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Django Round-Up #13

Happy Friday, here's Django Round-up, lucky number 13, hot off the presses. Featured Tunnel Lights Andrew Godwin's latest in his Django migrations epic. After years of planning, he finally has functional code working with the Django core. He describes some …
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/dev/loop5

Episode #5 of the /dev/loop podcast is live! Pete, Michael, Marco, and Yann talk about our emerging Salmon monitoring project, the growing world of JavaScript tools, and the challenge of web apps on mobile. You can watch the video above, …
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The Joy of Upstart

Upstart is a ridiculously easy way to turn your scripts into daemons. Take this python script: /home/myuser/ez_daemon.py: exec python /home/myuser/ez_daemon.py And that&#8217;s it! <ul> <li>sudo start ez_daemon</li> <li>sudo tail -f /var/log/upstart/ez_daemon.log</li> <li>sudo stop ez_daemon</li> </ul> You can do this for …
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Django Round-Up #12

Bienvenidos a Django Round-up #12! Featured Jeremy Dunck joins the DSF Board Jeremy Dunck, former Django Software Foundation secretary, was voted into the board seat vacated by Alex Gaynor (who left to become director of the Python Software Foundation). Andy …
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Introducing Salmon

Over the years, I’ve used a lot of server monitoring systems. Big enterprisey ones like Zabbix, Zenoss, and Hyperic, smaller ones like munin and monit, stuff in the middle like Graphite, and hosted solutions like New Relic. Throughout the search, …
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Goodbye Trailmapping

Trailmapping.com was a fun experiment with rapid development in Django I released almost 5 years ago now(!). I spoke about it at the first DjangoCon (also my first “real” talk in front of an audience). I didn’t give it much …
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Django Round-Up #11

Good day Djangonauts! Enjoy today's tasty slice of Django Round-up (#11)... Featured Django 1.6 alpha 1 Released It feels like 1.5 was just released, but 1.6 is already nearing completion. Major features include better (more secure) default settings and persistent …
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Django Round-Up #10

Greetings from Greece (γεια σας!) where Lincoln Loop is setting up camp for the week . Without further delay, here's Django Round-up #10. Featured Getting Started with Django, Lesson 4 The latest in the Getting Started with Django series. In …
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Lincoln Loop Retreat 2013

Over the last couple months we’ve been busy tying up loose ends and preparing for our first “official” company-wide retreat. Even though we’re a fully distributed team, we’re big believers in the power of meet-ups and face-time. They form bonds, …
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Django Round-Up #9

Happy May and welcome to Django Round-up #9! I have a special request for you, so please check the bottom of the email before clicking the "archive" button. Featured Django Software Foundation call for board nominations Alex Gaynor is stepping …