Developer & marketing
How do you market your skills?
For years I haven't even though thought about marketing myself. I was working hard, caring for customers (I still am :)) - I assumed that was essential and enough to progress and ultimately get better jobs. I used to think …
February 2016
February 2016
Commenting your code
Commenting more by commenting less o_O
Put 10 developers in a room and ask them what's their religion. You'll get 10 straight simple answers; no debate about the existence of God; no arguments; nothing more than the expressions of their personal belief. Now ask the same …
January 2016
January 2016
Excuses to not write tests
Haven't you heard these?
Automated testing is an extremely controversial topic. Every developer is aware of how important testing is but some always find excuses not to do it.
January 2016
January 2016
Chained Queries in Django
Improving the quality of your code by extending models.QuerySet
Writing clean code is as important as getting things working. In this article I'll show you three different ways to handle queries in Django; from worst to best.
January 2016
January 2016
Python Praise
How I moved from PHP to Python
How I moved from PHP to Django
April 2015
April 2015
Setup Django on Mac
Step by step guide to get Django working on MacOS Yosemite
I took some notes as I set-up Django and Python on a new Macbook running MacOS Yosemite (10.10). By following these steps, you'll have the best tools available - as far as I know - to code some Django apps. …
February 2015
February 2015