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A Look At SVG

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 …
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Introducing Amygdala, a JavaScript REST client

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 back-ends, …
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Django Round-Up #23

Featured 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 …
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Django Round-Up #22

Featured Django 1.7 release candidate 1 Django 1.7 is creeping towards an official release. Lots of changes in this one including an app loading refactor and built-in schema migrations. DjangoCon US Call for Proposals The talk proposal deadline for DjangoCon …
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Django Round-Up #21

Featured Django Security Releases Django 1.4.13, 1.5.8, 1.6.5 and 1.7 beta 4 were released to address an issue with caches serving private data and URL validation allowing redirects to malformed URLs. These issues likely affect a majority of users and …
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Django Round-Up #20

Hi there! As you probably noticed, Django Round-up has been on hiatus for the last few months. We got busy and the newsletter fell by the wayside. Sorry for leaving you hanging! Moving forward, we're considering a monthly format instead …