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 into …
In May of last year, Facebook released an open source library for building frontend components called React. It’s built around some rather unorthodox philosophies about the browser and application structure, but over time it has gained quite a bit of …
We’ve all been there. You’re working on an project with a lot of JavaScript, and you need to add a new widget that depends on some libraries. You have a complex template structure and you don’t know which libraries have …
Varnish Saint Mode is a lesser known gem inside varnish that lets you serve stale content from cache, even when your backend servers are unavailable.
This article explains how to configure varnish to take advantage of this feature. If you …
Building realtime applications is a big change from how we’ve built websites in the past. Typically, realtime websites require each client holding open a long-running connection to the server so updates can be pushed down to the client immediately. This …
2013 was an amazing roller coaster year at Lincoln Loop. This is a long post, so I’ll skip the intro and dive right in.
Company Accomplishments
Of all the things we did and built, I’m most proud of what we …
Grunt is a powerful task runner with an amazing assortment of plugins. It’s not limited to the frontend, but there are many frontend-oriented plugins that you can take advantage of to combine and minify your static media, compile sass and …
