This is HTTP
A big friendly unsecured clear-text, line-oriented bear.
This is SPDY
A multi-plexed binary TLS-wrapped protocol from the future.
SPDY (pronounced speedy) is a replacement for HTTP, and feels like a wrapper for it. SPDY is a packet …
One of my recent tasks in Ginger was to ensure that we weren’t leaking referrer URLs when you click on an external link in Ginger. It seemed like an easy task and one that’s probably been solved before. What I …
Our new product Ginger relies heavily on Backbone.js for most of the client-side functionality (you can read about our full web-stack here). Our JavaScript guru Marco built the initial prototype and then was pulled away by client work. I reluctantly …
[with apologies to Mr. Orwell]
I’ve noticed a subtle shift in how we approach building up new sites over the last couple of years. Our approach to site construction used to favor collecting open source apps and gluing them together …
Our team functions in different capacities for each business engagement, but we typically have a project or few where we’re exclusively building a large site for a client. In those scenarios we tend to use a loosely defined two-week development …
We’ve made it a general rule to move away from relying on fixtures in our projects. The main reasons are:
Fixtures are fragile. They often break when the schema changes or even worse they appear to work but introduce subtle …
For our latest product, Ginger, we wanted to marry the real-time functionality we needed with the traditional Django stack we know and love. After some false starts and falling on our faces in the beginning, we ended with a stack …
The recommended way to add decorators such as login_required to class based views in Django is a bit verbose. Here’s a little metaclass-producing function you may find handy:
def DecoratedDispatchMethod(actual_decorator): """ If you want to decorate the Class-based View with, …
Without patching, the rsync utility lacks support to detect when a file was renamed/moved across multiple directories inside the synced tree. There is a ––fuzzy option to save bandwidth by building upon similar files on the target side, but only …
When you develop a sizable content heavy web site you quickly learn, hopefully not the hard way, that caching is a very important piece of your infrastructure. The database servers are the typical bottleneck in high volume website.
Common wisdom …
