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<p>Featured</p><p>Django Security Releases Issued</p><p>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 …</p>

<p>With things like</p><p>LESS</p><p>and</p><p>RequireJS</p><p>, we’re starting to use Node.js’s</p><p>npm</p><p>(think</p><p>pip</p><p>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 …</p>

<p>Featured</p><p>Django 1.6 Beta 1 Released</p><p>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), …</p>

<p>For a while now we’ve sent out a regular newsletter called the</p><p>Django Round-Up</p><p>, a collection of recent links, packages, and jobs in the Django community, curated by</p><p>Pete Baumgartner</p><p>. It’s a great resource for keeping up with …</p>

<p>On the surface tmux manages your terminal windows, but really it helps you</p><p>stay focused</p><p>. The challenge with learning tmux is that the benefits are not immediately apparent. At first it’s just</p><p>screen</p><p>with vertical splits. In this post …</p>

<p>At Lincoln Loop, we have been building large web applications using Django since 2007. Recently, however, we have recently started using Go as a critical network component of</p><p>Botbot.me</p><p>.</p><p>Reading others’ successes stories about replacing some existing components of …</p>

<p>Happy Friday, here's Django Round-up, lucky number 13, hot off the presses.</p><p>Featured</p><p>Tunnel Lights</p><p>Andrew Godwin's latest in his Django migrations epic. After years of planning, he finally has functional code working with the Django core. He describes some …</p>

<p>Episode #5 of the /dev/loop podcast is live!</p><p>Pete</p><p>,</p><p>Michael</p><p>,</p><p>Marco</p><p>, and</p><p>Yann</p><p>talk about our emerging Salmon monitoring project, the growing world of JavaScript tools, and the challenge of web apps on mobile.</p><p>You can watch …</p>

<p>Upstart</p><p>is a ridiculously easy way to turn your scripts into daemons. Take this python script:</p><p>/home/myuser/ez_daemon.py</p><p>:</p><p>exec</p><p>python</p><p>/home/myuser/ez_daemon.py</p><p>And that&amp;#8217;s it! &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;</p><p>sudo start ez_daemon</p><p>&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;</p><p>sudo tail -f /var/log/upstart/ez_daemon.log</p><p>&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt;</p><p>sudo stop ez_daemon …</p>

<p>Bienvenidos a Django Round-up #12!</p><p>Featured</p><p>Jeremy Dunck joins the DSF Board</p><p>Jeremy Dunck, former Django Software Foundation secretary, was voted into the board seat vacated by Alex Gaynor (who left to become director of the</p><p>Python</p><p>Software Foundation). Andy …</p>