<p>Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. These graphics can consist of paths, shapes, and/or text that can be scaled and resized without losing image quality like a bitmap would.</p><p>While SVG has actually …</p>
<p>We’ve been working on a new UI and front-end architecture for our communication tool,</p><p>Ginger</p><p>. In doing so, we built a new</p><p>JavaScript library</p><p>to communicate with our</p><p>django-rest-framework</p><p>powered API(s).</p><p>Inspired by</p><p>hood.ie</p><p>but aimed at custom API …</p>
<p>Featured</p><p>Django 1.7 release candidate 2</p><p>The 1.7 release is nigh! Lots of awesome improvements coming down the pike.</p><p>DjangoCon US Schedule Posted</p><p>The preliminary talk schedule for DjangoCon US was posted recently. It will be back in Portland this …</p>
<p>In the past month we worked to scale up</p><p>botbot.me</p><p>. 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 …</p>
<p>Featured</p><p>Django 1.7 release candidate 1</p><p>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.</p><p>DjangoCon US Call for Proposals</p><p>The talk proposal deadline for DjangoCon …</p>
<p>Featured</p><p>Django Security Releases</p><p>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 …</p>
<p>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</p><p>a lot</p><p>about how to use the framework to …</p>
<p>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!</p><p>Moving forward, we're considering a monthly format instead …</p>
<p>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 …</p>
<p>Last month I talked about one of my favorite tools for JavaScript on the front end,</p><p>Browserify</p><p>, which allows you to create modular code for the browser using CommonJS modules and npm. It does this by combining the dependencies …</p>
