Mar 6

Wagtail blog part#2

In the second part of our story about the wagtail blog, we will create the basic structure of our home page which we have predefine in the home folder. Let's see what's inside it. from django.db import models from wagtail.core.models import Page class HomePage(Page): pass This is the basic structure…

Wagtail

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Feb 27

Wagtail blog part#1

Welcome to our Wagtail Blog tutorial. In this article, we will discuss how to prepare our project and run it for the first time. The content will be similar to the dosc.wagtail.org tutorial which introduces into wagtail world. Wagtail documentation is a wonderful place to get info about this CMS…

Wagtail

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May 23, 2021

Django Wagtail

When we think about creating content that can be repeated in an easy way. We should go to see the wagtail project. It can be a good alternative for WordPress and easy to extend into a bigger project. What is base on the wagtail package? The main project which…

Django

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Feb 5, 2021

Installation python package Pillow on Windows

Links: Installation - Pillow (PIL Fork) 8.2.0.dev0 documentation Download and extract the compressed archive from PyPI. Note You do not need to install all supported external libraries…pillow.readthedocs.io MSYS2 MSYS2 is a collection of tools and libraries providing you with an easy-to-use environment for building, installing and…www.msys2.org Another short story how tricky can be to install an important package on your computer. Pillow is one of them. For this purpose, we will use MSYS2 to add dependencies that profit backend for image editing for this package. …

Windows 10

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Feb 4, 2021

Installation Pillow macOS

Links: Installation - Pillow (PIL Fork) 8.2.0.dev0 documentation Download and extract the compressed archive from PyPI. Note You do not need to install all supported external libraries…pillow.readthedocs.io Homebrew The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux).brew.sh Pillow is one of the most important packages for python. Exist in many projects as dependencies. Very important is how you install this package in the environment to protect yourself from many frustrations. Let's start by installing Xcode command-line tools:

Pillow

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Installation Pillow macOS

Links:

Installation - Pillow (PIL Fork) 8.2.0.dev0 documentation

Download and extract the compressed archive from PyPI. Note You do not need to install all supported external libraries…

pillow.readthedocs.io

Homebrew

The Missing Package Manager for macOS (or Linux).

brew.sh

Pillow is one of the most important packages for python. Exist in many projects as dependencies. Very important is how you install this package in the environment to protect yourself from many frustrations. Let's start by installing Xcode command-line tools:

xcode-select --install

Next step is to install dependencies for pillow using homebrew:

brew install libtiff libjpeg webp little-cms2

Next install libraqm and its dependencies:

brew install freetype harfbuzz fribidi

Last step install pillow:

python3 -m pip install --upgrade pip
python3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow

Not easy to install but it's a very powerful package that can be used to manipulate images.

Dec 27, 2020

Editing Content in Docker Container

I start my journey with docker a few mounts ago. It fixes many problems with environments and dependencies but when I started to use it more with more complicated think and get a problem with content which is in the docker container package. I have started thinking about how to…

Docker

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Jul 11, 2020

Django JSON field

Django supports the PostgreSQL database it can be a default database for our project when we think about the production-ready project. One big advantage is the ability to store our data in the JSON field. This allowed us to use Django ORM and have the ability to aggregate on JSON…

Django

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Jun 28, 2020

Django Translation

When you discover the basic advantage of the Django application we can go deeper with the Django framework and try another part of it what is internationalization. In a time when google can translate everything, it’s not so important but when we think about the full professional site it’s a…

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Jun 6, 2020

Docker Container & Django Framework

Django is one of the most effective tools for web developers who want to achieve many goals with small amount of time. Django environment support creating CMS with the django-cms package, custom shop with django-oscar, API for mobile app with REST framework, Django-channels for an async chat, and many other…

Docker

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May 23, 2020

Django with Mako template

What is the next step when we want to create more robust application and sometimes we want some python manipulation in our template and not creating a special function in view. The first solution is to use a popular template framework called mako. welcome to Mako! Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform. Mako is a template library written in Python. It provides…www.makotemplates.org

Django

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