All articles tagged Development

In the past month we worked to scale up

botbot.me

. Every few days the bot would get stuck in a deadlock situation that caused outage of the logging service. I had some time in front of me that I …

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Django 1.7 release candidate 1

Django 1.7 is creeping towards an official release. Lots of changes in this one including an app loading refactor and built-in schema migrations.

DjangoCon US Call for Proposals

The talk proposal deadline for DjangoCon …

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Django Security Releases

Django 1.4.13, 1.5.8, 1.6.5 and 1.7 beta 4 were released to address an issue with caches serving private data and URL validation allowing redirects to malformed URLs. These issues likely affect a majority of users and …

I'm really excited to (finally) announce that we are writing a book! We've been working with Django professionally for a long time (over 7 years now). During that time, we've learned

a lot

about how to use the framework to …

Hi there! As you probably noticed, Django Round-up has been on hiatus for the last few months. We got busy and the newsletter fell by the wayside. Sorry for leaving you hanging!

Moving forward, we're considering a monthly format instead …

CSS preprocessors have given us a handful of tools to re-architect our front-end code. We can keep things DRY with includes and extends or perhaps use nesting for code organization. All of these features allow a CSS rule to grow …

Last month I talked about one of my favorite tools for JavaScript on the front end,

Browserify

, which allows you to create modular code for the browser using CommonJS modules and npm. It does this by combining the dependencies …

In May of last year, Facebook released an open source library for building frontend components called

React

. It’s built around some rather unorthodox philosophies about the browser and application structure, but over time it has gained quite a bit …

We’ve all been there. You’re working on an project with a lot of JavaScript, and you need to add a new widget that depends on some libraries. You have a complex template structure and you don’t know which libraries have …

Varnish

Saint Mode

is a lesser known gem inside

varnish

that lets you serve stale content from cache, even when your backend servers are unavailable.

This article explains how to configure varnish to take advantage of this feature. If you …