Happy Friday, here's Django Round-up, lucky number 13, hot off the presses.
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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 …
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, …
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’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 …
Bienvenidos a Django Round-up #12!
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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 …
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, …
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 …
Good day Djangonauts! Enjoy today's tasty slice of Django Round-up (#11)...
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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 …
Greetings from Greece (γεια σας!) where
Lincoln Loop is setting up camp for the week
. Without further delay, here's Django Round-up #10.
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Getting Started with Django, Lesson 4
The latest in the Getting Started with Django series. In …
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, …
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.
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Django Software Foundation call for board nominations
Alex Gaynor is stepping …