failure and a practical playbook to avoid them. -
Kibana Dashboards & Shipping Logs: ELK Stack Part 2
Part 2 of our ELK series picks up after ingestion: ship logs from every host with Filebeat or the modern Elastic Agent + Fleet, then explore them in Kibana using data views (formerly index patterns), Discover, KQL, visualizations, and dashboards on Elastic Stack 8.x/9.x. -
Deploy Django on AWS with CloudFormation (IaC)
A practical 2026 guide to deploying Django on AWS with CloudFormation infrastructure as code: a real YAML template (ALB, Auto Scaling Group, RDS PostgreSQL, IAM), CLI v2 deploys, change sets, secrets handling, migrations, and how it compares with CDK, Terraform and Elastic Beanstalk. -
How to Set Up a Custom Domain for Amazon CloudFront
A 2026 step-by-step guide to pointing a custom domain like cdn.example.com at an Amazon CloudFront distribution, with a free ACM certificate in us-east-1, DNS validation, and a Route 53 alias (or third-party CNAME). -
Paginating S3 Objects with boto3 in Python
S3's list_objects_v2 returns at most 1000 keys per call. A complete boto3 guide to paginating S3 objects: the manual ContinuationToken loop, the idiomatic Paginator, Prefix/Delimiter folder listing, PaginationConfig, JMESPath .search(), and the resource API. -
AWS Auto Scaling with Auto Scaling Groups & Load Balancers
A practical 2026 guide to combining an Application Load Balancer, target groups and EC2 Auto Scaling Groups with launch templates, target-tracking policies, instance refresh and CloudWatch so your app scales automatically and stays highly available. -
Python collections.Counter: A Complete Guide
A deep, practical guide to Python's collections.Counter for 3.13: constructing counters, most_common, elements, update/subtract, arithmetic and set operations, total(), real-world recipes, a comparison with dict and defaultdict(int), and the common gotchas. -
Amazon SQS: Message Queue Processing with Python (boto3)
Amazon SQS is a fully managed message queue that decouples and buffers the parts of your system. This 2026 guide shows how to process SQS with Python and boto3 - Standard vs FIFO queues, long polling, visibility timeout, dead-letter queues, and the modern SQS-to-Lambda consumer pattern. -
React Router for Navigation: A Modern Guide (v6 & v7)
A current (2026) guide to navigation in React with React Router. Covers the data router (createBrowserRouter, RouterProvider), nested routes and Outlet, dynamic params, useNavigate and NavLink, query strings, loaders and actions, error boundaries, protected routes, code-splitting, library vs framework mode in v7, and migrating from the old v5 Switch/component/useHistory APIs. -
Apex Set Methods in Salesforce: A Complete Guide
A 2026 guide to the Apex Set collection in Salesforce: an unordered collection of unique values. Every key method with examples, de-duplicating Ids, using Set as a SOQL IN bind variable, preventing trigger recursion, and Set vs List vs Map.
