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Making the Distributed Workplace Work

In our last installment, I introduced our distributed workplace and why we prefer it over a traditional office. Over the years, we’ve learned a lot about how to make a distributed workplace, well… work. The single most important we learned …
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Django Round-up #1

Hi there, welcome to the first of what we hope are more Django round-ups. We scoured the internet for great Django resources, then bundled them up for you here. We hope it helps you stay current and not miss anything …
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Introducing Learn with Lincoln Loop

Today we’re excited to announce the launch of our premium screencast collection, Learn with Lincoln Loop. Over the years we’ve worked with a wide variety of technologies and techniques. With Learn, we’re making that accumulated knowledge available through high-quality, DRM-free …
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Test Coverage in Go

An important part of the process process of learning a new language is to learn the ecosystem that helps you to write better code. In a previous article I covered gdb integration with Go. Next on my list is to …
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Introducing BotBot

Today we’re introducing a new member of the Lincoln Loop family, BotBot.me. At the moment, BotBot is beautiful hosted IRC logs (try #django or #go-nuts). We built it for people who love IRC and we want your advice to improve …
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/dev/loop2

Episode #2 of the /dev/loop podcast is live! Today I was joined by Pete, Graham, and Brian, and we discussed disk encryption and password sharing, client-side or server-side template rendering for Javascript, Django Rest Framework, and Graphite. You can watch …
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/dev/loop1

This week’s episode of the /dev/loop podcast features Pete, Yann, Michael and Brandon discussing the Go programming language, the flexibility of SVG graphics on the web, and the ups and downs of the Bootstrap toolkit. You can watch the video …
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/dev/loop0

Today, several members of the Lincoln Loop team recorded our first podcast, which we’re calling “/dev/loop”. Pete, Yann, Marco, Brian, and Brandon gathered together to discuss configuration management and Salt, Selenium testing in Django 1.4, and &yet;’s excellent Realtime Conference …
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Introduction to Django Selenium Testing

If you’ve never heard of Selenium, put simply, it’s a tool that allows you to create tests that are run in the browser and interact with your UI in the same way as if you were manually testing your website …
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Realtime Replay Logs with Redis

First off, realtime websites are hard. The current toolset is rudimentary. When I first started building Ginger, I thought I must be doing it wrong because of all the trial-and-error and pieces I was building from scratch. After watching Geoff …