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Webinar: Deploying Django—from zero to production in 20 minutes

2019-03-13

I held this webinar two years ago—28 February 2017.

Demystifying encodings — part 3

2018-04-14

Do you ever have trouble with encodings? I used to in the past, but now I rarely do, because I do a simple thing. While knowing the things I explained in part 1 and part 2 of this series is necessary, otherwise I wouldn’t be able to fix problems, such problems rarely arise, because the first thing I do when I setup a GNU/Linux machine is set the system locale to UTF-8.

Demystifying encodings — part 2

2017-08-16

As we saw in part 1 of this series, each program reads stuff from input and writes stuff to output. Whenever it reads strings of characters in the input, these strings are encoded in a certain encoding such as UTF-8. The program must decode these strings into an internal representation. When writing to the output, the program encodes strings from its internal representation to an encoding such as UTF-8.

What this internal representation is is usually not our concern. For example, in Python versions earlier than 3.3, the internal representation is either UCS-2 or UCS-4, depending on how Python was compiled. In Python 3.3 or later, the internal representation is more complicated and described in PEP 393. But these details are rarely of interest; what matters is [Read more…] about Demystifying encodings — part 2

Demystifying encodings — part 1

2017-06-19

Has a UnicodeEncodeError ever got on your nerves? I think it has happened to pretty much everyone. I thought it’s a good time to start demystifying this mystery, and to have fun while doing it.

Interview with Rivo Laks about Docker

2017-06-01

This is an interview I took from Estonian Django developer Rivo Laks about Docker. Recorded in DjangoCon EU 2017, Florence, Italy.

Interview with Andrew Godwin about deployment

2017-05-23

This is an interview I took from Django core developer Andrew Godwin about deployment. Recorded in DjangoCon EU 2017, Florence, Italy.