I'm a designer turned web developer with a disability: Multiple Sclerosis. Technology helped save my career and my livelihood, so I want to pass along the knowledge.
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A lot of our emails at work are repetitive. This is especially true if you send work out for reviews, send frequent reports, or email reminders to people (agencies and digital marketing teams, I'm looking at you). So there's this thing in HTML called an anchor
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Watch or read: If you've ever been on a B2B website, there's usually at least one link throughout the site that is supposed to open an email for you. Maybe it's a "Contact Us" page and they've got a support
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It was inevitable. Now that Django has proven to work really well for so many various projects, what do we do when we're working on two or more projects at once? For example: I'm working on a website with one Django project, but I just started
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If you're interested in following along with the builds and tutorials here, you'll want to install python. Luckily, it's pretty simple to install. First head over to: https://www.python.org/downloads/ Click the big button under the heading that says it will download
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*You may need to make sure you're on the same wifi network as your TV if you have multiple available. 1. Open up your System Preferences on your iMac 2. Choose "Displays" 3. From the "AirPlay Display" selector, choose the Samsung TV from the
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I've been working on a model that had several foreign keys, like this: class CaseStudy(models.Model): company = models.ForeignKey( Company, on_delete = models.SET_NULL, null=True, blank=True ) quote = models.ForeignKey( Quote, on_delete = models.SET_NULL, null=True, blank=True, ) Problem was, in the admin,
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Certifications can be quick courses that give you both skills and a nice addition to your certifications collection on LinkedIn. I would keep an eye out for those courses, especially if they are free AND they are for concepts or tools you use frequently—or might be using in the
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The following references should help you work out better typography and, especially, better layouts on mobile or small screens when using translated / localized content. HTML Description Example / Use Case <wbr> Word break opportunity tag. Put this in the middle of long URLs or wherever you want to break
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Social media venues have taken steps a few years ago to mitigate dishonest / misrepresenting images when people share links to other websites. As a result, we no longer control what image pops up unless we have own the website. So...if you do have a website and you've
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This is a VERY watered-down guide for manually renewing the SSL with the following stack: * Server hosted on DigitalOcean * SSL from certbot has been installed previously and is up for renewal (see DigitalOcean's guide to setting up certbot). * Assumes you have a firewall on the droplet First, SSH
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There's a common mantra that you'll hear from developers: DRY! (Don't repeat yourself). While it may not be completely possible to achieve, it's a good rule of thumb to hold yourself to—especially if you're trying to eliminate or reduce
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Probably the most boring part of learning to code in the classroom...but in the wild, it is SUPER helpful for starting your project and also when you come back to it a week later. What is it? Why do I care? Pseudo code is fake code. It's