simple is better than complex

So, I just wanted to share a few straightforward tips about database access optimization. For the most those tips are not something you should go to your code base and start refactoring. Actually for existing code it’s a better idea to profile first (with Django Debug Toolbar for example). But those tips are very easy to start applying, so keep them in mind when writing new code!

Django ships with a Flatpages application that enables the user to create flat HTML pages and store it in the database. It can be very handy for pages like About, Privacy Policy, Cookies Policy and so on.

This is a very common problem that every developer will eventually face at some point. Your boss or a client comes with a set of requirements and asks you to estimate how long it will take to implement them.

I was reading today the book Two Scoops of Django (affiliate link) by Audrey and Daniel Roy Greenfeld and found some interesting tips about using class-based views with mixins.

For this short tutorial we will be using the django.contrib.auth views to add a password reset functionality to your Django application. The process of reseting passwords involves sending emails. For that matter we will be using console email backend to debug and check if everything is working. In the end of this tutorial I will also provide resources to properly configure a prodution-quality email server.

This module is a collection of helper classes generally used in view functions/classes. All the shortcuts are available in the module django.shortcuts.

Keeping the users of your application aware of what is going on makes a huge difference in the user experience. If there is something users hate more than slow applications, it is applications that does not communicate with them.

There are many scenarios where you may want to use AJAX requests in your web application. It is a great resource that enables web applications to be faster and more dynamic. For this short tutorial I will be using jQuery to ease the implementation.

Django uses a very interesting approach to generate the Password reset tokens. I’m not really a security expert, neither I’m very familiar with cryptography algorithms, but it is very safe and reliable.

In the Django QuerySet API, F() expressions are used to refer to model field values directly in the database. Let’s say you have a Product class with a price field, and you want to increase the price of all products in 20%.