Homebrew
seems to be the hot new package manager for OS X, so while setting up a new system last night, I figured I’d see how it handled installing all the
external libraries required for GeoDjango
. The answer I …
Here’s one I struggled with a bit while upgrading lincolnloop.com yesterday.
Scenario:
You need to take your site offline and want to redirect all its traffic to a “down for maintenance” page. For search engine friendliness, that page should return …
As Lincoln Loop has evolved and grown over the last year, we’ve learned a lot not only about software development, but also about all the things that accompany it like budgeting, estimating, and scheduling. Probably the most important one is …
Packt Publishing was nice enough to send us a copy of
Django 1.0 Template Development by Scott Newman
for review recently. I get most of my technical information via the web, so picking up a technical book was a nice …
In
part 1
, we showed how we use
Fabric
to update and deploy Django sites to our development server with a single command. This works great when you only have one developer pushing changes to the server, but what …
We’re firm believers in the practices described by the
Continuous Integration
method of software engineering. Among those are:
Maintain a code repository
Automate the build
Automate deployment
We use git for our code repositories and
Fabric
to automate our build/deployment …
Last month, Lincoln Loop gave a talk at
EuroDjangoCon
about customizing the Django admin interface. After presenting some of the admin customizations we had done on
Gondola
, I had a bunch of people get in touch with me asking …
I’ve always disliked the way named anchors (
<a href="#name">...</a>
) behave in browsers. It jumps your viewport to a different part of the page, but it’s rarely obvious which section you have landed on. If the page is long …
This post got a bit long-winded,
skip to the project announcment
if you prefer.
One of the things I love about Python and Django is the philosophy that
there is one obvious way to do things
. Standards make it …
While browsing the source code of President Obama’s latest web initiative,
recovery.org
, I noticed something of interest.
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=
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Drupal
.
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,
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