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Django Round-Up #19

Featured DjangoCon US Videos The full set of videos from DjangoCon US were released by Open Bastion. If you weren't able to attend in person, block off your schedule, start up your YouTubes and enjoy. Lincoln Loop's BotBot Tee What's …
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Django Round-Up #18

Featured Django Security Release Django 1.4.8, Django 1.5.4, and Django 1.6 beta 4 were released last week. They fix an easily exploitable issue with the password hasher that could lead to a denial-of-service attack. It is recommended that to upgrade …
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Django Round-Up #17

Featured DjangoCon US 2013 Last week DjangoCon US was held in Chicago, bringing together some of the best and the brightest in the community. While you'll still have to wait for the videos, many of the presenters have posted their …
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Django Round-Up #16

Featured A Plan Comes Together Andrew Godwin merged his migrations branch into Django master. This means, barring some horrible problem, we'll be seeing it in the 1.7 release of Django. Congratulations to Andrew on his monumental effort and getting this …
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Django Round-Up #15

Featured Django Security Releases Issued 1.5.2, 1.4.6, and 1.6 beta 2 were released to address two cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs found in Django. The release notes state that, "While these issues present limited risk and may not affect all Django …
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Installing Node.js and npm into a Python Virtualenv

With things like LESS and RequireJS, we’re starting to use Node.js’s npm (think pip for JavaScript) on every other project. However, installing Node.js globally means some dependencies are also installed globally, which might be a problem if different projects use …
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Django Round-Up #14

Featured Django 1.6 Beta 1 Released That was quick! Just four months after the release of 1.5, 1.6 is getting ready to spread it's wings. Big new features include persistent database connections (likely a nice speed improvement for many sites), …
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Django Round-Up

For a while now we’ve sent out a regular newsletter called the Django Round-Up, a collection of recent links, packages, and jobs in the Django community, curated by Pete Baumgartner. It’s a great resource for keeping up with the Django …
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tmux: Stay focused

On the surface tmux manages your terminal windows, but really it helps you stay focused. The challenge with learning tmux is that the benefits are not immediately apparent. At first it’s just screen with vertical splits. In this post I …
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A Djangonaut Building a Webapp in Go with Gorilla

At Lincoln Loop, we have been building large web applications using Django since 2007. Recently, however, we have recently started using Go as a critical network component of Botbot.me. Reading others’ successes stories about replacing some existing components of their …