This is the seventeenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to deploy Microblog to a Linux server.

This is the sixteenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to add a full-text search capability to Microblog.

This is the fifteenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to restructure the application using a style that is appropriate for larger applications.

This is the fourteenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to add a live language translation feature, using the Microsoft translation service and a little bit of JavaScript.

This is the thirteenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to expand Microblog to support multiple languages. As part of that effort you will also learn about creating your own CLI extensions to the flask command.

This is the twelfth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to work with dates and times in a way that works for all your users, regardless of where they reside.

When working with web applications, it is often necessary to generate passwords, tokens or API keys, to be assigned to clients to use as authentication. While there are many sophisticated ways to generate these, in many cases it is perfectly adequate to use sufficiently long and random sequences of characters. The problem is that if you are doing this in Python, there is more than one way to generate random strings, and it isn't always clear which way is the best and most secure.

You would think that adding yet one more method to generate random strings would confuse things even more, but unlike all the other options, the new secrets module introduced in Python 3.6 is actually designed for this specific use case, so from my part it is a welcome addition to the Python standard library. In this short article I'm going to give you an overview of this new module.

This is the eleventh installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to replace the basic HTML templates with a new set that is based on the Bootstrap user interface framework.

This is the tenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how your application can send emails to your users, and how to build a password recovery feature on top of the email support.