This is the second part of how to generate barcodes using the Django Web framework.

This part will focus on importing a list of customer name from an excel or CSV sheet. By default, the generated barcode in Part 1 is in PNG format; we need to change that as well to a PDF format so they can be easily printable, this will be the subject of a third and final part.

Bear in mind that I’m not a great UI guy so, we will do just the minimum required for the display. We’re going to split this piece into…

Currently working with an Enterprise Solutions that serves as a CPR (Capture Process Route) tool for increasing knowledge workers productivity by at least 50%, if your workflow includes storing digital documents in different locations day in and day out. It has some quite outstanding features under its belt and the one I am trying to use right now is batch scanning through barcodes.

What this feature does is, it scans a load of paper and automatically groups them based on their appropriate destination. Generally speaking, the process of going from paper to electronic documents is often cumbersome, especially when it…

Times of making old fashion boxes have come to an end.

I remember my time in India, I didn’t have a personal printer so I had to go to an internet cafe in order to make prints or copies of a document. Somehow the expression we used was always “I need to make a xerox ”, though the printers used were Canon or HP branded.

It was only years later, after working with a Xerox Partner that I came to understand we were referring to the Xerox Corporation because they are in a sense the pioneer of modern printers. In…

Handling objects creation the easiest way possible.

It’s been quite some time that I play with Django, a couple of years to say the least and this is in my opinion one of the most overlooked methods by new Django developers.

Speaking of my own experience, I remember when I just started programming, my code had to be pretty thick and complex otherwise I wouldn’t be happy with it and I wrote a story on looking back at my 1st GitHub repo that is the perfect illustration of it.

Anyway, “ Revenons à nos moutons ”! As I was saying…

Let’s talk about context processors and see how you can use them effectively in your Django projects.

“A context processor has a simple interface: it’s a Python function that takes one argument, an HttpRequest object, and returns a dictionary that gets added to the template context. Each context processor must return a dictionary.

Custom context processors can live anywhere in your codebase as long as they are pointed to by the context_processors argument of Engine.” — Django’s documentation

When working with multiple and separate views, you may load different data objects into different views, but sometimes the use case requires…

Started with Django five years ago and still into it

You probably have an idea of what that article will be made of by reading the title, and guess what? You are right my friend. …

Understanding how important they are.

Let’s talk about Managers in Django because not a lot of people make use of them. The Django project getting started guide is a simple Poll application, and usually, people stick to practices and tricks they’ve acquired reading that guide.

A Manager is an interface through which database query operations are provided to Django models. At least one Manager exists for every model in a Django Application.

A very simple example of a Manager is objects when used in a query such as:

Model.objecst.all()

This is the default Manager added by Django but you can…

How Django can help reduce vulnerabilities.

In the process of building a Web application, security measures are not often taken into account by the web developers, especially if you’re working with security experts — we tend to let them deal with the global aspect of security which is not always ideal.

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an online community that produces freely-available articles, documentation, tools, or security advises for web applications. …