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Part of my job at Lincoln Loop is to explore new technologies and make sure that, as a company, we stay current. I’ve been playing around with Docker for a while, but recently decided to redeploy some of our production …

Featured DjangoCon US in Austin, TX The website for this year's DjangoCon US officially launched (designed by us at Lincoln Loop ). This year's conference is being run by a newly founded non-profit, more details on the blog . Security …

One of the most common requests we’ve heard since releasing our book, High Performance Django is: “Do you have more code/configuration examples?” It’s a pretty loaded question because the book covers everything from Python code to deploying and configuring servers. …

Featured Django 1.8 beta 1 and 1.7.5 Released Django 1.8 is one step closer to release and 1.7 has received a few bug fixes. DjangoCon Europe 2015 Update DjangoCon EU is just over a month away and tickets are going …

I received an email recently asking for assistance with an SVG icon issue. The individual explained that he was working with a lot of icons (about 300, which I would say qualifies as a “system”) as images and wondering if …

Featured Django 1.8 alpha 1 released The next version of Django hit alpha stage and should be hitting beta this week. This is another big release, including two crowdfunded initiatives, Marc Tamlyn's Postgres contrib module and Aymeric Augustin's multiple template …

Flexbox is everywhere right now. Well, talk of flexbox is everywhere, not so much its implementation just yet. We have been tinkering with it quite a bit these days and thought it might be handy to share these explorations. Each …

With the launch of our book, High Performance Django, we’ve received a number of inquiries from people asking for advice, for which the answers are too specific to their application to give good general advice, and too short to sign …

Featured PyCon 2015 Talk Schedule PyCon will be returning to Montréal this April and the talk schedule was just announced. At least one Django talk is on the docket, but there's always a lot to offer here for Django devs. …

Front-end tools like Grunt and Gulp are becoming very widespread, and there’s good reason for it. The front-end code is no longer static, CSS pre-processors are the norm, and JavaScript modules such as Require, Browserify or even coffeescript are also …