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Django Round-Up #15

Featured Django Security Releases Issued 1.5.2, 1.4.6, and 1.6 beta 2 were released to address two cross-site scripting (XSS) bugs found in Django. The release notes state that, "While these issues present limited risk and may not affect all Django …
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Django Round-Up #14

Featured Django 1.6 Beta 1 Released That was quick! Just four months after the release of 1.5, 1.6 is getting ready to spread it's wings. Big new features include persistent database connections (likely a nice speed improvement for many sites), …
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Django Round-Up

For a while now we’ve sent out a regular newsletter called the Django Round-Up, a collection of recent links, packages, and jobs in the Django community, curated by Pete Baumgartner. It’s a great resource for keeping up with the Django …
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tmux: Stay focused

On the surface tmux manages your terminal windows, but really it helps you stay focused. The challenge with learning tmux is that the benefits are not immediately apparent. At first it’s just screen with vertical splits. In this post I …
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Django Round-Up #13

Happy Friday, here's Django Round-up, lucky number 13, hot off the presses. Featured Tunnel Lights Andrew Godwin's latest in his Django migrations epic. After years of planning, he finally has functional code working with the Django core. He describes some …
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/dev/loop5

Episode #5 of the /dev/loop podcast is live! Pete, Michael, Marco, and Yann talk about our emerging Salmon monitoring project, the growing world of JavaScript tools, and the challenge of web apps on mobile. You can watch the video above, …
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The Joy of Upstart

Upstart is a ridiculously easy way to turn your scripts into daemons. Take this python script: /home/myuser/ez_daemon.py: exec python /home/myuser/ez_daemon.py And that&#8217;s it! <ul> <li>sudo start ez_daemon</li> <li>sudo tail -f /var/log/upstart/ez_daemon.log</li> <li>sudo stop ez_daemon</li> </ul> You can do this for …
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Django Round-Up #12

Bienvenidos a Django Round-up #12! Featured Jeremy Dunck joins the DSF Board Jeremy Dunck, former Django Software Foundation secretary, was voted into the board seat vacated by Alex Gaynor (who left to become director of the Python Software Foundation). Andy …