3 videos · 3 events · 2017–2022 · 1h 27m of video
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DjangoCon US 2022 · November 23, 2022
Jay Miller and Melanie Arbor use swimming as a metaphor for entering and participating in Python and Django communities. They argue that technology can improve people’s lives, but access, representation, discrimination, harassment, and narrow ideas about who belongs keep many people from getting in or…
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DjangoCon US 2019 · October 18, 2019
Melanie Crutchfield recounts discovering that her Django project, FiveUp, had no tests after she had postponed learning testing. She explains how pytest, pytest-django, Selenium, and pytest-cov can reveal untested code and automate checks from browser behavior to individual scheduling functions. Functional tests verify that a…
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DjangoCon US 2017 · September 6, 2017
Melanie Crutchfield recounts the avoidable mistakes she made while learning Django and turns each into practical advice. She explains why virtual environments isolate projects and dependencies, how separate Django apps keep functionality manageable, why local copies of static assets can make development work offline, and…