All articles tagged Django

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 …

I just finished reading the copy of Django 1.1 Testing and Debugging by Karen M. Tracey provided to us for review by Packt Publishing. For those of you who don’t know, Karen is a core developer of Django and her …

I’m pleased to announce that Gondola for Real Estate, our GeoDjango-backed real estate CMS is publicly accepting new customers. A couple weeks ago, we quietly re-launched gondolacms.com with some details about the platform and what it has to offer, as …

Today, we are launching a new offering at Lincoln Loop, development services paid by the sprint. Previously, our typical engagements involved a (sometimes lengthy) discovery, estimation, and bidding process. Lately, however, people have been asking us to jump in with …

Homebrew seems to be the hot new package manager for OS X, so while setting up a new system last night, I figured I’d see how it handled installing all the external libraries required for GeoDjango. The answer I quickly …

Packt Publishing was nice enough to send us a copy of Django 1.0 Template Development by Scott Newman for review recently. I get most of my technical information via the web, so picking up a technical book was a nice …

In part 1, we showed how we use Fabric to update and deploy Django sites to our development server with a single command. This works great when you only have one developer pushing changes to the server, but what happens …

We’re firm believers in the practices described by the Continuous Integration method of software engineering. Among those are: Maintain a code repository Automate the build Automate deployment We use git for our code repositories and Fabric to automate our build/deployment …