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Django Round-Up #12

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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 …
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Introducing Salmon

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Over the years, I’ve used a lot of server monitoring systems. Big enterprisey ones like Zabbix, Zenoss, and Hyperic, smaller ones like munin and monit, stuff in the middle like Graphite, and hosted solutions like New Relic. Throughout the search, …
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Goodbye Trailmapping

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Trailmapping.com was a fun experiment with rapid development in Django I released almost 5 years ago now(!). I spoke about it at the first DjangoCon (also my first “real” talk in front of an audience). I didn’t give it much …
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Django Round-Up #11

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Good day Djangonauts! Enjoy today's tasty slice of Django Round-up (#11)... Featured Django 1.6 alpha 1 Released It feels like 1.5 was just released, but 1.6 is already nearing completion. Major features include better (more secure) default settings and persistent …
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Django Round-Up #10

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Greetings from Greece (γεια σας!) where Lincoln Loop is setting up camp for the week . Without further delay, here's Django Round-up #10. Featured Getting Started with Django, Lesson 4 The latest in the Getting Started with Django series. In …
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Lincoln Loop Retreat 2013

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Over the last couple months we’ve been busy tying up loose ends and preparing for our first “official” company-wide retreat. Even though we’re a fully distributed team, we’re big believers in the power of meet-ups and face-time. They form bonds, …
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Django Round-Up #9

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Happy May and welcome to Django Round-up #9! I have a special request for you, so please check the bottom of the email before clicking the "archive" button. Featured Django Software Foundation call for board nominations Alex Gaynor is stepping …
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Django Round-Up #8

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Hidee-ho Django Round-Up readers! We're back with issue #8: Featured A whole load of Kickstarting The post-mortem for Andrew Godwin's Kickstarter project to add schema migrations to Django core. He raised nearly £18k, via over 500 donations and plans to …
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Django Round-Up #7

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Top o' the morning (or evening) Django Round-Up readers! Here's issue #7, hot off the presses: Featured Django 1.5.1 Released A minor release fixing a memory leak in 1.5 and some smaller non-critical bugs. Schema Migrations for Django Kickstarter Andrew …
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Playing with Pickle Security

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Reading about the latest vulnerabilities in Rails, got me thinking about a similar issue we have in Python. It is well known that using pickle on untrusted data is insecure to the point of allowing arbitrary code execution. Or at …