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Flask Simple Basic Authentication
For my day job, I rebuilt the main site with Python, Flask Flask-SQLAlchemy & SQLite. (I chose SQLite over MySQL for simplicity reasons, but that may be changing) I am using Flask-HTTPAuth to access a few individual pages for admin reasons, so I don’t need to secure the whole site. For the moment, I thought using…
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Twilio, a lovely platform
I discovered Twilio a couple years ago when beginning to build my app, Alertyoself. Twilio is a cloud communication platform that handles the difficulty for you. (This is not a paid advertisement, I just really like their service) Recently, I played with their new verification service, and I admit it is pretty nice. To be…
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Backend Check In
Since my last post, I have kept at it, building the backend to my app (and rebuilding the app itself). A lot of time has been taken up by figuring out what to use. I believe I have settled on Alamofire for the network connection to the “API” (quotes are used here because it is not…
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Evolution of My View of Programming
An interesting thing happened yesterday… The backstory: I was instructed to change some titles on webpages for the day job, and they needed to be under 60 characters. There are PLENTY of places online where I could have entered text to get a character count, but I thought to myself, “I know how to do this in…
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No Replacement for the Real Thing
If you have read this blog before, then you know I have done plenty of tutorials. With this practice, comes plenty of repetition. And while in the middle of the tutorial, I understand what I am doing. But once it is completed, I am left with an overall understanding (which is not a bad thing…
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More with Udemy and Python
Another tutorial has fallen before me!!! This time, I have taken down REST APIs with Flask and Python. This one was more enjoyable than the previous course. I felt it was more on point for the description, but we also went down a possibly “unneeded” rabbit hole. (These opinions may be coming from my inexperience as…
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La Petit Errors
Let me say, there is probably no such thing as a tiny error. The devil is in the details. And apparently the bane of my existence… Recently, two tiny, major errors caused me to waste time on items I should not have. The first error involves modifying a tutorial. For project details, you can see it here.…
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Completion! (Mostly…)
Looking back over some the items I have been trying to learn, I have decided to narrow my focus. It has been getting waaaaay too broad. Primarily, I am cutting out data analytics and Docker for now. I need to figure out how to use the current tools well before jumping in to specialty items…
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edX Comes to the Rescue
After deciding to not complete (and pay for) the 30 Days of Python, I turned my sights back to edX! I have started the course Using Python for Research, and have just completed the homework for week 2. The homework for week 1 threw me for a loop, and to be honest, I did not complete…
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30 Days of Python
Today I am starting 30 Days of Python by Coding for Entrepreneurs. It may not take me 30 whole days, as I have a little python experience and some of it may be review. I will not rush through any of it. I will complete it, while making the best of the experience alongside some…