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by rlawson 5y ago
Fair enough, I'm just a datapoint of one. YMMV
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by rlawson 5y ago
RDS - Aurora/Postgres flavor - small instance. Entire AWS bill was < $100/month to support 10k users - app load balancer - WAF rules - EC2 instance - RDS - Cloudfront I use fargate when deploying now to get out of box manageme
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by rlawson 5y ago
Asked one of the local investors and got steered to another company that was in the same business altho much bigger. Really just plain luck and I guess having a decent network.
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by rlawson 5y ago
Plain Django with html templates and some htmx/unpoly for fanciness
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by rlawson 5y ago
The reservation app was super simple so no real guidance there I'd recommend really getting familiar with the Django ORM so that you understand how it generates the schema and how to tweak it to get what you want. As far as inventory m
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by rlawson 5y ago
I can see that happening on a large codebase with a lot of devs. Being a Java guy, I organized all the business logic and db access into a service layer, added type info and wrote a decent amount of unit tests. I can't deny however th
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by rlawson 5y ago
Car reservation system for auto dealers (never got traction) Covid screening application (sold) Inventory management (initial clients in alcohol beverage bottling/distribution)
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by rlawson 5y ago
Django has allowed me to enjoy some side entrepreneurship. I have released three products as a solo part time dev that I would never have been able to do in a reasonable time using Java/Spring (my strongest stack). My first project wen
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by rlawson 5y ago
I put the computer chronicles on in the background while I code. It brings back happy memories of a time when the industry was a little less cynical.
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by rlawson 5y ago
The Computer Chronicles - old but captures that early spirit of anything is possible!
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by rlawson 5y ago
If writing a CRUD app - go Django if you like Python or Rails if you prefer Ruby. Most pages won't require any js but drop in React where needed.
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Ask HN: How do you write less JavaScript?
3 points by rlawson 5y ago|1 comments
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by rlawson 5y ago
Second Django/DRF, it's terrific
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by rlawson 5y ago
As always it depends. If you have an MVC app (Spring MVC, Struts, Stripes, etc) with minimal js and your teammates know jsp then it's fine. The syntax is clunky but IDE support is great. You can write custom tags easily to encapsulat
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by rlawson 5y ago
Second the recommendation for htmx. It is awesome.
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OP here - One of the things that really helped me get back into coding was to listen to podcasts. Especially "Django Chat" and "Talk Python to Me". I'd put them on while jogging and they really helped me to get a su
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by rlawson 5y ago
OP here - what I found fun about my Django projects was that I used very little javascript. Mainly bootstrap and a dash of htmx. Modern browsers are freaking fast at rendering html and with a light payload and proper CDN setup, it feels l
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Ask HN: Ever lost your love for coding? How did you get it back?
84 points by rlawson 5y ago|80 comments
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by rlawson 6y ago
I haven't started to use _hyperscript yet but htmx (by same author) has been a real pleasure to use with Django. SPA like behavior with 1/10th effort.
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by rlawson 6y ago
Great low code technology! This should accelerate usage
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by rlawson 8y ago
Nice work!
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by rlawson 9y ago
Haha good point. I guess I should have phrased this question differently. Stuff that you use that really helps and you feel should be more widely known
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Ask HN: What are some of your secret development weapons
2 points by rlawson 9y ago|3 comments
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by rlawson 15y ago
I am doing a similar analysis now and leaning towards Amazon EC2 for flexibility. I can deploy any of the standard PHP ecommerce engines. I think you will be rolling more of your own if you go with GAE. Although for a simple site that's not
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by rlawson 15y ago
Don't rule out just writing a mobile web app - then you get Android and iPhone. jquery mobile + phonegap are your friends!
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by rlawson 15y ago
Go see a good counselor. You may get better just with talk therapy or you may need some anti-anxiety meds. Either way a counselor will help you coordinate your options. I have noticed that programmers (myself included) tend to be an anxious
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by rlawson 15y ago
if you choose Java, don't slow yourself down with full J2EE stack. Stick with Tomcat + Stripes (or any MVC layer) + Hibernate or iBatis + Spring or Guice
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by rlawson 15y ago
if java then Stripes is lightweight but lots of features
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by rlawson 15y ago
hopefully your new company will be ok with using opensource components - so for sure read The Cathedral and the Bazaar by ESR
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by rlawson 15y ago
You hit the nail on the head. Java EE programming is consolidating into Spring programming. I think it is because Spring gives you a layer on top of the app servers that finally achieves the write once run anywhere as long as you stick with

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