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A Plan Comes Together
Andrew Godwin merged his migrations branch into Django master. This means, barring some horrible problem, we'll be seeing it in the 1.7 release of Django. Congratulations to Andrew on his monumental effort and getting this …
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Django Security Releases Issued
1.5.2, 1.4.6, and 1.6 beta 2 were released to address two cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs found in Django. The release notes state that, "While these issues present limited risk and may not affect all Django …
With things like LESS and RequireJS, we’re starting to use Node.js’s npm (think pip for JavaScript) on every other project. However, installing Node.js globally means some dependencies are also installed globally, which might be a problem if different projects use …
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Django 1.6 Beta 1 Released
That was quick! Just four months after the release of 1.5, 1.6 is getting ready to spread it's wings. Big new features include persistent database connections (likely a nice speed improvement for many sites), …
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 …
On the surface tmux manages your terminal windows, but really it helps you stay focused. The challenge with learning tmux is that the benefits are not immediately apparent. At first it’s just screen with vertical splits. In this post I …
At Lincoln Loop, we have been building large web applications using Django since 2007. Recently, however, we have recently started using Go as a critical network component of Botbot.me.
Reading others’ successes stories about replacing some existing components of their …
Happy Friday, here's Django Round-up, lucky number 13, hot off the presses.
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Tunnel Lights
Andrew Godwin's latest in his Django migrations epic. After years of planning, he finally has functional code working with the Django core. He describes some …
Upstart is a ridiculously easy way to turn your scripts into daemons. Take this python script:
/home/myuser/ez_daemon.py:
exec python /home/myuser/ez_daemon.py
And that’s it!
<ul>
<li>sudo start ez_daemon</li>
<li>sudo tail -f /var/log/upstart/ez_daemon.log</li>
<li>sudo stop ez_daemon</li>
</ul>
You can do this for …
Bienvenidos a Django Round-up #12!
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Jeremy Dunck joins the DSF Board
Jeremy Dunck, former Django Software Foundation secretary, was voted into the board seat vacated by Alex Gaynor (who left to become director of the
Python
Software Foundation). Andy …
