Forem: shelbysoutter

Merging with branches...the circle of life

shelbysoutter — Tue, 07 Jul 2020 14:29:34 +0000

Because I will likely forget all of the nuances of merging with branches to the main branch...

1) Merge remote main to local:

git checkout main

git pull origin main

2) Merge main to feature branch:

git checkout feature branch

git merge main

3) Merge feature branch to main:
open pull request and merge there

Django administration...

shelbysoutter — Sat, 27 Jun 2020 11:16:21 +0000

This is just a quick blurb about creating an admin username/password in the terminal in Django.

python manage.py createsuperuser

This will prompt a username, email, and password to be filled out. It's important to remember to do this within the Django file and poetry (or pipenv) shell.

My first endeavor with Django...

shelbysoutter — Thu, 25 Jun 2020 18:13:05 +0000

Hi, guys! So this is my first blog post, so I'll preface this with a little background before jumping into Django. I'm currently in an accelerated program learning software development in 16 weeks. Quite an endeavor. We just finished a month of learning frontend programming (HTML, CSS, JavaScript), and now we're on backend (Python and Django). All of that to say that these posts will probably lack in complete technical comprehension and are more a way for me to write out my thoughts as I am trying to learn/process all of this.

Our first assignment with Django basically involves breaking things until you figure out how they work together. We have the framework of an app that allows you to add a contact and then edit it. So far, I've been learning about migrations (similar to git push, but only when you change models.py), and the importance of doing them OFTEN, or else you'll end up with an incomprehensible string of errors. I recently created a new HTML page to set up a separate link so that you can click on a contact and each contact has a new page/url according to their respective pk. The difficulty so far is managing the amount of files and how everything is connected, but it's creating an even larger puzzle to solve, which is always exciting.