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Django 1.7 release candidate 1
Django 1.7 is creeping towards an official release. Lots of changes in this one including an app loading refactor and built-in schema migrations.
DjangoCon US Call for Proposals
The talk proposal deadline for DjangoCon …
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Django Security Releases
Django 1.4.13, 1.5.8, 1.6.5 and 1.7 beta 4 were released to address an issue with caches serving private data and URL validation allowing redirects to malformed URLs. These issues likely affect a majority of users and …
I'm really excited to (finally) announce that we are writing a book! We've been working with Django professionally for a long time (over 7 years now). During that time, we've learned
a lot
about how to use the framework to …
Hi there! As you probably noticed, Django Round-up has been on hiatus for the last few months. We got busy and the newsletter fell by the wayside. Sorry for leaving you hanging!
Moving forward, we're considering a monthly format instead …
CSS preprocessors have given us a handful of tools to re-architect our front-end code. We can keep things DRY with includes and extends or perhaps use nesting for code organization. All of these features allow a CSS rule to grow …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Varnish
Saint Mode
is a lesser known gem inside
varnish
that lets you serve stale content from cache, even when your backend servers are unavailable.
This article explains how to configure varnish to take advantage of this feature. If you …
Building realtime applications is a big change from how we’ve built websites in the past. Typically, realtime websites require each client holding open a long-running connection to the server so updates can be pushed down to the client immediately. This …