Do you manage a website? Does it have a login form? Can somebody brute force attack it with every common username/password combination until they find one that works?
For many small web applications, the answer to all of the above …
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Django Bugfix Releases
An incremental bugfix release was done for Djangos 1.4.x-1.7.x. The older ones are pretty minor, but there's a
laundry list of fixes in 1.7.1
that are worth checking out.
Inagural Django Fellows Announced
For the first …
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Django 1.7 Released
This is big news. Django 1.7 is a huge release, including database migrations and an app loading refactor (no more empty
models.py
files!). Lots of other goodies in
the release notes
.
DSF calls for applicants …
Last month, I presented
High Performance Django: From Runserver to Reddit Hugs
at DjangoCon US in Portland. My assertion was that Django, left to its own devices, does not scale. With the right supporting servers, however, it can scale fantastically. …
I’m excited to announce that our book, High Performance Django is officially complete. You can buy a copy at
highperformancedjango.com
now.
Thank You
Writing the book was hard work and there were definitely times where the challenge felt insurmountable. I …
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Django Security Releases
New security releases in the 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7 branches were made. They address multiple vulnerabilities. Make sure to review the notes to see if you are affected.
A thank you to the companies that …
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. These graphics can consist of paths, shapes, and/or text that can be scaled and resized without losing image quality like a bitmap would.
While SVG has actually …
We’ve been working on a new UI and front-end architecture for our communication tool,
Ginger
. In doing so, we built a new
JavaScript library
to communicate with our
django-rest-framework
powered API(s).
Inspired by
hood.ie
but aimed at custom API …
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Django 1.7 release candidate 2
The 1.7 release is nigh! Lots of awesome improvements coming down the pike.
DjangoCon US Schedule Posted
The preliminary talk schedule for DjangoCon US was posted recently. It will be back in Portland this …
In the past month we worked to scale up
botbot.me
. Every few days the bot would get stuck in a deadlock situation that caused outage of the logging service. I had some time in front of me that I …