All articles by Brandon Konkle

Last month I talked about one of my favorite tools for JavaScript on the front end, Browserify, which allows you to create modular code for the browser using CommonJS modules and npm. It does this by combining the dependencies into …

In May of last year, Facebook released an open source library for building frontend components called React. It’s built around some rather unorthodox philosophies about the browser and application structure, but over time it has gained quite a bit of …

We’ve all been there. You’re working on an project with a lot of JavaScript, and you need to add a new widget that depends on some libraries. You have a complex template structure and you don’t know which libraries have …

Grunt is a powerful task runner with an amazing assortment of plugins. It’s not limited to the frontend, but there are many frontend-oriented plugins that you can take advantage of to combine and minify your static media, compile sass and …

For a while now we’ve sent out a regular newsletter called the Django Round-Up, a collection of recent links, packages, and jobs in the Django community, curated by Pete Baumgartner. It’s a great resource for keeping up with the Django …

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, …

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 …

Episode #3 of the /dev/loop podcast is live! Brandon, Pete, Graham, and Yann discussed the new incredibly thin X1 Carbon laptop, Learn with Lincoln Loop, Django Weekly, Getting Started with Django, Android development, and working with VMs using virt-manager and …

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our premium screencast collection, Learn with Lincoln Loop. Over the years we’ve worked with a wide variety of technologies and techniques. With Learn, we’re making that accumulated knowledge available through high-quality, DRM-free …

Episode #2 of the /dev/loop podcast is live! Today I was joined by Pete, Graham, and Brian, and we discussed disk encryption and password sharing, client-side or server-side template rendering for Javascript, Django Rest Framework, and Graphite. You can watch …

This week’s episode of the /dev/loop podcast features Pete, Yann, Michael and Brandon discussing the Go programming language, the flexibility of SVG graphics on the web, and the ups and downs of the Bootstrap toolkit. You can watch the video …

Today, several members of the Lincoln Loop team recorded our first podcast, which we’re calling “/dev/loop”. Pete, Yann, Marco, Brian, and Brandon gathered together to discuss configuration management and Salt, Selenium testing in Django 1.4, and &yet;’s excellent Realtime Conference …

Part 1 | “Part 2”/blog/2011/oct/12/load-testing-jmeter-part-2-headless-testing-and-je/ | Part 3 A while ago, I wrote a couple of blog entries about load testing with JMeter. I promised a third entry covering how to use JMeter to replay Apache logs and roughly recreate …

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 …

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 …