I’ve come across tips on how to keep Docker images small and Dockerfiles with strange lines that seem to exist only to optimize image size. Well, it turns out they’re all wrong. They may have an effect with flat Docker images, but everything else (i.e. 99% of what people do), cleanup steps are just extra…
Read More Optimizing Docker Image Size For RealAt PyCon 2014, I learned about a package called “needle” from Julien Phalip’s talk, Advanced techniques for Web functional testing. When I tried using it with a Django project, I immediately ran into problems. The answer turned out to be “ignore the documentation”.
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So I made a silly thing one evening. I’ve embedded it above, and you can see the source at https://github.com/crccheck/boating-lake for more details about the inspiration and implementation. I thought my two readers might be interested in my process for preparing the graphics. Finding the source A quick Internet search revealed a clean source for…
Read More Boating Lake, aka Photoshop is still useful for the webIf you examine the repo, you’ll see it’s a Django app; and the Procfile and requirements.txt would make you think the app itself was deployed on Heroku, but you would be wrong! You may be surprised to find out that the Elevators Explorer is a static HTML app. Or maybe not if you read the…
Read More Dissecting Elevators Part 8: deployingWith almost 25 thousand buildings, having a way to search the database would be nice. And just like how I did geo searches client side, searching buildings was done client side too. The inspiration for the interface was The Texas Tribune’s Tribpedia landing/search page. The final building search page can be found at elevators.texastribune.org/building/ and…
Read More Dissecting Elevators Part 7: Search + D3Being able to locate the nearest elevator was a must have feature for me. Being able to deploy using the free tier on Heroku was a nice to have feature. Luckily, I managed to find a way to do both: do the calculations client side in JavaScript. Lucky for me, I found a post, Calculate…
Read More Dissecting Elevators Part 6: GeoDjango? We don’t need no stinkin’ GeoDjangoIntro: This is part five of an eight part series looking at the Elevator Explorer, a fun data interactive mostly coded between the hours of 10 PM to 2 AM during the week leading up to April Fools’ Day, 2013. I’m going to be looking at the things I learned, things I wish I could…
Read More Dissecting Elevators Part 5: nosql circa 1986Intro: This is part four of an eight part series looking at the Elevator Explorer, a fun data interactive mostly coded between the hours of 10 PM to 2 AM during the week leading up to April Fools’ Day, 2013. I’m going to be looking at the things I learned, things I wish I could…
Read More Dissecting Elevators part 4: Django Data Driven Documents