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A Look At SVG

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 …

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Introducing Amygdala, a JavaScript REST client

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 Round-Up #23

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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 …

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Django Round-Up #22

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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 Round-Up #21

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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 …

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Django Round-Up #20

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 …

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A Look at CSS Rule Organization

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 …

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Speedy Browserifying with Multiple Bundles

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 …