Asaf Zamir, Chief Technology Officer & AI/Cloud Consultant. Founder of CloudExpat, AZdev. Author of Coder to CTO.

Hello everyone! Today is a great day to release some projects to the wild!

Django Serializers are suppose to take entries from your DB and serialize in either Json or XML. The problem is, they’re not very customizable, and their defaults are not what I was looking for.

I've been developing with PHP well over a decade now. From editing and writing plugins initially for Phpnuke (yep), to working with most CMS's (Drupal, WP, Magento), and eventually MVC frameworks (CI, YII, KOHANA, etc.) I've learned the language's good sides, and bad sides.

I've been trying to make a template layout for Django that makes sense, something similar to existing PHP frameworks, where the head section is in one file, and the body is in another.

I'm working on this project that has some German titles, and a lot of irregularities inside them (question marks, underscores, etc.) Because I have to refer the object (in this case product) by some sort of understandable name, I've decided to slugify the title (basically turn …