I am a Django developer and from time to time we work on projects that interact with the database. This is where the Django ORM comes in, it helps the developer to create and update database tables. In order to create an environment that closely mimics that of the production…

Django is a very powerful web framework built for python developers with the aim of quickly building web applications using a concept called “Batteries included” where loads of features have been simplified within the framework. In this tutorial, we are going to learn how to build a custom user model…

As we grow in web application development, it comes to a point when we want to be able to carry out some tasks just before saving an object to the database or right after saving an object to the database. In Django, this can be done using a feature called…

There is this feeling of satisfaction that comes to most developers when they finally host an application on a live server and everything is working and he feels he is done with that application. Well, that feeling is always short-lived when clients want things moved around. …

Computers are everywhere. Computers range from our laptops, servers, phones, tablets and so on. They can as well be found in devices like blenders, refrigerators, wristwatches, etc. Every computer does 4 major things: 1. Input 2. Storage 3. Process 4. Output These are what make computers computers. So all computers…

For those building production applications may decide to use Amazon Web Services to host their applications and also take advantage of the many wonderful services they offer. One of these services is Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service). This service is responsible for storage of files like images, videos, music, documents…

When you have an application that requires users to login using their Twitter accounts, you will have to implement the Twitter Sign in API. The challenge with this is that the implementations of Twitter Sign in is based of OAuth, which can seem overly complicated. This tutorial will be using…

When you have an application that requires users to login using their Twitter accounts, you will have to implement the Twitter Sign in API. The challenge with this is that the implementations of Twitter Sign in is based of OAuth, which can seem overly complicated. This tutorial will be using…

I needed to install elasticsearch on my AWS instance, and this took me such a long time. I actually went online to search and posted the issue on a number of tech forums but no response. Apparently, I guess I was thinking about the problem too much. One morning, I…