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Featured PyCon 2015 Talk Schedule PyCon will be returning to Montréal this April and the talk schedule was just announced. At least one Django talk is on the docket, but there's always a lot to offer here for Django devs. …

Front-end tools like Grunt and Gulp are becoming very widespread, and there’s good reason for it. The front-end code is no longer static, CSS pre-processors are the norm, and JavaScript modules such as Require, Browserify or even coffeescript are also …

Last week Vitaly and I migrated BotBot.me to new servers and also launched a redesign of the user account section. You can now support us by becoming a subscriber for $3/month and even log personal channels for $2/month. If you …

Featured Django Websites Redesign Ok, so this didn't happen in November, but it's too big not to include. For the first time since it's public launch nearly 10 years ago, www.djangoproject.com got a redesign. Congrats to everyone involved. DjangoCon Europe …

If you have ever built a form using Bootstrap you have undoubtedly worked with input groups. Input groups are an excellent way to provide contextual help via iconography or associate specific actions with the appropriate field. However, they can be …

Do you manage a website? Does it have a login form? Can somebody brute force attack it with every common username/password combination until they find one that works? For many small web applications, the answer to all of the above …

Featured Django Bugfix Releases An incremental bugfix release was done for Djangos 1.4.x-1.7.x. The older ones are pretty minor, but there's a laundry list of fixes in 1.7.1 that are worth checking out. Inagural Django Fellows Announced For the first …

Featured Django 1.7 Released This is big news. Django 1.7 is a huge release, including database migrations and an app loading refactor (no more empty models.py files!). Lots of other goodies in the release notes . DSF calls for applicants …

Last month, I presented High Performance Django: From Runserver to Reddit Hugs at DjangoCon US in Portland. My assertion was that Django, left to its own devices, does not scale. With the right supporting servers, however, it can scale fantastically. …

I'm excited to announce that our book, High Performance Django is officially complete. You can buy a copy at highperformancedjango.com now. Thank You Writing the book was hard work and there were definitely times where the challenge felt insurmountable. I …