The following is the second installment of our Loop Letters series, an interview with Tracy Osborn.
Tracy is the author of Hello Web App, a book to help designers and non-programmers get up and running with Python and Django. Tracy …
We recently decided to the start a semi weekly written interview series of the humans behind programming, Loop Letters. What motivates these individuals? What sort of team culture are they working in? What hobbies are they good at? What hobbies …
Alternate title: Pip 7 is Awesome, Here’s Why
A typical Python deployment looks like this:
Pave the server, setting up a virtualenv and installing any pre-requisites necessary to build/install the Python requirements (compiler, development headers, etc.).
To update to a …
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Security Advisory: Arbitrary file inclusion through docutils
If you are allowing untrusted users to input reStructuredText which later gets passed through
docutils
, be sure to read this advisory to ensure your application is configured securely.
DjangoCon EU Talk …
At Pycon in Montreal few weeks ago I attended a talk that blew my mind away and got me thinking: Python concurrency from the Ground Up: LIVE! by David Beazley. The video is available on YouTube.
The gist of the …
Part of my job at Lincoln Loop is to explore new technologies and make sure that, as a company, we stay current. I’ve been playing around with Docker for a while, but recently decided to redeploy some of our production …
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DjangoCon US in Austin, TX
The website for this year's DjangoCon US officially launched (designed by us at
Lincoln Loop
). This year's conference is being run by a newly founded non-profit,
more details on the blog
.
Security …
One of the most common requests we’ve heard since releasing our book, High Performance Django is: “Do you have more code/configuration examples?” It’s a pretty loaded question because the book covers everything from Python code to deploying and configuring servers. …
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Django 1.8 beta 1 and 1.7.5 Released
Django 1.8 is one step closer to release and 1.7 has received a few bug fixes.
DjangoCon Europe 2015 Update
DjangoCon EU is just over a month away and tickets are going …
I received an email recently asking for assistance with an SVG icon issue. The individual explained that he was working with a lot of icons (about 300, which I would say qualifies as a “system”) as images and wondering if …
