Django-crispy-forms is a third-party Django application which lets you create beautiful forms in “a very elegant and DRY way”. Best of all—you don’t need to code form templates unless you really want to. The resulting form markup, by default, is compatible with Twitter Bootstrap 2. If you want to use Bootstrap …
When I started in web development, Gnome terminal and its tab interface were the tools I used for my terminal needs. We can say that web development and the terminal go hand in hand. As I progressed with web development I started using Guake, a top-down terminal that gives me a …
I think Zapier is a killer service. Also if you haven’t seen IFTTT you should do that. It’s kinda what like what Apple is to PC, IFTTT is to Zapier. Zapier is much more feature rich and has way more integrations, 250+. IFTTT calls them channels, and has 70 at …
We have a couple options for implementing a rules engine in Python: we can roll our own, or we use an existing one. Regarding the first option, it seems a little pointless. If you don’t give a rule engine proper respect, you might believe Python is already a nearly complete rule engine, and …
There are many options out there for a new project; they come in the form of languages, frameworks, concepts and paradigms. While many of them are good, our experience with over 50,000 development hours has shown us that Django is better. In a finished product, Django will return a better, …
Django is a sophisticated web platform that uses Python and supports streamlined design and rapid development. Django is also an excellent foundation upon which to build other web-oriented skills, and perhaps best of all, it is simply a lot of fun to use it to create functioning web objects. In …
According to the Popularity of Programming Language Index, the powerful but simple object-oriented programming language known as Python is now the fourth most popular programming language. The Internet is full of excellent resources and learning Python has never been easier. 1. Codecademy For starters, there’s Codecademy, a popular website that offers free …
Django is a Python-based web framework with excellent tutorials available online. Most Django development tutorials are geared for someone who’s fresh off of a dedicated CMS like Drupal or WordPress. Given that’s where the influx of Django developers are coming from, there are many resources supporting that transition. The other …
We all have our reasons for wanting a great rules engine in Python/Django. For us, those reasons are a) we enjoy programming in Python/Django and b) programming in a rules engine is much better for managing people and things. For example, when a client signs up with us (we are a Python …
Here’s some popular home automation packages which use rules in some fashion. We would argue that rules would be THE way to automate your home almost entirely. Let’s see how these packages stack up: A more comprehensive list of related software is found on our Automation Software List: Event Driven/IOT/Workflow/Rule Engines list. …