Introducing Ginger
Our team of 10 is distributed across 8 countries and 3 continents. We have no central office. When we first started, a couple years might go by without ever meeting in person, now we meet in person for at least …
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Detecting File Moves & Renames with Rsync
Without patching, the rsync utility lacks support to detect when a file was renamed/moved across multiple directories inside the synced tree. There is a ––fuzzy option to save bandwidth by building upon similar files on the target side, but only …
Django Caching in the Real World: Part 1
When you develop a sizable content heavy web site you quickly learn, hopefully not the hard way, that caching is a very important piece of your infrastructure. The database servers are the typical bottleneck in high volume website.
Common wisdom …
Latest Work and New Client Availability
It’s been a while since we’ve posted anything here about Lincoln Loop, so it’s time for a quick update.
In short, we’ve been hard at work. In addition to having multiple speakers at DjangoCon, and starting work on an internal …
Load Testing with JMeter: Part 2 - Headless Testing and Jenkins Integration
Part 1 | “Part 2”/blog/2011/oct/12/load-testing-jmeter-part-2-headless-testing-and-je/ | Part 3
The Headless Horseman (Running JMeter in No-GUI Mode)
If you read Part 1 of my JMeter series, you now know how to create a JMeter performance test with as much complexity as …
Load Testing with JMeter: Part 1 - Getting Started
Part 1 | “Part 2”/blog/2011/oct/12/load-testing-jmeter-part-2-headless-testing-and-je/ | Part 3
Last week, Yann Malet and I gave a talk at DjangoCon about using performance analysis to spot bottlenecks in your application. Because of the somewhat broad scope of the talk, we were …
Sharing Sketches in a Remote Environment
I recently came across this article from EightShapes detailing how they are sharing sketches in a remote environment. Lincoln Loop is entirely remote and we’ve run into the same problem, but I’ll admit we haven’t been as MacGyver about solving …
Get your (arcade) game on!
We love the Django community and to show our thanks, we’re throwing a private party Wednesday night for DjangoCon attendees. After dinner (9-11pm), come on down to Ground Kontrol, Portland’s favorite classic arcade. We’ll have an open bar (while supplies …
Filtering Results from Coverage.py
Coverage.py makes it easy to see how much of your code is covered by your test suite. It can be configured to spit out reports in XML (for consumption by a continuous integration server like Jenkins), in HTML (for human …
Disabling South Migrations
It is often handy to disable (either temporarily or permanently) South migrations for an app. “Disable” in this context means preventing an app’s migrations from being executed so that the app is managed via syncdb while in this state. A …