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Capped Social Network - Building SaaS #76

In this episode, I started a new project to build a different kind of social network. This social network will contain a max number of connections to encourage thoughtful choice when growing your personal network. We talked MVP features and put in the basics of a Django app.

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Make A Landing Page - Building SaaS #75

In this episode, I added a landing page design to the app that I’m building. By using a Tailwind CSS landing page template, I could fit the design in with my existing CSS tools.

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Hijack To Help Customers

When customers report their thorniest problems and all of your diagnostic tools have failed you, how can you help? In this article, we explore a technique and a tool for Django apps that can help you swoop in and save the day.

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Check Web App Security With Bandit - Building SaaS #74

In this episode, I integrated the bandit static analysis tool to do automated security checking of my code before each commit. We talked about pre-commit and how to add in a new hook. After finishing that tool addition, we got deep into Django while removing some messages inserted by django-allauth on sign up.

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Anatomy Of An Application

This article explores applications. Applications are core structural elements of a Django project. We will see the composition of an app and how to use them effectively.

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Dynamically Regrouping QuerySets In Templates - Building SaaS #73

In this episode, we worked on a new view to display course resources. While building out the template, I used some template tags to dynamically regroup a queryset into a more useful data format for rendering.

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From Concept To Live In Two Weeks With Django

How can you build a fully functional web application for a customer in a short period of time? I share my experience building such a web app for a nonprofit organization while participating in a local virtual hackathon in Frederick, MD.

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Displaying Breaks - Building SaaS #72

In this episode, I worked to add breaks to the display of the week schedule. We had to update context to include the break information into the schedules. I refactored a method out of the calendar display code to make some reusable logic for handling breaks.

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Episode 8 - Administering Your App

On this episode, we will focus on the built-in Django administrator’s site. We’ll see what it is, how you can configure it, and how you can customize it to serve your needs.

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Custom Form Validation - Building SaaS #71

In this episode, I added some custom checking to ensure that students may only be enrolled in a single grade level for a school year. We talked about form cleaning and wrote a for unit test to prove that the change worked. After that change, we switched to a template and wrote copy for when no progress reports are viewable for users.

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Predicting The Future - Building SaaS #70

In this episode, we worked on two issues. The first issue was fixing incorrect projected completion dates of tasks. We used test driven development to reveal the bug and work on the fix. The second issue add some extra data to display on a page.

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Administer All The Things

This article will look at how maintainers of an application can manage their data through Django’s built-in administrative tools. We will see how to build admin pages and customize the admin tools to help teams navigate their apps.

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Polishing and Usability - Building SaaS #69

In this episode, we polished some parts of the application. Now that my first customer is using the app regularly, the feedback is coming in rapidly. We worked to fix some of the issues that she found.

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Rendering Calendars - Building SaaS #68

In this episode, I worked on rendering a calendar of important events in a school year. We built out the appropriate data structures, and I wrote some new model methods and added tests.

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Give Me A Break... Day - Building SaaS #67

In this episode, we did some Django model development. I created a new model to track break days in a school year. This model will be critical to fill in vacations and holidays so that the scheduling functionality works properly. I added the model, the tests, the admin page, and the create view to create break days in the app.

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Docs, Bugs, and Reports - Building SaaS #66

In this episode, I created documentation for anyone interested in trying out the application. After documenting the setup, I moved on to fixing a bug with the scheduling display of courses. In the latter half of the stream, we focused on creating a new reports section to show progress reports for students.

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Handle Default Values - Building SaaS #65

In this episode, I updated a model to handle the default duration of new tasks. This default needed to come from the Course model instead of the CourseTask model so we had to determine how best to set that data in various forms. I also fixed some drop down selection bugs that populated a form with the wrong data. We made sure that all the code was well tested.

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Episode 7 - Models and Managers and Querysets, Oh My!

On this episode, we will explore more about models and how to interact with data in your database.