Google-cloud & Heroku
Using Google-cloud in Heroku with Django
I have just setup a Django website on Heroku. That was fairly easy. One of the "gotcha" was the Google-cloud authentication. Getting access to Google translate took a bit more work than other APIs. Here is how I've done it.
September 2020
September 2020
Setup Django on Mac in 2020
Setup Django on MacOS Catalina with Python 2 & 3 support
There are many ways to setup Django on MacOS. Here is how to get started while keeping the flexibility to have projects in different versions of Django and different versions of Python too.
June 2020
June 2020
Testing single-page applications Interaction Consortium
How to test a dynamic website with Cypress?
Cypress makes writing end-to-end tests really easy. In Cypress, the tests contain user actions (click here, type that text, press enter, etc.) and some visual assertions (this text shows up, that form is opened or closed, that button is disabled, …
May 2020
May 2020
How to prevent bugs in a SPA? Interaction Consortium
Single-page applications are prone to bugs.
Single-page applications are more error-prone for various reasons. User flows are more complicated; this is because we do not load a new page at every single user-action. The application has more components “talking” to each other. There must be at …
May 2020
May 2020
Decision making trap & bad technology
Costly decision choices
When developing a website for an organisation, you're usually directly exposed to its IT infrastructure and to its internal organisation / politics. In most cases, it's all fairly coherent; sometimes, it makes no sense at all. In some cases, a …
January 2019
January 2019
Elm & Django #2
Building a basic search
Elm is a great tool to build simple widgets like a search bar. The use case is simple, as the user types, we want to dynamically show a filtered list of results.
October 2018
October 2018
Handling repetitive tests in Django
By using data-driven tests
When writing tests (unit and/or functional), one of the goal is to cover all edge-cases. DDT is a great way to write such tests; here is how to do so in Python and Django.
June 2018
June 2018
When to use pop-ups
Should you use unsolicited pop-ups?
Unsolicited pop-ups are despised by most users but remain commonly used. Why is that? Should you add them to your website?
January 2018
January 2018
Elm & Django #1
Embed Elm code in Django
Here is a simple solution to run Elm code within a Django template. This could be used to handle the full frontend or just to embed a "widget" - like a search bar - via Elm.
January 2018
January 2018
eatsomecode new design
Better, lighter, faster
The year 2017 has been really busy; I haven't blogged since January. I had been planning to change eatsomcode.com design for months and the winter break is the perfect opportunity to do so. Basically, it's a simpler design which will …
December 2017
December 2017
Introducing learnkanas.com
Learn hiragana and katakana online
The first step in learning Japanese (unfortunately) is to learn the "kanas". The kanas are two syllabaries: hiragana and katakana. To memorise them, you can copy them countless times or you can play a simple game regularly. You can do …
January 2017
January 2017
Handling statuses in Django #2
Expose transitions to an API
As discussed in the previous article, django-fsm is a great plugin to handle statuses in Django. Let's use it with an API.
October 2016
October 2016