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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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Customizing the Django Admin at EuroDjangoCon 2009
Last month, Lincoln Loop gave a talk at EuroDjangoCon about customizing the Django admin interface. After presenting some of the …
Highlighting Named Anchors with jQuery
I’ve always disliked the way named anchors (<a href="#name">...</a>) behave in browsers. It jumps your viewport to a different part …
Django Best Practices
This post got a bit long-winded, skip to the project announcment if you prefer. One of the things I love …
Open Source Government
While browsing the source code of President Obama’s latest web initiative, recovery.org, I noticed something of interest. <script type="text/javascript"><!--//--><![CDATA[//><!--jQuery.extend(Drupal.settings, { …