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Topics

Python & Django

• A tested example of GFK fields
• Django migrations on a Lino site
• The Python serializer
• Lino utilities
• Polymorphism
• Server startup signals
• About formatting
• Generating HTML
• Manipulating dates and time
• Why Lino doesn’t use ManyToManyField
• Database overview
• About data elements, atomizers & Co
• Form Layouts

Actors and actions

• Introduction to actors
• Introduction to actor parameters
• Using action requests
• Introduction to action parameters
• Permissions
• About CRUD operations
• Single-row tables

Database

• Data migrations à la Lino
• Customizing your querysets
• GenericForeignKey fields
• Remote fields
• The inject_field() function
• Multi-table inheritance (MTI)
• Is MTI a bad thing?
• Customize delete behaviour
• lookup_or_create and the auto_create signal
• Multi-table inheritance
• The Model class
• Tuning SQL queries

Printing

• Developer intro to printing
• About cached temporary data
• Introduction to Front end Renderers
• Templates

Contacts & calendar

• The Human mixin
• The Born mixin
• The lino.utils.addressable module
• Defining holidays
• Reading data from Belgian eID cards

Business

• Accounting stuff in Lino
• Adding IBAN numbers
• VAT number validation using VIES
• Lino and eInvoicing (PEPPOL)
• Running a POS with Lino

The web front end

• Answering to invalid requests
• Delayed values
• Refusing permission to an anonymous request
• Utilities for generating JavaScript code
• Generating HTML
• react: a Lino front end based on React

See also the React Developer Guide

About plugins

• About plugin libraries
• Plugin inheritance
• Plugin collaboration
• About requirements

Getting acquainted

• The languages of a Lino site
• Some more layout examples
• Online registration
• The SiteConfig object
• Bleaching
• Stories
• ElementTree
• Dynamic tables (Matrixes)
• Fields with an input mask
• Overriding virtual fields
• The Qt front end
• Local customizations to the user permissions
• Table views with dynamic columns

Languages

• Introduction to internationalization (i18n)
• Using mldbc with different variants of a same language
• Lino in Bengali
• Multilingual database content

Internationalization

• Demo names
• How to contribute translations
• Lino in Bengali

Internals

• How Lino applications use setup.py

Write docs

• The show() function

Other

• Testing pages
• Responsive design
• Diamond inheritance
• About analysis
• About django-admin commands
• Screenshot tours
• Social Authentication
• What is an application?
• More about combo boxes
• Chooser examples
• Demo projects
• UI tests
• The front end
• Rename “master” to “main” in our repositories
• Stories
• Multilingual end-user documentation
• The Python serializer
• Interactions between apps
• Names, labels, and titles
• Settings inheritance
• About SVN
• User and permission management in Lino
• GPDN - General Public Database Network
• South cheat sheet
• Learning Vim
• Lino and Django
• Lino internals
• XML reports reference
• About site data
• Lino and local files
• Lino and Qooxdoo
• Truncating HTML texts
• The get_change_body() method
• The commondata packages
• Coding style
• Debugging generated ExtJS JavaScript code
• Repairing data

Simulate a production site

• Setting up a simulated production server
• Simulate a HTTPS server on your development machine
• About logging
• How to set up a site with a MySQL database

Thanks to

• Thanks to

Newbies corner

• Learning resources
  • Python
  • Bash
  • Django
  • Sphinx
  • SQL
  • Git
  • HTML, CSS and JavaScript
  • Databases
  • Software development in general
• Python crash courses
  • What is sys.argv
  • What is os.environ
  • About class inheritance
  • What means “yield”
• Python for kids