The Django framework is an extremely powerful tool at helping build applications quickly while helping drastically reduce the amount of boilerplate code. …

Django provides a robust signaling framework which can be extremely useful for triggering additional logic after specific events happen, i.e. saving an object. This article will demonstrate how to set up Django signals to trigger a method every time a specific model object is saved. For the example use case…

Django provides a powerful built-in construct called Paginator which helps streamline handling pagination for your models and helps eliminate boilerplate code. This article will illustrate how to utilize this class in the Django built-in ListView and DetailView CBVs in two simple examples. Example models First, let’s define the model class and the…

Since this is something which comes up often in conversation, I wanted to document my answer to the question, “How do I get ahead?”. …

One common design anti-pattern in the software engineering industry that I’ve come across repeatedly over the years is the practice of having infrastructure mirror the organizational structure of the company using it - a systems-level application of Conway’s law. …

Aspiring leaders often ask what the important traits are of a successful leader. Typically, the best advice is to model the desired behaviours observed in other successful leaders. The following is my personal list of what I have observed to be 10 of the most important qualities of world-class leaders. Optimize for the team’s success …

Test automation is accepted as a best practice and seen as a must in nearly all software engineering projects. After all, automated tests can run continuously 24/7/365 without any breaks and are the best way to quickly catch regressions in the code base almost as soon as they are introduced…

Technical continuity is an important aspect of any engineering team as the team’s staffing changes over time. Engineers will move on to new opportunities for legitimate reasons and new faces will be hired to take their place. For large enough teams, losing a few seasoned engineers at once is not…