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Multiple Erlang/Elixir versions in Windows

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 22 Aug 2024 15:20:00 +0300

How to use multiple Erlang/Elixir versions in Windows

A simple OpenID connect tutorial

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 29 Nov 2023 15:20:00 +0200

A simple tutorial for OpenID connect using only HTTP requests

Simple Django - DataTables integration

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 23 May 2023 13:20:00 +0300

Integration of jquery DataTables with Django

AI auto-subtitling

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 22 May 2023 13:20:00 +0300

Auto-subtitling movies with AI

HTML form disable after submit

Serafeim Papastefanos — Fri, 12 May 2023 15:20:00 +0300

A simple way to improve the functionality of your HTML forms by disabling the submit button after submitting.

Multiple storages for the same FileField in Django

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 14:20:00 +0300

Using multiple file storages from the same FileField in Django

Using Unpoly with Django

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 10:20:00 +0300

A guide on using Unpoly with Django

Accessing MS Access databases from Python and Django

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 22 Mar 2023 15:20:00 +0200

Accessing data from a Microsoft Access database with Django

My essential guidelines for better Django development

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 11:10:00 +0300

A list of guidelines that I follow in every non-toy Django project I develop

Setting up Postgres on Windows for development

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 20 Sep 2022 11:10:00 +0300

How to setup Postgres for development on Windows

Better Django inlines

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 12:20:00 +0300

How to improve our Django inlines

Using clojure from Windows

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 14 Apr 2022 11:20:00 +0300

How to install and use clojure from Windows

PDFs in Django like it’s 2022!

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 12:20:00 +0200

How to render PDFs in Django like it’s 2022!

A forward and reverse proxy primer for the layman

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 14:20:00 +0300

A primer for explaining forward and reverse proxies to the layman

Token Authentication for django-rest-framework

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 25 Aug 2021 12:40:00 +0300

How to authenticate django-rest-framework with tokens

Changing choices to a ForeignKey using Django migrations

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 15 Jul 2021 09:50:00 +0300

How to convert a choices field to a ForeignKey using Django migrations

Saving in Dark Souls

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 15 Jun 2021 14:20:00 +0300

How to properly save your game in the Dark Souls trilogy

Using matplotlib to generate graphs in Django

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 08 Feb 2021 14:55:00 +0200

How to use the matplotlib library to generate server-side graphs with Django

Using hashids to hide ids of objects in Django

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 07 Jan 2021 12:20:00 +0200

How to hide the ids (primary keys) of your objects in Django using the hashids library

Adding a timeline of your wagtail Posts

Serafeim Papastefanos — Fri, 18 Sep 2020 16:20:00 +0300

How to add a timeline wagtail Posts

Getting alerts from OS Mon in your Elixir application

Serafeim Papastefanos — Fri, 15 May 2020 14:20:00 +0300

How to receive alerts from the Erlang osmon (OS Monitoring) application in your elixir/phoenix application

Adding a latest-changes list to your Wagtail site

Serafeim Papastefanos — Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:20:00 +0200

How to add a list of the latest changes to your wagtail site

Quick and easy layout of django forms using django-crispy-forms and django-widget-tweaks

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 18 Mar 2020 11:20:00 +0200

How to easily layout your django-crispy-forms forms

Declarative Ecto query sorting

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 17 Oct 2019 12:20:00 +0300

Being able to declare your Ecto query sorting even on fields spanning joins

How to properly handle an HTML form

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 03 Oct 2019 14:20:00 +0300

An introductory tutorial on how to properly handle a form. PHP is used for pedagogical reasons.

Declarative Ecto query filters

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 14:20:00 +0300

Being able to declare your Ecto query filter even on fields spanning joins

Phoenix forms integration with select2 and ajax

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 04 Jun 2019 14:20:00 +0300

How to create a proper ajax-autocomplete solution for your foreign key fields with Phoenix Forms and select2

How to create a custom filtered adapter in Android

Serafeim Papastefanos — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:20:00 +0300

How to create a custom filtered adapter in Android; we’ll be using Kotlin for this.

Fixing your Django async job - database integration

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 25 Feb 2019 15:20:00 +0200

How to properly fix the errors you get when integrating async jobs (rq, celery etc) with your database in Djang

Use du to find out the disk usage of each directory in unix

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 12 Nov 2018 14:20:00 +0200

How to use the du utility to find out the disk usage of each directory in unix

Adding a delay to Django HTTP responses

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 08 May 2018 23:20:00 +0300

How add a delay to your Django HTTP responses using a middleware or a CBV

Easy immutable objects in Javascript

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 05 Apr 2018 12:20:00 +0300

How to avoid mutations in your objects and a poor man’s lens!

A comprehensive Django CBV guide

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 19 Mar 2018 12:20:00 +0200

A comprehensive guide to Django CBVs - from neophyte to more advanced

Easy downloading youtube videos and mp3s using youtube-dl and python

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 06 Mar 2018 12:20:00 +0200

Download videos (and convert them to mp3s) from youtube using python youtube-dl and ffmpeg!

Authentication for django-rest-framework with django-rest-auth

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 01 Mar 2018 22:40:00 +0200

How to authenticate with django-rest-auth

Using both Python 2 and 3 in Windows

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 11:20:00 +0200

How to install and use both Python 2.x and 3.x on Windows

My essential django package list

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:20:00 +0300

A list of packages (add-ons) that I use in most of my projects

Automatically create a category table in Postgresql by extracting unique table values

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 04 Jul 2017 09:05:00 +0300

A postgresql script to help you automatically create a new category table by extracting its values from a table and generate the relations

Creating custom components for ag-grid

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 09:55:00 +0200

How to create custom components (renderers and editors) for the excellent ag-grid grid library

Getting a logical backup of all databases of your Postgresql server

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 15:10:00 +0200

A script to help you backup your postgresql databases

A pandas pivot_table primer

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 21 Sep 2016 11:20:00 +0300

A primer on how to use the very useful pivot_table command of a pandas dataframe.

Splitting a query into individual fields in Django

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 12 Sep 2016 16:20:00 +0300

How to split a query containing spaces into individual model fields

How to download all images of an imgur album

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 27 Jun 2016 14:20:00 +0300

How to download all images of an imgur album

Using Werkzeug debugger with Django

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 07 Jun 2016 10:40:00 +0300

How to use the Werkzeug interactive debugger with Django to improve your development workflow

Understanding nested list comprehension syntax in Python

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 27 Apr 2016 11:20:00 +0300

Write nested list comprehensions with ease

Configuring Spring Boot

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 19:20:00 +0300

Configuring your Spring Boot applications using application properties, profiles, locan settings and command line arguments and deploying them using init.d!

A comprehensive react-redux tutorial

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 11:20:00 +0200

A comprehensive tutorial for using react with redux

Ajax data with Fixed Data Table for React

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 22 Dec 2015 15:20:00 +0200

A simple demonstration on using FixedDataTable with Ajax data

PDFs in Django: The essential guide

Serafeim Papastefanos — Fri, 27 Nov 2015 10:20:00 +0200

An essential guide to creating, editing and serving PDF files in django

Improve your client-side-javascript workflow more by using ES6

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 16 Nov 2015 14:20:00 +0200

Browserify can be used to integrate next generation javascript (es6) to your client side scripts using babel.

Django dynamic tables and filters for similar models

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 05 Oct 2015 14:20:00 +0300

Creating DRY and dynamic tables and forms for similar models in django

A (little more) complex react and flux example

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 12:55:00 +0300

A (little more) complex React and Flux example, continuing from the previous posts.

django-rq redux: advanced techniques and tools

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 01 Sep 2015 14:20:00 +0300

Another article about django-rq with some more advanced techniques and tools!

A comprehensive React and Flux tutorial part 2: Flux

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 02 Jul 2015 14:20:00 +0300

A React and Flux tutorial that tries to be as comprehensive as possible! Part 2 is about Flux.

A comprehensive React and Flux tutorial part 1: React

Serafeim Papastefanos — Fri, 05 Jun 2015 14:20:00 +0300

A React and Flux tutorial that tries to be as comprehensive as possible! Part 1 is about React.

Using browserify and watchify to improve your client-side-javascript workflow

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 27 May 2015 14:20:00 +0300

Using browserify and watchify you can greatly improve the workflow of your client-side javascript.

Show 404 page on django when DEBUG=True

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 29 Apr 2015 10:20:00 +0300

How to display the 404 error page on django when DEBUG=True

Calling the REST API of Pusher from python

Serafeim Papastefanos — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:20:00 +0200

How to call the REST API of Pusher from python

Asynchronous tasks in django with django-rq

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 14:20:00 +0200

Using django-rq to add queuing jobs (asynchronous tasks) and scheduling (cron-like) capabilities to a django project.

Django model auditing

Serafeim Papastefanos — Wed, 21 Jan 2015 14:20:00 +0200

Model auditing (who-did-what) with Django

Change the primary color of bootstrap material design

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 16:20:00 +0200

A tutorial to help users change the primary color of Bootstrap material design

Retrieving Gmail blocked attachments

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 14:20:00 +0300

A method to retrieve blocked attachments from your Gmail

Django non-HTML responses

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:20:00 +0300

Implementing non-HTML (for instance CSV, XSL, etc) responses with Django and Class Based Views

Implementing a simple, Heroku-hosted REST service using Flask and mongoDB

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 30 Jun 2014 15:23:00 +0300

An implementation & discussion of a simple REST service with Flask that is hosted on Heroku and is using mongoDB for persistance.

Django generic FormViews for objects

Serafeim Papastefanos — Fri, 11 Apr 2014 10:23:00 +0300

An implementation & discussion of generic FormViews for acting on model instances

A Wagtail tutorial

Serafeim Papastefanos — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 21:20:00 +0200

This is a from scratch tutorial for creating a wagtail based Blog.

Django dynamic forms

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 24 Dec 2013 14:20:00 +0200

Creating dynamic (user generated) forms in django

Django authority data

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 05 Nov 2013 14:20:00 +0200

An implementation & discussion of authority data for Django

Using custom authorities with spring-security LDAP authentication

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 14 Oct 2013 08:55:00 +0300

Configuring spring-security for logging in through LDAP but retrieving the user’s authorities from a custom (non-ldap) source.

git branches

Serafeim Papastefanos — Tue, 08 Oct 2013 13:20:00 +0300

Experiments and answers for git branching

Using pelican to generate static sites on windows

Serafeim Papastefanos — Mon, 07 Oct 2013 10:20:00 +0300

A quick and dirty tutorial for generating a static site with pelican on Windows and hosting it to github.io as username.github.io.