Deep insights from our research and experience

Thumbnail image for Django Round-Up #29

Django Round-Up #29

Featured Django 1.8 alpha 1 released The next version of Django hit alpha stage and should be hitting beta this week. This is another big release, including two crowdfunded initiatives, Marc Tamlyn's Postgres contrib module and Aymeric Augustin's multiple template …
Thumbnail image for Introducing Flexbox Fridays

Introducing Flexbox Fridays

Flexbox is everywhere right now. Well, talk of flexbox is everywhere, not so much its implementation just yet. We have been tinkering with it quite a bit these days and thought it might be handy to share these explorations. Each …
Thumbnail image for Django Round-Up #28

Django Round-Up #28

Featured PyCon 2015 Talk Schedule PyCon will be returning to Montréal this April and the talk schedule was just announced. At least one Django talk is on the docket, but there's always a lot to offer here for Django devs. …
Thumbnail image for Server Migration for BotBot.me

Server Migration for BotBot.me

Last week Vitaly and I migrated BotBot.me to new servers and also launched a redesign of the user account section. You can now support us by becoming a subscriber for $3/month and even log personal channels for $2/month. If you …
Thumbnail image for Django Round-Up #27

Django Round-Up #27

Featured Django Websites Redesign Ok, so this didn't happen in November, but it's too big not to include. For the first time since it's public launch nearly 10 years ago, www.djangoproject.com got a redesign. Congrats to everyone involved. DjangoCon Europe …
Thumbnail image for Smarter Input Groups with Flexbox

Smarter Input Groups with Flexbox

If you have ever built a form using Bootstrap you have undoubtedly worked with input groups. Input groups are an excellent way to provide contextual help via iconography or associate specific actions with the appropriate field. However, they can be …
Thumbnail image for Rate Limiting with Nginx

Rate Limiting with Nginx

Do you manage a website? Does it have a login form? Can somebody brute force attack it with every common username/password combination until they find one that works? For many small web applications, the answer to all of the above …
Thumbnail image for Django Round-Up #26

Django Round-Up #26

Featured Django Bugfix Releases An incremental bugfix release was done for Djangos 1.4.x-1.7.x. The older ones are pretty minor, but there's a laundry list of fixes in 1.7.1 that are worth checking out. Inagural Django Fellows Announced For the first …