BLOG

All articles by Marco Louro

Breaking the Rules and SPDY'ing Up our Website's Frontend

Last month I had some time to take a closer look at how our website was performing from a pure …

Marco Louro

Marco Louro October 17, 2024

Integrating Front-end Tools with Your Django Project

Front-end tools like Grunt and Gulp are becoming very widespread, and there’s good reason for it. The front-end code is …

Marco Louro

Marco Louro October 17, 2024

Introducing Amygdala, a JavaScript REST client

We’ve been working on a new UI and front-end architecture for our communication tool, Ginger. In doing so, we built …

Marco Louro

Marco Louro October 17, 2024

Installing Node.js and npm into a Python Virtualenv

With things like LESS and RequireJS, we’re starting to use Node.js’s npm (think pip for JavaScript) on every other project. …

Marco Louro

Marco Louro October 17, 2024

Introduction to Django Selenium Testing

If you’ve never heard of Selenium, put simply, it’s a tool that allows you to create tests that are run …

Marco Louro

Marco Louro October 17, 2024

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 October 17, 2024