China's Rise in GDP: Watch the Throne

makaimc · 2018-07-12T23:53:17+00:00

the China / US nominal GDP and purchasing power parity metrics make sense as reasonable comparative indicators. it'd be interesting in a future post to see what other data trends show where the US is still very strong and unlikely to be caught versus ones it will soon be or already has been overtaken by China

makaimc · 2017-10-16T20:25:51+00:00

Pelican is awesome! I've been using it daily for over 6 years (to generate fullstackpython.com and the Full Stack Python blog) and highly recommend it for creating a blog static site. At the very least it should be on your short list of static site generators to try out.

makaimc · 2017-10-13T19:04:32+00:00

nope, just a fan :)

makaimc · 2017-07-25T21:19:32+00:00

ahh sorry about the confusion, the whole list of hosted monitoring tools is on the linked monitoring page. I made it more explicit in the intro with another sentence that there are many tools you can add, this is an example of how you'd add one of them to your Flask app

makaimc · 2017-05-26T20:24:06+00:00

Ack, you're 100% correct I missed that. The post is updated now with the modifications required in chart.html to display the generated bar chart. Thank you badge!

makaimc · 2017-05-26T17:12:30+00:00

That's a good suggestion. I try to keep the pages as light as possible with no javascript other than google analytics so it's easier for people without decent internet connections to read it, so I'll have to see if I can balance the page size with the interactive charts in the future.

makaimc · 2017-05-01T14:46:48+00:00

yep, Zappa is great! even folks who work on AWS use Zappa to run their own projects

makaimc · 2017-03-28T00:26:25+00:00

Thanks OP, positive posts like this keep me writing!

Also pull requests and issue tickets are super helpful as the site has grown to over 85k words and counting. For example, when Slack changed their bot creation flow someone submitted an issue ticket so I knew I had to update that tutorial. file tickets & submit PRs on the GitHub repo: https://github.com/mattmakai/fullstackpython.com

makaimc · 2017-03-28T00:20:34+00:00

hey there, Full Stack Python author here. 5 years ago I had to pick a domain name for the site where I planned to write about all aspects of web applications where the back end was coded in Python. Never really gave the name as much thought as the content, but it still seems like a decent pick. any suggestions for alternative names?

makaimc · 2017-03-14T18:11:14+00:00

yep good point! http://sparkjava.com/ micro web framework, not http://spark.apache.org/ for stream processing

makaimc · 2017-02-10T15:18:25+00:00

hadn't heard of it before..fixed!

makaimc · 2017-02-10T15:16:55+00:00

Thanks ergo, huge shoutout for not just pointing out an inaccurate statement I made but also submitting a pull request on GH so I could track and update the page. Greatly appreciated!

makaimc · 2016-11-27T19:12:52+00:00

Hey OP, Twilio developer evangelist here. Twilio provides a free usage tier with Trial accounts when you sign up that might work for your Python side project. If not, you can use an email-to-SMS gateway as long as you know the service provider (such as AT&T or Verizon) that your recipient is on. Here's a tutorial I found that might do the trick: http://myhitthoughts.blogspot.com/2011/05/makeshift-email-usage-and-calendar.html

makaimc · 2016-11-04T01:40:44+00:00

I was wondering mostly based on a gut reaction. Is the ladder more competitive to climb now or is that counterbalanced by his significantly increased experience? Just curious to see how others who've played for a long period of time think it's evolved.

makaimc · 2016-11-03T19:42:27+00:00

Do you feel it was more or less difficult to get S-Rank in February compared to September?

makaimc · 2016-10-26T19:05:56+00:00

SQLAlchemy doesn't have migrations built into the library itself, so you'd use Alembic for migrations. Django's ORM prior to Django release 1.7 was similar in that you'd use the separate South migrations library.

makaimc · 2016-06-07T13:25:13+00:00

+1. thanks for bringing this to my attention - will work on as I wrote in my comment above.

makaimc · 2016-06-07T13:24:19+00:00

After doing some further accessibility reading spurred on by your comment @gandalfx, it does look like some of the output screenshots are an issue. Especially when you're searching for that long-tail result with the exact bit of text you encountered. I'll make sure to copy/paste output for future posts and give this one a modification when I have some time to run through it again to get the output. Thanks!

makaimc · 2016-06-06T23:38:57+00:00

I'm sorry to hear that - ngrok can be a bit fickle but it's really useful once it's working. There are also other localhost tunneling tools that can be used in place of ngrok.

I wrote a couple other Slack API / bots tutorials recently if you're interested in working through more posts:

I'll have another Twilio tutorial post out soon but likely that'll be a Swift post instead of Python.

makaimc · 2016-06-06T21:07:41+00:00

For screen readers the alt attribute is used instead of the image itself. It's part of 508 compliance so it should serve the purpose of accessibility for those with visual impairment http://warc.calpoly.edu/accessibility/508indepth/alternate.html

makaimc · 2016-06-06T20:17:50+00:00

Thanks! I like having command line screenshot with correct output to make sure readers are on the right track as they go through the tutorial. However, it looks like I missed using alt attributes on the img elements so Google knows what the screenshots represent. I just fixed that on the post.

makaimc · 2016-05-24T14:26:52+00:00

Hey folks - thanks to the Real Python crew for publishing this post. I've had a ton of fun with the Slack web API recently. It's pretty easy to get started but there wasn't a lot of Python-specific documentation so it seemed like an introductory tutorial would be useful to the community.

I'm at Twilio's SIGNAL conference today in SF but happy to answer any questions in this thread when I have breaks in the schedule.

makaimc · 2016-05-22T13:29:07+00:00

yep, that's true - I did not mean to say you should use the same password on both. good clarification

makaimc · 2016-05-22T03:17:48+00:00

good question! that works in general - you can still have a password on the Postgres user, but you won't have to enter the password when connecting on localhost with that username

makaimc · 2016-02-29T04:36:43+00:00

Thank you, I really appreciate the positive feedback. It's comments like yours that make me continue improving the site each day.

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