Building realtime applications is a big change from how we’ve built websites in the past. Typically, realtime websites require each client holding open a long-running connection to the server so updates can be pushed down to the client immediately. This …
Grunt
is a powerful task runner with an amazing assortment of plugins. It’s not limited to the frontend, but there are many frontend-oriented plugins that you can take advantage of to combine and minify your static media, compile sass and …
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DjangoCon US Videos
The full set of videos from DjangoCon US were released by Open Bastion. If you weren't able to attend in person, block off your schedule, start up your YouTubes and enjoy.
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Django Security Release
Django 1.4.8, Django 1.5.4, and Django 1.6 beta 4 were released last week. They fix an easily exploitable issue with the password hasher that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. It is recommended that to upgrade …
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DjangoCon US 2013
Last week DjangoCon US was held in Chicago, bringing together some of the best and the brightest in the community. While you'll still have to wait for the videos, many of the presenters have posted their …
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A Plan Comes Together
Andrew Godwin merged his migrations branch into Django master. This means, barring some horrible problem, we'll be seeing it in the 1.7 release of Django. Congratulations to Andrew on his monumental effort and getting this …
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Django Security Releases Issued
1.5.2, 1.4.6, and 1.6 beta 2 were released to address two cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs found in Django. The release notes state that, "While these issues present limited risk and may not affect all Django …
With things like
LESS
and
RequireJS
, we’re starting to use Node.js’s
npm
(think
pip
for JavaScript) on every other project. However, installing Node.js globally means some dependencies are also installed globally, which might be a problem if different projects …
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Django 1.6 Beta 1 Released
That was quick! Just four months after the release of 1.5, 1.6 is getting ready to spread it's wings. Big new features include persistent database connections (likely a nice speed improvement for many sites), …
For a while now we’ve sent out a regular newsletter called the
Django Round-Up
, a collection of recent links, packages, and jobs in the Django community, curated by
Pete Baumgartner
. It’s a great resource for keeping up with …