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Django 1.7 Released
This is big news. Django 1.7 is a huge release, including database migrations and an app loading refactor (no more empty
models.py
files!). Lots of other goodies in
the release notes
.
DSF calls for applicants …
Last month, I presented High Performance Django: From Runserver to Reddit Hugs at DjangoCon US in Portland. My assertion was that Django, left to its own devices, does not scale. With the right supporting servers, however, it can scale fantastically. …
I’m excited to announce that our book, High Performance Django is officially complete. You can buy a copy at highperformancedjango.com now.
Thank You
Writing the book was hard work and there were definitely times where the challenge felt insurmountable. I …
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Django Security Releases
New security releases in the 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7 branches were made. They address multiple vulnerabilities. Make sure to review the notes to see if you are affected.
A thank you to the companies that …
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.
While SVG has actually …
We’ve been working on a new UI and front-end architecture for our communication tool, Ginger. In doing so, we built a new JavaScript library to communicate with our django-rest-framework powered API(s).
Inspired by hood.ie but aimed at custom API back-ends, …
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Django 1.7 release candidate 2
The 1.7 release is nigh! Lots of awesome improvements coming down the pike.
DjangoCon US Schedule Posted
The preliminary talk schedule for DjangoCon US was posted recently. It will be back in Portland this …
In the past month we worked to scale up botbot.me. 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 decided …
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Django 1.7 release candidate 1
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.
DjangoCon US Call for Proposals
The talk proposal deadline for DjangoCon …
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Django Security Releases
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 …
