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Introducing Salmon

Over the years, I’ve used a lot of server monitoring systems. Big enterprisey ones like Zabbix, Zenoss, and Hyperic, smaller ones like munin and monit, stuff in the middle like Graphite, and hosted solutions like New Relic. Throughout the search, …
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Django Round-Up #11

Good day Djangonauts! Enjoy today's tasty slice of Django Round-up (#11)... Featured Django 1.6 alpha 1 Released It feels like 1.5 was just released, but 1.6 is already nearing completion. Major features include better (more secure) default settings and persistent …
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Django Round-Up #10

Greetings from Greece (γεια σας!) where Lincoln Loop is setting up camp for the week . Without further delay, here's Django Round-up #10. Featured Getting Started with Django, Lesson 4 The latest in the Getting Started with Django series. In …
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Django Round-Up #9

Happy May and welcome to Django Round-up #9! I have a special request for you, so please check the bottom of the email before clicking the "archive" button. Featured Django Software Foundation call for board nominations Alex Gaynor is stepping …
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Django Round-Up #8

Hidee-ho Django Round-Up readers! We're back with issue #8: Featured A whole load of Kickstarting The post-mortem for Andrew Godwin's Kickstarter project to add schema migrations to Django core. He raised nearly £18k, via over 500 donations and plans to …
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Django Round-Up #7

Top o' the morning (or evening) Django Round-Up readers! Here's issue #7, hot off the presses: Featured Django 1.5.1 Released A minor release fixing a memory leak in 1.5 and some smaller non-critical bugs. Schema Migrations for Django Kickstarter Andrew …
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Playing with Pickle Security

Reading about the latest vulnerabilities in Rails, got me thinking about a similar issue we have in Python. It is well known that using pickle on untrusted data is insecure to the point of allowing arbitrary code execution. Or at …
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Django Round-Up #6

¡Buenos dias Django Round-Up readers! Here's issue #6 with lots of PyCon goodness: Featured Goodbye, Malcolm Today's round-up starts on a horribly somber note. The Django community lost one of its leaders last week when Malcolm Tredinnick passed away. He …
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Django Round-Up #5

Hello and happy Friday Django Round-up readers! Without delay, here's issue #5: Featured Django 1.5 Released Django 1.5 brings in some great new features including the long awaited, configurable user model! "Experimental" Python 3 support landed and the docs have …
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Django Settings Parity: You're Doing It Wrong

A common paradigm in Django is to create different settings files for different environments (local, production, staging, etc.). Everyone has their own opinion on how to set these up (see ours here), that’s not what this post is about. Instead, …