Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 18th October 2024.

I’m back after a two-week hiatus.

Katie and I have reduced the frequency of our meetings, which I think has helped each of us focus on our other tasks. We’re now meeting on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings for …

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Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 27th September 2024.

This was my third full week as Katie’s buddy. We covered:

• When QuerySets are evaluated
• The nature of the SQL statements generated by Django’s ORM
• List comprehensions (listcomps)
• Breakpoints, the Python debugger, and pdb++
• Django Debug Toolbar
• Django …

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Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 20th September 2024.

This was my second full week as Katie’s buddy. We covered:

• the Django shell (manage.py shell)
• the database shell (manage.py dbshell)
• displaying two shells in one window with Terminator
• creating and saving models with managers and instances
• environment …

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Weeknotes for the week finishing Friday, 13th September 2024.

This was my first full week as Katie’s buddy. We covered:

• setting up a GPG key
• the differences between a GPG key and an SSH key
• signing commits
• the pros and cons of HTTP and SSH for communicating with a …

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