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Fusionbox is proud to announce the beta release of our new decision tracker, Memorist.
Fusionbox at the Assistive Technologies Lab
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Fusionbox took a field trip to the Assistive Technologies Lab at CU Auraria to learn how to better build websites for all users.
Implementing a semaphore with Django and Postgres
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Recently I was working on a project that accesses a third-party webservice. The service does not handle concurrency well, and crashes if you send more than a few requests at the same time. To prevent it from getting overloaded, I implemented a semaphore with Postgres and Django.
Upcoming Event! Designing Microinteractions for Better UX
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Fusionbox will be hosting a session as part of Denver Startup Week! Join us on September 27th at 3pm to learn more about Designing Microinteractions for Better UX!
Partial Word Search With Postgres Full Text Search in Django
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Django provides support for using Postgres's full text search feature, but there is no way to use this Django support to achieve the partial word search functionality one might find easy to implement with Django Haystack and Solr. This post describes a simple way to enable partial word search in Django without having to rely on solr and Haystack by writing a small amount of raw SQL.
Enums: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
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Enums have been in Python since version 3.4. They're not the newest kid on the block, but many 3rd party libraries (Django included) still don't natively support them. Let's discuss the advantages and disadvantages of the new Enum module vs a simple dictionary.
How Fusionbox addresses security as a core facet of its culture
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There's a misconception that security can be added with a product or service, or worked into an existing codebase as an afterthought. However, achieving security requires conscious thought at every step of designing and implementing software, and every decision should take security considerations into account.
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This summer, I was fortunate to attend the PMI Women in Project Management Leadership Conference. The keynote and panel speakers spoke on a variety of relevant topics, but there was a common theme present: facilitating innovation. The conference provided some valuable insights on how we as project managers can act as effective facilitators to get the most from our teams.
Making a Django URL Resolver field: A Case Study
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Django offers developers the ability to create custom fields that use custom html widgets, but is it possible to build a field that asks a user to provide a number of inputs undetermined before runtime? I'll take a project—the development of a field that allows a user to resolve any URL on the site—and try to answer that question, digging deep into the internals of Django's fields and widgets along the way.
Choosing the Right Project Management Application
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There is no "best tool" for project management, but here are some considerations to make sure you choose the right one!