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Let’s Encrypt is a new certificate authority. It is a huge improvement over the manual complex process of acquiring and deploying an HTTPS server. The process is now: Free Automatic (no more login to sites, filling forms, concatenating certificates) This …

Images are everywhere on the web. Whether you’re building a simple blog, a CMS, or a true web application, chances are good that you’ll need to deal with images. Editors, authors, users, etc. expect to be able to upload images …

Featured Django 1.9 release candidate 1 released Last month, saw the release of 1.9 RC1 (now official). It’s the first official non-LTS release since the new release process was formalized . Bugfix release issued: 1.8.6 1.8.6 fixes a handful of …

This post was created as a collaboration between Lincoln Loop and Maciej Fijalkowski from baroquesoftware.com. In the space of web architecture, the prevalent belief states that “database based applications are I/O bound”. While this might have been true in the …

Featured Bugfix release issued: 1.8.5 A handlful of bugs in the 1.8 release series have been resolved in the latest release. Django 1.9 beta 1 released 1.9 brings a lot of new features including password validators, parallel tests, a Postgres …

Our Kickstarter campaign for a companion video series to our book High Performance Django ended today just shy of its target. We consider it a great success! That’s right… a success. When we started the campaign, our internal goal was …

Featured Django 1.9 alpha 1 released The next version of Django hit feature-freeze with lots of cool new features: password validators, parallel testing, a true Postgres JSON field, and more. New options for donating to the DSF To keep up …

Element queries provide styling opportunities specific to an element’s dimensions. You could consider them the holy grail of responsive web design, allowing authors to determine an element’s look and feel regardless on where it’s placed. If given ample space you …

Featured Django team seeks help maintaining Oracle and Oracle GIS backends Are you using Oracle with Django? The database backend is currently without a maintainer and runs the risk of being deprecated unless somebody steps up to provide support. Security …

Last month I had some time to take a closer look at how our website was performing from a pure speed perspective. It’s a pretty simple site, a bit less than 400kb total and very different from that of most …