9 pages tagged with "beginner"

I have started to write Justfiles for all my new projects. There's a good chance you haven't heard of Just or Justfiles. They're very similar to Make and Makefiles. Whereas Make is designed to build artifacts from source files, and combine them in potentially complex ways, Just is "just" a…

Okay! Day 2 of the new blogging platform, and I've solved the automated deployment problem using GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions to Test Python I worked on a small Python project a little while ago and wanted to get CI running with as little effort as possible. I'd heard good things about GitHub Acti…

I guess it's traditional to write a first blog post about the new blogging platform. Tradition, right? Not cliché?

MongoDB is probably the world's most popular document database. It may not be well known, but MongoDB released their first driver for Rust back in 2013. Since then regular driver updates have been released, supporting new database features and adding improvements. This year, the driver was rewritte…

I got to be on a panel with Tania Allard!

It's my first ever DjangoCon Europe talk!

This 10 minute talk attempts to list and counteract the eight most common myths about MongoDB. If you didn't know that MongoDB was a secure, robust, ACID-compliant, transactional, relational database, then you should probably watch this talk.

An opinionated guide to building and distributing high-quality Python packages.

What exactly are functions? Let's talk about functions, methods, callables and closures - what they are, what you can give them, what they can give you, what you can do with them ... and what's inside.