flawcode

Source code for the technology podcast

www.flawcode.com

Thank you for listening

Build instructions:

pull project files

git clone git@github.com:flawcode/website.git

install dependencies

pip install -r requirements.txt

initialise database and create migrations repository

create the database needed to store email addresses and initialise it.

python manage.py create_db
python manage.py db init
python manage.py db migrate

migration is done using the flask-migrate module.

sending email

some variables in settings.py need to be configured to be able to send emails.

MAIL_USERNAME = 'your@email.com'
MAIL_PASSWORD = 'yourpassword'
MAIL_DEFAULT_SENDER = 'your@email.com'

default smtp server is set to gmail.com and TLS is enabled. To change these settings edit the following variables:

MAIL_SERVER = 'your.smtpserver.com'

define port according to your server in MAIL_PORT

to enable TLS set MAIL_USE_TLS to True

to enable SSL set MAIL_USE_SSL to True

this server runs on nginx + gunicorn

the documentation is from this

• https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-serve-flask-applications-with-gunicorn-and-nginx-on-ubuntu-16-04
• https://www.nginx.com/blog/free-certificates-lets-encrypt-and-nginx/

Python

we are using python3.6 on ubuntu 16.10

to install python3.6 on ubuntu use the following tutorial

http://askubuntu.com/a/865569/499889

player design

http://www.eighty8design.co.uk/blog/build-responsive-audio-player-html5-sass-js-part-2/