Today, we are launching a new offering at Lincoln Loop, development services paid by the sprint. Previously, our typical engagements involved a (sometimes lengthy) discovery, estimation, and bidding process. Lately, however, people have been asking us to jump in with …
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 …
Etherpad
is an amazing real-time collaborative editor with a very low barrier for entry (no logins, no additional software, etc.). In case you missed it, Etherpad was acquired by Google and after a community uproar decided to
release their code …
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 …
Inspired by Eric Florenzano’s talk,
Using Django in Non-Standard Ways
(
slides in
) at DjangoCon and the announcement of Tornado (
tornadoweb.org
), I decided to try building a small application using the Django Form library and Django …
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 …