This article is part of a series on security acronyms every Django developer should know. CSRF stands for Cross-Site request forgery and describes a certain kind of attack on a web application. Cross-Site request forgery is quite a mouthful, so I’m going to use the acronym CSRF for the rest of the article. How do […]
A friend recently mentioned that he was caught by surprise when he was asked to explain CORS in a job interview. As a web developer, you come across so many acronyms on a daily basis that it can be challenging to keep up. However, not all acronyms are created equal. Here is a list of security related acronyms […]
If you followed the official Django tutorial or any other up-to-date tutorial, you might have seen a model definition like this: You might have wondered “What is the purpose of @python_2_unicode_compatible? Do I really need?” Let’s have a look at the docs: A decorator that defines __unicode__ and __str__ methods under Python 2. Under Python […]
The most important skill in programming is to get unstuck. You can solve a lot of problems by googling, but at some point, you will get stuck and won’t get any further without interacting with another human being. There are several places where you can find help, but they are not all created equal. 1. […]
Yes, absolutely! I can understand where that question comes from. Everyone is raving about React, Angular or whatever JavaScript library is just in fashion. This can lead to the impression that it is impossible to build a web application with just Python and Django. Especially a beginner might wonder “do I have to learn JavaScript […]