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In the previous blog post in this series, I created a Vagrant VM and provisioned it with Ansible for Python development. In this part, we’ll have a look at a larger application which is configured in the same way. In this post, I’ll introduce an application that I’ll be using for more blog posts in…

Exciting news for Linux users: you can now use snaps to install PhpStorm builds. Snaps will update your app automatically, and you’ll always have a fresh PhpStorm build right out of the oven. Snaps are really easy to install and use. On Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or later, snaps come pre-installed. On other L…

One of the things that could make developing cloud applications hard, would be differences between the dev environment and the production environment. This is why one of the factors of the twelve factor app is maintaining dev-prod parity. Today we’ll start a blog series about developing cloud applic…

When you work with remote servers, a common and recommended security measure is to use SSH key pairs for authentication. Our friends at PyCharm have prepared a great blog post on the topic. It explains how to generate an SSH key pair, store the passphrase for the private key in the credential hel…

September feels just right to start learning, or continue with even more effort and joy. And today feels just right for the next post in our series covering learning methods and tips & tricks designed to help you to learn more effectively and make you more excited about learning Python with PyCh…

Among other features introduced in 2017.3 EAP we mentioned the editor-based REST client, which offers a new approach to working with web APIs. Earlier, you could run your requests with the REST client built right into PhpStorm, but it required crafting each request by hand with lots of button cli…

PhpStorm updates are usually patch-based: they are applied to the existing installation and only require you to restart the IDE. Due to the current limitations of the update system, these patches can only be applied sequentially, on top of one another. For example, if you are using PhpStorm 2017.1.1…

This post continues the series of useful tips and tricks in RubyMine, and is devoted to using Live Templates. Please also check out the other recent posts uncovering navigation tips in RubyMine, and the 10 most useful shortcuts. What is Live Templates and why use it for Ruby on Rails Live Templates…

As some of you might know, until last week Reddit was open source. But we can still go to GitHub and check out a version of the source. So let’s go ahead and play around with it! Things you’ll need to follow along Reddit uses Vagrant to spin up a pre-configured development VM on demand. To be able t…

PyCharm Professional has long had great support for developing Django applications, including a run configuration tailored to the Django server. This winds up being a wonderful workflow, with a tool window showing the server output. https://youtu.be/zFuaU3Sl4-c Sometimes, though, you hit a problem…

Redshift is Amazon Web Services’ data warehousing solution. They’ve extended PostgreSQL to better suit large datasets used for analysis. When you hear about this kind of technology as a Python developer, it just makes sense to then unleash Pandas on it. So let’s have a look to see how we can analyze…