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Last year Drexel University, in partnership with the Big Cities Health Coalition, contacted us to build a website to visualize health data for urban areas in the United States. Their data analysts gathered data around metrics like HIV infections, COVID …

Our venerable IRC logger, BotBot.me logged its first lines in the summer of 2012 . Since then, it has logged over 100 million lines for more than 400 IRC channels, primarily on the Freenode and Mozilla networks. Despite the rise …

April marked Lincoln Loop’s 10th anniversary in business. As I reflect on that, I find myself going through all the typical platitudes: it’s been a roller-coaster ride, how proud I am of the team, looking forward to another 10 years, …

Featured Django 1.9 release candidate 1 released Last month, saw the release of 1.9 RC1 (now official). It’s the first official non-LTS release since the new release process was formalized . Bugfix release issued: 1.8.6 1.8.6 fixes a handful of …

This post was created as a collaboration between Lincoln Loop and Maciej Fijalkowski from baroquesoftware.com. In the space of web architecture, the prevalent belief states that “database based applications are I/O bound”. While this might have been true in the …

Featured Bugfix release issued: 1.8.5 A handlful of bugs in the 1.8 release series have been resolved in the latest release. Django 1.9 beta 1 released 1.9 brings a lot of new features including password validators, parallel tests, a Postgres …

Our Kickstarter campaign for a companion video series to our book High Performance Django ended today just shy of its target. We consider it a great success! That’s right… a success. When we started the campaign, our internal goal was …

Featured Django 1.9 alpha 1 released The next version of Django hit feature-freeze with lots of cool new features: password validators, parallel testing, a true Postgres JSON field, and more. New options for donating to the DSF To keep up …

Featured Django team seeks help maintaining Oracle and Oracle GIS backends Are you using Oracle with Django? The database backend is currently without a maintainer and runs the risk of being deprecated unless somebody steps up to provide support. Security …

Featured Security releases issued: 1.8.3, 1.7.9, 1.4.21 A possible denial of service attack related to Django’s session framework was patched. If you’re using a third-party session framework, be sure it’s been updated as well. Django Has a New Admin Theme …