DIMMiN Notes

My working notes related to the development of dimmin.com.

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2023-11-25

  • Fixed the formatting / styling issues on my blog posts
  • I think I need to nuke my app

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2023-11-24

  • Updated the Staging environment with proper environment variables
  • Updated version of the Staging environment deploys Taskmaster App appropriately
  • Found out that the heroku git repo was up to date
  • Still not sure why it's not serving the correct CSS files...?

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2023-11-21

  • Fixed 500 error! Blog App and About App are now accessible on the DIMMiN App
  • Learned about Django's logging settings and created an environment variable that could adjust how verbose their outputs are
  • Rolled back code, will have to restart implementation of timezone functionality for the Taskmaster App

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2023-11-20

  • Downloaded a local version of my database
  • Learned how to back up my database
  • Learned that django admin view is incorrectly formatting HTML to initiate ckeditor
  • Downloaded and configured local access to my production DB to establish a live connection using pgadmin

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2023-11-19

  • Cleaned up my screwed up static file management system and learned the true meaning of christmas: that all apps can have their own custom static files.
  • Now I can actually alter and adjust the CSS / JavaScript for each individual app

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2023-11-18

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2023-11-17

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2023-11-16

  • Fixed up / removed unnecessary code used to run the About page
  • Created the task_log app
    • Made the task_log app accessible via the web app

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2023-07-27

  • Learned about the different paths required for static files (but still not exactly sure why)
    • Maybe the collectstatic command reduces file sizes or improves efficiency of the original STATICFILES_DIRS in production or something
  • Found out that the style.css page is in fact being referenced
  • Found out that the background parameter in the body tag in style.css is what changes the overall background of the site
    • This is where the nodes for Floaty Notes will need to float around
  • Found out that I can no longer alter this parameter after the Navigation section of style.css.

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2023-07-25

  • Finished the post and uploaded it here
  • Found out that some of my links didn't have a blank target, so the links wouldn't open a new tab they would redirect the user to a new page
    • Added target blanks to open new tabs
  • Deleted staticfiles folder and used the one true static folder for css/js utilities.

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