Functions in JavaScript
3 ways to create functions in JavaScript
PyCon Africa Recap
In August 2019 I attended PyCon Africa in Ghana. I enjoyed the conference a lot because I got to meet many people I had only seen online. I wrote a re-cap article on Real Python about the conference and some of the talks I attended. You can read the article on Real Python.
Python: Get password from terminal without echoing
This is a short article about how to get a password from the terminal without echoing it back to the user as they type.
Working with the requests library
The requests library is one of the most popular Python libraries available. In this article, you’ll learn how to use requests to fetch resources from the web and also to interact with websites.
Interview With Ewa Jodlowska, PSF Executive Director
An interview with Ewa Jodlowska, Executive Director of the Python Software Foundation. We talk about the PSF, insights from the Python Developer Survey and more.
Custom template tags in Django
Learn how you can extend the Django template engine by defining custom template tags using Python, and then make them available to your templates using the {% load %} tag.
PyCon Africa Day 1
Thursday August 9 2019 was the second day of PyCon Africa in Accra. About 17 talks were delivered, including two keynotes. Below you’ll find a quick summary of the talks I attended. The pictures in the post aren’t great because they were either taken from a bad angle or using a smartphone. I’ll update this …
Creating and updating records using Django’s database API.
This article covers 6 common methods found in the Django Database API for creating, retrieving, and updating records.
Python hasattr() Function
A useful built in function in Python is hasattr(). This function is used to test if an object has some attribute. hasattr() returns True if the object you specify contains a particular attribute and False if it does not. hasattr() syntax: hasattr() takes two parameters: object. The object whose attribute you want to check attribute. …
How I started contributing to Open Source and stopped buying t-shirts
In this post, I am going to go down memory lane and talk about my contributions to one of the open source communities I contribute to: Mozilla.