When your organization is planning a digital transformation, your website is the headlining act. Rethinking the technology and strategies that best support your message going forward requires time, effort, and a significant investment. If you don’t manage the effort to …
I don’t like Django’s manage.py. My gripes against it are:
The plethora of files that clutter the root directory of our repos annoys me. manage.py is just one more in a long line of those.
In my opinion, there are …
Here at Lincoln Loop, for the past 15 years, we have built countless Digital experiences (DXP) that help to move our customers’ digital transformation forward.
The ultimate result of what is often a long-term engagement is often a code base …
Launching a website can be an exciting but nerve-wracking experience. With so many moving parts in the website development process, it’s easy to overlook small details that can significantly impact the user experience. To help you avoid potential issues, we’ve …
Back in 2018, I wrote about using setup.py in your Django/Python project. Five years later, setup.py is being phased out in favor of pyproject.toml. I’m a big fan of this change. With setup.py you could really go off the rails …
We spend a lot of energy at Lincoln Loop to ensure that the tools we build for our clients are working as hard as possible for them. One thing that we consider is a thoughtfully-designed Open Graph meta tag system. …
tl;dr I built a benchmark for Python Package managers, you can view it at https://lincolnloop.github.io/python-package-manager-shootout/
When starting a new Python project, you have a few different options for how you want to manage your dependencies. Like Node.js has npm, yarn, …
One of the first things you need to do when starting a new Django project is to choose which version of Django you are going to use. At any given time, there could be as many as three supported Django …
In 2014 Yann Malet and I (with the help of the rest of the team here) wrote a book about building and scaling Django websites. It was the culmination of things we’d learned from, at the time, close to a …
Our clients come to us with a variety of existing internal teams. Sometimes we work with UI designers or brand-focused graphic designers who deliver pixel-perfect mockups. Other times the stakeholders will describe what their goals are, and we’ll be responsible …
