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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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
a lot
about how to use the framework to …
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!
Moving forward, we're considering a monthly format instead …
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 …
Last month I talked about one of my favorite tools for JavaScript on the front end,
Browserify
, which allows you to create modular code for the browser using CommonJS modules and npm. It does this by combining the dependencies …