I'm currently working on a new Django project which relies heavily on Celery. I normally use RabbitMQ for these kinds of projects but I decided to give Amazon SQS a try this time as it's very cheap and will simplify my setup.
While the Celery docs does a pretty good job explaining how to set it up, there were a few things that it didn't cover that I'm sure other devs will run into. …
If you haven't tried the IPython Notebook yet, you're missing out on a very neat tool. I just started using it a few days ago myself and I regret not having used it much sooner.
I'm currently working on a new Django project where I need to use Amazon's MWS API. I find myself using the Django shell a lot to experiment with the API while building the app. While the IPython shell is quite …
Back in the early days of Docker Compose, when it was still called Fig, you couldn't use ipdb with it to do interactive debugging because the container's service ports weren't exposed when using the run command. This has been fixed by including a ---service-ports option to the docker-compose run command.
Below is a sample usage for one of my Django projects, EZ Price Alerts.
In my detail view, I added import ipdb; ipdb.set_trace() …
Before Docker came along, virtualenv was pretty much the tool of choice for Python developers as it allows you to separate package dependencies for different applications you're working on without having to create separate virtual machines for each one. It worked very well for me.
However, there are still some annoying things the developers will have to deal with. Such things include having to install additional applications and services required by the project such as …
Medellin has a very modern metro system, but one of the things you'll notice when you first use it is the long line at the ticket window. For some reason, the stations don't have ticket machines.
If you use the metro a lot, it's very much worth the effort to get a Civica card. It will save you a lot of time in the long run plus you get around 12.5% off the regular ticket …