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Gondola for Real Estate Launch

I’m pleased to announce that Gondola for Real Estate, our GeoDjango-backed real estate CMS is publicly accepting new customers. A …

Peter Baumgartner

Peter Baumgartner May 24, 2010

Lincoln Loop Development Sprints and Limited Time Discount

Today, we are launching a new offering at Lincoln Loop, development services paid by the sprint. Previously, our typical engagements …

Peter Baumgartner

Peter Baumgartner May 18, 2010

Installing GeoDjango Dependencies with Homebrew

Homebrew seems to be the hot new package manager for OS X, so while setting up a new system last …

Peter Baumgartner

Peter Baumgartner April 30, 2010

Pro Tip: Redirecting to a Custom Nginx Maintenance Page

Here’s one I struggled with a bit while upgrading lincolnloop.com yesterday. Scenario: You need to take your site offline and …

Peter Baumgartner

Peter Baumgartner Feb. 12, 2010

Running your own Self-Hosted Etherpad Instance

Etherpad is an amazing real-time collaborative editor with a very low barrier for entry (no logins, no additional software, etc.). …

Marco Louro

Marco Louro Dec. 18, 2009

The Last 10% or: How to Keep Your Software Development On Time and Under Budget

As Lincoln Loop has evolved and grown over the last year, we’ve learned a lot not only about software development, …

Peter Baumgartner

Peter Baumgartner Nov. 17, 2009

Django 1.0 Template Development Book Review

Packt Publishing was nice enough to send us a copy of Django 1.0 Template Development by Scott Newman for review …

Peter Baumgartner

Peter Baumgartner Oct. 15, 2009

Easy Fabric Deployment, Part 2: Multiple Committers and the Dreaded Umask

In part 1, we showed how we use Fabric to update and deploy Django sites to our development server with …

Peter Baumgartner

Peter Baumgartner Oct. 7, 2009

Easy Fabric Deployment, Part 1: Git/Mercurial and SSH

We’re firm believers in the practices described by the Continuous Integration method of software engineering. Among those are: Maintain a …

Peter Baumgartner

Peter Baumgartner Sept. 22, 2009

Using Django Inside the Tornado Web Server

Inspired by Eric Florenzano’s talk, Using Django in Non-Standard Ways (slides in PDF) at DjangoCon and the announcement of Tornado …

Yann Malet

Yann Malet Sept. 15, 2009