It is time for us to take our Python and Django skills to building a full application.  This is part two in a two-part series of tutorials where we build an application from scratch.  This series will walk through all the steps required to build your own solution. A Python/Django Site Monitor The application we build is a web solution for monitoring web sites and API end points.  We can configure the application to simply do a heartbeat check or validate the content returned.  This second part of the series focuses on the back-end python code.  This is the “guts” of doing the checks and scheduling them.  The bulk of our tutorial covers the Django steps, but there is plenty... Read more

Our series on Python and Django moves into a focus on testing.  Fortunately, unit testing is very easy to incorporate into your solution.  We can provide some basic unit tests within minutes and improve the overall quality of our applications. A Built-In Solution Quality assurance is an important facet of software development and unit testing in Python is an example of how pervasive it has become.  The designers of the language have given us tools to follow these practices.  This tutorial walks through the basic setup and configuration of our application whether it is Python or Django.  We then create a few unit tests that can be a basis for your own needs.   The Mentor-Mastermind Group This series comes... Read more