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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 …

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Marco Louro August 31, 2015

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 …

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Marco Louro January 5, 2015

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 …

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Marco Louro August 13, 2014

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. …

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Marco Louro August 8, 2013

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 …

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Marco Louro November 2, 2012

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.). …

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Marco Louro December 18, 2009