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Django Round-Up #32

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Featured Security Advisory: Arbitrary file inclusion through docutils If you are allowing untrusted users to input reStructuredText which later gets passed through docutils , be sure to read this advisory to ensure your application is configured securely. DjangoCon EU Talk …
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Concurrency in Python vs GO

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At Pycon in Montreal few weeks ago I attended a talk that blew my mind away and got me thinking: Python concurrency from the Ground Up: LIVE! by David Beazley. The video is available on YouTube. The gist of the …
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A Closer Look at Docker

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Part of my job at Lincoln Loop is to explore new technologies and make sure that, as a company, we stay current. I've been playing around with Docker for a while, but recently decided to redeploy some of our production …
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Django Round-Up #31

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Featured DjangoCon US in Austin, TX The website for this year's DjangoCon US officially launched (designed by us at Lincoln Loop ). This year's conference is being run by a newly founded non-profit, more details on the blog . Security …
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High Performance Django Infrastructure Preview

By Peter Baumgartner on

One of the most common requests we've heard since releasing our book, High Performance Django is: "Do you have more code/configuration examples?" It's a pretty loaded question because the book covers everything from Python code to deploying and configuring servers. …
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Django Round-Up #30

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Featured Django 1.8 beta 1 and 1.7.5 Released Django 1.8 is one step closer to release and 1.7 has received a few bug fixes. DjangoCon Europe 2015 Update DjangoCon EU is just over a month away and tickets are going …
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SVG Sprites and Icon Systems Are Super

By Joni Trythall on

I received an email recently asking for assistance with an SVG icon issue. The individual explained that he was working with a lot of icons (about 300, which I would say qualifies as a "system") as images and wondering if …
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Django Round-Up #29

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Featured Django 1.8 alpha 1 released The next version of Django hit alpha stage and should be hitting beta this week. This is another big release, including two crowdfunded initiatives, Marc Tamlyn's Postgres contrib module and Aymeric Augustin's multiple template …
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Introducing Flexbox Fridays

By Joni Trythall on

Flexbox is everywhere right now. Well, talk of flexbox is everywhere, not so much its implementation just yet. We have been tinkering with it quite a bit these days and thought it might be handy to share these explorations. Each …