It is often handy to disable (either temporarily or permanently) South migrations for an app. “Disable” in this context means preventing an app’s migrations from being executed so that the app is managed via
syncdb
while in this state. A …
Why?
A common question from South users is how to reset the migrations back to an initial state. The reasons for doing this are often related to the number of migrations growing steadily over the life of the project. You’ve …
A few weeks ago Django’s team
revealed a data leakage bug in the admin application
that affects an extremely interesting and undocumented feature. A user that has access to a
change_list
page of an object in the admin interface can …
Fellow Lincoln Looper, Martin Mahner, posted an excellent write up on
how to use proxy models to separate staff and user accounts in Django’s admin
. We frequently have a need for this in client projects, but people don’t often …
Recently we noticed some intermittent slow downs with our Gondola sites and wanted to track down the source of the issue. Our sites are all Django projects served by Apache/mod_wsgi behind an Nginx frontend proxy. Nginx’s upstream module makes the …
We’re looking for a Django developer to join
our team
. With the impending departure of
Armin Ronacher
to finish his degree, we’re going to be at least one developer short this Fall. We’re looking for somebody who can jump …
I just finished reading the copy of
Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging
by Karen M. Tracey provided to us for review by Packt Publishing. For those of you who don’t know, Karen is a
core developer of Django
and her …
I’m pleased to announce that
Gondola for Real Estate
, our GeoDjango-backed real estate
CMS
is publicly accepting new customers. A couple weeks ago, we quietly re-launched
gondolacms.com
with some details about the platform and what it has to offer, …
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 …