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Serving part of a web application as a python package for people to install, ok to do?
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To preface, I am building a database for the construction of a timing detector. However, I am very new to software engineering and database development. I have been building a website using ...
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How encrypting website data works
If i wanted to encrypt a password on my website before its sent to the server, would i have to encrypt the password in javascript on the frontend for it to be hidden over the interent or could it be ...
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What is a good approach to handling exceptions?
I have trouble reconciling "best practices" and real-world approaches to handling exceptions. In my day to day routine, I find myself running into the following examples:
try:
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Abstracting a set of services behind a common interface
Yay or nay? I have several related but separate services that are to be run in different processes. They execute a particular task unique to the service. Their call signature is similar, but the name ...
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An approach to send the contents of a file on the server to the client in real-time
I have a relatively simple front in good ol' JQuery, that makes a POST Request to a Flask Python web server, that runs a Python script using the subprocess module. Here's the whole route for ...
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Choosing the right architecture for my web application
I've started working on my web application and I'm stuck at the design stage. I cannot decide which web technologies would be the most suited to this project. Let me explain what I want to achieve:
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How to manage an existing web application?
I am a student that will finish his degree in like 7 months. I have a side job where I am the only programmer for a small company. The web application is for invoices and employee working hours. This ...
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Options to handle large (multi-gigabyte) file uploads
How would you implement a very large file upload functionality with a Django application and S3?
In my side job as a photographer, I have several clients for which I have a need to share multi-...
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Options for the RESTFul approach for follow and unfollowing
I'm looking at implementing a new RESTFul call where a User can follow/unfollow a generic 'thing' item, but I need to know the best or common approach below, 1 or 2?
1) A GET or POST on the ...
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Developing an app using Django. Do I design front-end after app? Or develop Django to fit UI? [duplicate]
Edit: this differs from a similar question because I'm interested specifically in how Django works with the front-end. I.e. what is considered best practice when developing using the Django framework.
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Am i looking at HTML / Django the wrong way? [closed]
So I'm comfortable programming in Python, I love the minimalist nature of the language. However, I haven't been exposed to any Django yet.
I do know html, css etc for web design but when making ...
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Can I use Qt open-source for my web-scraping website? [closed]
I apologize if I should be understanding this more readily but I'm a little new to this and dont understand the LGPL license. Here is the FAQ for it: http://www.qt.io/qt-licensing-terms/
I am making ...
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What's special about "non-blocking" node.js?
In the short chapter, What is Node by McLaughlin, he writes:
"Node has no blocks, no threads competing for the same resource (Node
is happy to just let things happen however they happen), nothing ...
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Is there a way to efficiently allow a user to upload multiple content at once for e-commerce type sites?
Sellers on large sites like Amazon and Newegg need to provide names, descriptions, and images for their products to be displayed on the e-commerce sites.
These sellers could have 10000+ products to ...
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How do we pass data between two Amazon instances?
I'm trying to create a website where the user enters a few numbers, these numbers are fed into some equations, and the output of these equations is emailed to the user. I'm using Python 2.7 for ...
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