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Django Round-Up #8

Hidee-ho Django Round-Up readers! We're back with issue #8: Featured A whole load of Kickstarting The post-mortem for Andrew Godwin's Kickstarter project to add schema migrations to Django core. He raised nearly £18k, via over 500 donations and plans to …
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Django Round-Up #7

Top o' the morning (or evening) Django Round-Up readers! Here's issue #7, hot off the presses: Featured Django 1.5.1 Released A minor release fixing a memory leak in 1.5 and some smaller non-critical bugs. Schema Migrations for Django Kickstarter Andrew …
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Playing with Pickle Security

Reading about the latest vulnerabilities in Rails, got me thinking about a similar issue we have in Python. It is well known that using pickle on untrusted data is insecure to the point of allowing arbitrary code execution. Or at …
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Django Round-Up #6

¡Buenos dias Django Round-Up readers! Here's issue #6 with lots of PyCon goodness: Featured Goodbye, Malcolm Today's round-up starts on a horribly somber note. The Django community lost one of its leaders last week when Malcolm Tredinnick passed away. He …
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/dev/loop4

Episode #3 of the /dev/loop podcast is live! Pete, Brian, and Yann discuss a/b testing, PaaS (Heroku, GAE, etc.), Django 1.5’s User model, and Firenze. You can watch the video above, or subscribe to one of our feeds below: Video …
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Django Round-Up #5

Hello and happy Friday Django Round-up readers! Without delay, here's issue #5: Featured Django 1.5 Released Django 1.5 brings in some great new features including the long awaited, configurable user model! "Experimental" Python 3 support landed and the docs have …
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Django Settings Parity: You're Doing It Wrong

A common paradigm in Django is to create different settings files for different environments (local, production, staging, etc.). Everyone has their own opinion on how to set these up (see ours here), that’s not what this post is about. Instead, …
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Django Round-Up #4

Happy Friday! Here's Django Round-up #4, hot off the presses... Featured Django Security Releases These fix a few new issues reported to Django's security team. One in particular requires the use of a new setting, ALLOWED_HOSTS . Be sure to …
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Django Round-up #3

Happy Friday! Django Round-up #3 is packed full of good info. Let's get started... Featured Everyblock Shutdown We start off with some sad news, Django BDFL Adrian Holovaty's brainchild, Everyblock, was abruptly shutdown by NBC News this week. Some of …
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Time Saved Working From Home

One perk Lincoln Loop and other companies with remote staff regularly cite is the lack of a commute. Nothing beats taking the Pajama Freeway to your home office. While reviewing my time entries for last year I started to wonder …