All articles tagged Development

We love the Django community and to show our thanks, we’re throwing a private party Wednesday night for DjangoCon attendees. After dinner (9-11pm), come on down to Ground Kontrol, Portland’s favorite classic arcade. We’ll have an open bar (while supplies …

Coverage.py makes it easy to see how much of your code is covered by your test suite. It can be configured to spit out reports in XML (for consumption by a continuous integration server like Jenkins), in HTML (for human …

It is often handy to disable (either temporarily or permanently) South migrations for an app. “Disable” in this context means preventing an app’s migrations from being executed so that the app is managed via syncdb while in this state. A …

Why? A common question from South users is how to reset the migrations back to an initial state. The reasons for doing this are often related to the number of migrations growing steadily over the life of the project. You’ve …

A few weeks ago Django’s team revealed a data leakage bug in the admin application that affects an extremely interesting and undocumented feature. A user that has access to a change_list page of an object in the admin interface can …

Fellow Lincoln Looper, Martin Mahner, posted an excellent write up on how to use proxy models to separate staff and user accounts in Django’s admin. We frequently have a need for this in client projects, but people don’t often consider …

Recently we noticed some intermittent slow downs with our Gondola sites and wanted to track down the source of the issue. Our sites are all Django projects served by Apache/mod_wsgi behind an Nginx frontend proxy. Nginx’s upstream module makes the …

We’re looking for a Django developer to join our team. With the impending departure of Armin Ronacher to finish his degree, we’re going to be at least one developer short this Fall. We’re looking for somebody who can jump right …

We love pip and Fabric for Django deployment. You can see our boilerplate fabfile.py here. Pip, however, isn’t safe to run in an automated fashion. If you attempt to switch branches or repos for one of your editable requirements, you’ll …

I really like supervisord for long-running process management. It is Python, so it is easy to install and it is easy to script with tools like Fabric. Lately I’ve been deploying smaller Django/WSGI sites with Green Unicorn behind Nginx proxied …