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.

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

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.