how-to

📚 Doing all sorts of things, the DataMade way

What's this?

Here at DataMade, we do a lot of computer programming. In the spirit of better living through documentation, we're preserving guides to how we do that here.

Contents

In alphabetical order and including links to external repository-based documentation.

• Charting
  • Highcharts
• Continuous Integration (CI)
• Deployment
  • Amazon Web Services (Legacy)
  • Heroku
    • Deploy a Django app to Heroku
    • Scheduling tasks
  • Netlify
    • Deploy a static site to Netlify
  • Database backups
  • Domain names
• Django
  • django-compressor
  • Django-React Integration
  • File uploads
  • Forms
  • Translation
  • Wagtail
  • Serializing GeoJSON data
• Docker
  • Docker for local development
  • Templates for containerizing your application
• Ecommerce
  • Stripe
• ETL
  • GNU Make and preferred Unix utilities
  • Schema validation
• GatsbyJS
• Logging
  • Sentry
  • Slack
• Mapping
  • Google APIs (Maps, Geocoding)
  • Leaflet
• PostgreSQL
  • A quick and dirty introduction to sqlalchemy
  • Interacting with a remote database
  • Dumping and restoring a Postgres database
  • Dockerizing Postgres
• Python
  • Python project documentation
• Reproducible data analysis
• Scraping
  • lxml for web scraping
• Searching data
• Security
  • GPG and Blackbox
  • Crypto checklist
• Accessibility
• Software testing
• The shell and Ubuntu
  • tmux, best practices
  • How to move a gpg key between servers
• Work practices
  • Environment setup
  • External meetings
  • Investment time
  • Remote work
  • Project management
    • Project collateral
  • User research
  • Version control
    • Best practices for working with source control
    • Changing your default branch to main

Contributing

The process for making changes to the DataMade Stack, and by extension this repo, is documented in CONTRIBUTING.md.

Code of Conduct

The Code of Conduct in this repo follows the DataMade Anti-Harassment Policy and Procedures, and is documented in CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md.