Checking in for March for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

• Administrative focus: I've been doing a little more with what Merlin Mann has termed "Power Puttering". THis is where you go around the house and see …

I managed to complete the REST APIs with Django book this evening. I'm really pleased with bot the Django for Beginners book and the REST APIs with Django book simply because they're some of the best written books I've read. I can't say enough good things about these books. I …

Checking in for February for my "Designing a Well-Lived Life" blogging. This is about making small changes during the year to make larger changes.

• Administrative focus: I managed to migrate my Linode instances over to updated versions of Ubuntu, and have their configuration be in Ansible. This is a huge …

Since the last check-in I've been working on completing all but the last chapter of the REST APIs with Django book. I've learned about Viewsets with Django REST (which are really cool). One thing that I appreciated in the book was the mention about creating the views first, then figuring …

This week I made some more progress learning Django using the REST APIs with Django book. The section of the book I'm currently in talks about using the Django REST plugin for handling permissions. I like some of the defaults that are in there, especially the "SAFE_METHODS" macro (which are …