Announcing the Anvil Advent Calendar
We’re building a Python web app each day until Christmas. Join us on a festive Python adventure!
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1st December 2019
Announcing the Anvil Advent Calendar
We’re building a Python web app each day until Christmas. Join us on a festive Python adventure!
8th November 2019
Web development made simple
Ever wondered what it might be like to build, ship and deploy your web apps with nothing but Python?
You’ve come to the right place. Read on as we run you through Anvil’s key features, showing you what the platform is all about and what you can do with it.
30th October 2019
How Growing Vegetables Makes Me a Better Programmer
Mental health isn’t just absence of illness - you can also build up “mental fitness”. I do it in 100 square metres of government-subsidised mud.
7th October 2019
Web apps for sysadmins
As a systems administrator, you need to save time wherever you can.
You can use web apps to give your colleagues self-serve interfaces. They can run routine processes themselves, leaving you to do the hard stuff.
We show you how to build a self-serve web app with nothing but Python, in just 30 minutes.
30th September 2019
Full Interview: Anders Kalland, Platform Manager at RiksTV
TV is transforming, as streaming replaces traditional broadcasting.
Anders tells us how this caused a customer service crisis, and how he built the tool that solved it.
24th September 2019
Running Python in the Web Browser
There are many ways to run Python in the browser. At PyCon UK 2019, Shaun talked about six different approaches, showed how to use them, and compared their designs and tradeoffs.
9th September 2019
Announcing Scheduled Tasks
Anvil now lets you schedule Python tasks to run periodically in the cloud. It’s like cron, only much easier!
4th September 2019
How does digital broadcasting work?
Meredydd talks to Anders Kalland, who leads the internet broadcast team at Norway’s RiksTV network, and Anders tells us about the software he built to diagnose customer problems in real time.
14th August 2019
Timezone converter app
At Anvil we have a secret productivity weapon - Anvil itself!
I was sick of making timezone conversions in my head, so I built a timezone converter in 15 minutes.
2nd July 2019
Build a Dashboard with Python
This step-by-step guide shows you how to build a business dashboard in just a few minutes, using nothing but Python.
Plot data from an external SQL database, private database, a REST API and Anvil’s built-in database.
1st July 2019
Stories from the Workshop #2: Lightning AI
Meredydd talks to Colette Nataf, founder of Lightning AI, about her somewhat unorthodox journey to being the technical founder of a Silicon Valley startup.
24th June 2019
Raspberry Pi 4: Finally Fast Enough for a Web IDE
The $35 computer is all grown up - or is it? I gave it a road-test using a full Web-based Python IDE. And, I’ll be honest, it rocked.