I really hate Jenkins for several non-objective reasons and it's not a classic hatred, more a life struggle where all episode begin by my signature on an employment contract. Most societies made the effort to open a private Gitlab but ask them to forget Jenkins and move into CI tools into SaaS is clearly unbelievable.

It is ...

I have long refused to use tox in my Python projects, I though to test code against multiple version Python was a task which should be made by CI tools. After contribute to several projects, I learned to appreciate it when I want to test code with different aspects. I was wrong and for me ...

The framework is a bit old and has already crossed a little piece of the IT's history. Let's follow the resume of Django's life, its well known third applications, links with Python and related events:

Like all serious data this blog needs to be save in case of disaster and as a cloud native app it should be able to be ran in every platform and to be operational after a backup restored. A Django backup is generaly a database dump coupled with a media files copy.

Instead of use ...

A long time ago before Google launched Google Cloud Platform, I played with App Engine and Django. Despite of the fact you must swith from Django usual tools (Celery or ORM) to Google services like Memcache or Task Queue, I was seduced by their fast deployment system.

A standard Django app is fastly adaptable to ...

You had fun, you wrote a Django third app. You should have write unittests before but you didn't know where to place them. For my case when I wrote Django Admin CLI I used the work made in Django Comments, let's explain it a little.

All testing code are stored in tests/ directory ...

As said in previous post about Docker, my blog's Docker Image is only a middleware container. It needs to be launch with a frontend, a database and optionnaly a cache. A solution for get ready to play with a full containerized architecture is docker-compose, with it I followed micro-services architecturing and only define one ...

I ever want to manage Django models directly from command line. In my dreams I have a curses script which have the same look and feel than Django Admin, in fact I created a CRUD application named Django Admin CLI. It is a Django third app linked to Admin's registry which allow DRY, easy ...

In my mind the master word of Docker is Fashion. So let's docker my blog ! It is a relativy a simple webapp, perfect for test Docker and micro-service architecture.

I won't make a new explanation of what are Docker and containers. For this kind of informations see the official doc. The great things ...

One thing not explained in Django Doc is how to make your project to live accross environments. Some settings need to have different values when used in production or testing, and testers might want to set their own values. A clear example is I wanna use a MySQL in production and SQLite in testing.

What ...