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Load Testing with JMeter: Part 1 - Getting Started

<p>Part 1</p><p>| “Part 2”/blog/2011/oct/12/load-testing-jmeter-part-2-headless-testing-and-je/ |</p><p>Part 3</p><p>Last week, Yann Malet and I gave a talk at DjangoCon about</p><p>using performance analysis to spot bottlenecks</p><p>in your application. Because of the somewhat broad scope of the talk, we were …</p>
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Get your (arcade) game on!

<p>We love the Django community and to show our thanks, we’re throwing a private party Wednesday night for DjangoCon attendees. After dinner (9-11pm), come on down to</p><p>Ground Kontrol</p><p>, Portland’s favorite classic arcade. We’ll have an open bar (while …</p>
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Filtering Results from Coverage.py

<p>Coverage.py</p><p>makes it easy to see how much of your code is covered by your test suite. It can be configured to spit out reports in</p><p>XML</p><p>(for consumption by a continuous integration server like Jenkins), in</p><p>HTML</p><p>(for human …</p>
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Disabling South Migrations

<p>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</p><p>syncdb</p><p>while in this state. A …</p>
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Resetting Your South Migrations

<p>Why?</p><p>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 …</p>
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Custom Filters in the Django Admin

<p>A few weeks ago Django’s team</p><p>revealed a data leakage bug in the admin application</p><p>that affects an extremely interesting and undocumented feature. A user that has access to a</p><p>change_list</p><p>page of an object in the admin interface can …</p>