<p>I just finished reading the copy of</p><p>Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging</p><p>by Karen M. Tracey provided to us for review by Packt Publishing. For those of you who don’t know, Karen is a</p><p>core developer of Django</p><p>and her …</p>
<p>I’m pleased to announce that</p><p>Gondola for Real Estate</p><p>, our GeoDjango-backed real estate</p><p>CMS</p><p>is publicly accepting new customers. A couple weeks ago, we quietly re-launched</p><p>gondolacms.com</p><p>with some details about the platform and what it has to offer, …</p>
<p>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 …</p>
<p>Homebrew</p><p>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</p><p>external libraries required for GeoDjango</p><p>. The answer I …</p>
<p>Here’s one I struggled with a bit while upgrading lincolnloop.com yesterday.</p><p>Scenario:</p><p>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 …</p>
<p>Etherpad</p><p>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</p><p>release their code …</p>
<p>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 …</p>
<p>Packt Publishing was nice enough to send us a copy of</p><p>Django 1.0 Template Development by Scott Newman</p><p>for review recently. I get most of my technical information via the web, so picking up a technical book was a nice …</p>
<p>In</p><p>part 1</p><p>, we showed how we use</p><p>Fabric</p><p>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 …</p>
<p>We’re firm believers in the practices described by the</p><p>Continuous Integration</p><p>method of software engineering. Among those are:</p><p>Maintain a code repository</p><p>Automate the build</p><p>Automate deployment</p><p>We use git for our code repositories and</p><p>Fabric</p><p>to automate our build/deployment …</p>
