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As Lincoln Loop has evolved and grown over the last year, we’ve learned a lot not only about software development, but also about all the things that accompany it like budgeting, estimating, and scheduling. Probably the most important one is …

Packt Publishing was nice enough to send us a copy of Django 1.0 Template Development by Scott Newman for review recently. I get most of my technical information via the web, so picking up a technical book was a nice …

In part 1, we showed how we use Fabric to update and deploy Django sites to our development server with a single command. This works great when you only have one developer pushing changes to the server, but what happens …

We’re firm believers in the practices described by the Continuous Integration method of software engineering. Among those are: Maintain a code repository Automate the build Automate deployment We use git for our code repositories and Fabric to automate our build/deployment …

Inspired by Eric Florenzano’s talk, Using Django in Non-Standard Ways (slides in PDF) at DjangoCon and the announcement of Tornado (tornadoweb.org), I decided to try building a small application using the Django Form library and Django ORM inside Tornado. The …

Last month, Lincoln Loop gave a talk at EuroDjangoCon about customizing the Django admin interface. After presenting some of the admin customizations we had done on Gondola, I had a bunch of people get in touch with me asking me …

I’ve always disliked the way named anchors (<a href="#name">...</a>) behave in browsers. It jumps your viewport to a different part of the page, but it’s rarely obvious which section you have landed on. If the page is long enough, the …

This post got a bit long-winded, skip to the project announcment if you prefer. One of the things I love about Python and Django is the philosophy that there is one obvious way to do things. Standards make it easy …

While browsing the source code of President Obama’s latest web initiative, recovery.org, I noticed something of interest. <script type="text/javascript"> <!--//--><![CDATA[//><!-- jQuery.extend(Drupal.settings, { "basePath": "/" }); //--><!]]> </script> Wow, this can’t be true. Can it? $ curl -I http://www.recovery.gov HTTP/1.1 200 …

Satchmo is an amazing E-Commerce engine built on top of Django. After struggling in the past with difficult packages like ZenCart and OSCommerce, Satchmo’s ease of customization make it a joy to work with. Unfortunately, all the features can make …