I needed to create a django form on an existing project that registered new users to the system and added them to specific site_groups, not the built in groups that django has.  So in theory, i…

A little back story Recently having moved to back to the US from Korea and hot on the job search, I was buzzing around all the different tech meetups that I could in my area. The majority that I wen…

  Working on an existing project that uses celery for sending emails to clients, taking screenshots, and a number of other tasks. My task was to email some site status to the site admin for all…

PDB cheatsheet of: https://pythonconquerstheuniverse.wordpress.com/2009/09/10/debugging-in-python/ import pdb pdb.set_trace() n next l list p Print (var…

Homework from last time was to work on 'people' app and foreign keys. I worked on both but got stuck on both.  11/23 Wednesday:  Combined deleted accounts app and put user models in d…

My friend was playing around with wordcloud and I wanted to check it out. I took her example and added user input, because even when I was playing with it, it was annoying to have to change the filen…

Because I won a scholarship with Toptal, I've also won a mentorship with someon in-network to help me reach my goal of becoming a fullstack web developer. It took some delay to get started, but they …

I recently had a project to use some currency converting API, Fixer.io. I used a django framework to set up the app. Taking in date, currency params it would return a json file with desired currencie…

Virtual Environments help keep all your installs for each project wrapped nicely so as not to affect other projects. It's like an invisible force-field protecting your project. I was trying to reorg…

I gave my first talk recently at DjangoCon US in Philadelphia. I  had attended my first conference in Budapest, DjangoCon Euro. I met awesome people and heard some great talks that inspired me a…

I'm working on a current project that had a lot of repetative code. Then I discovered {% include filename.html %} With this I was able to reduce repetative code which would elimate errors in there a…

Community   One thing that sets Django Girls Seoul apart from the others is our community. Our dream is not only to inspire and introduce women to programming but also to guide them after they…

I am so late in writing this but it's with good reason. I was super busy. I still am but here you go... The Story Goes ~ I applied for financial aid to attend DjangoCon Euro. I never thought I woul…

Git Activate (venv) Git clone Git branch branchname( make branch) Git branch ( check which branch you're on) Git checkout branchname( go to branchname ) Git branch ( checking again.. Should b…

Really, do it! I had some trouble trying to get my form tables to behave responsively for a number of different pages. My first solution is to change the {{ form.as_table }} to {{ form.as_p}}. This …

If you've done everything right check for typos As humins we can reed mispelled werds but cumputrs can't. So we have to be very careful to tell it exactly what we want it to do. I recently spent an …

Work Smart Not Hard I am working on a django site, Craftsite, that has posts by its registered users for various categories like food or crafts. I wanted to add an internal messaging service for th…

  "Rachell's story is so impressive! I also thought that programming is not for me until a few months ago but here I am." Background If you have a brief peek at my blog or site you'll know th…

I wanted to use Ubuntu for web dev projects, but I need windows for some the banking system in Korea, so I set up dual boot on my little laptop. I'm writing it here so when I need to do it again, I…

  (in order of difficulty) Bootcamps are a great jump-start but I feel like that's what they are, a start. With your programming education or even a diet to be successful you have to make it a…