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Featured A Plan Comes Together Andrew Godwin merged his migrations branch into Django master. This means, barring some horrible problem, we'll be seeing it in the 1.7 release of Django. Congratulations to Andrew on his monumental effort and getting this …

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 …

With things like LESS and RequireJS, we're starting to use Node.js's npm (think pip for JavaScript) on every other project. However, installing Node.js globally means some dependencies are also installed globally, which might be a problem if different projects use …

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), …

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 …

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 …

At Lincoln Loop, we have been building large web applications using Django since 2007. Recently, however, we have recently started using Go as a critical network component of Botbot.me. Reading others' successes stories about replacing some existing components of their …

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 …

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, …

Upstart is a ridiculously easy way to turn your scripts into daemons. Take this python script: /home/myuser/ez_daemon.py: import time while 1: print("I'm a daemon!") time.sleep(1) We’re going to turn it into a daemon with <strong>a single line</strong>: /etc/init/ez_daemon.conf: exec python …