Eduardo Zepeda's latests posts
The best Django book, Two Scoops of Django review
- django
This post is a review of Two scoops of Django, what I consider the best Django book. It’s a total must-have book if you’re into application development using Django. You’ve probably already heard of it, as it’s a pretty popular book among English-speaking ...
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Django for Professionals' review
- django
Some time ago, while searching for information about Django on the internet I came across a very good weekly podcast called Django chats . The author, named William S. Vincent, talks about Django and interviews developers related to this web development framework. Besides running...
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The definitive guide to Django
- django
Django is my favorite web development framework, it is mature, its documentation and community are excellent. When I wrote about the advantages and disadvantages of Django I explained you how to go from an idea to a working prototype in a very short time and without writing almos...
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How to program an automatic wallpaper changer in Python?
- python
In the previous post we made an automatic wallpaper changer in Python In this entry we are going to use Cron to program the periodic execution of this script and that it is in charge of changing the wallpaper every certain time, automatically, every hour, two hours, every day, ev...
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How to create a wallpaper changer using Python in Gnome?
- python
In this post we are going to create an automatic, random and minimalistic wallpaper changer for GNU/Linux using Python. With no extra functions, super lightweight and totally homemade, its only function will be to randomly select an image and set it as wallpaper. I will explain t...
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Cron and Crontab schedules recurring tasks
- linux and devops
Many times we want to run a script or a command every so often, for example when we want to perform periodic backups of a database, send your subscribers a reminder email, or perhaps delete cache files every so often. Cron, in conjunction with Crontab allows you to run a task eve...
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You are misusing console.log in javascript
- javascript
I bet you have ever used console.log() to debug errors when programming in javascript. But you may not know that console has other useful methods besides log(). In this post I am going to place some of the most useful methods that I have found on the web. In this entry I am going...
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Destructuring with default values in Javascript
- javascript
In the previous post I briefly discussed the topic of destructuring with nested objects in javascript . In this post I am going to talk a bit about how we can specify default values when destructuring an object in javascript.
To do this we will create a fairly simple object:&...
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Destructuring nested objects in Javascript
- javascript
In the previous posts I briefly explained how to perform a destructuring of objects in Javascript , but in most cases we will not be lucky enough to work with flat objects, but we will find nested objects with several levels of depth. Will we have to settle for forgetting about t...
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Destructuring lists in JavaScript
- javascript
In the previous post I explained a bit about the topic of object destructuring in javascript . In addition to object destructuring, JavaScript also allows you to destructure lists. In this post I will talk about list destructuring in JavaScript.
Let’s imagine that we ha...
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