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Featured Django Security Releases New security releases in the 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, and 1.7 branches were made. They address multiple vulnerabilities. Make sure to review the notes to see if you are affected. A thank you to the companies that …

Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is a language for describing two-dimensional graphics in XML. These graphics can consist of paths, shapes, and/or text that can be scaled and resized without losing image quality like a bitmap would. While SVG has actually …

We’ve been working on a new UI and front-end architecture for our communication tool, Ginger. In doing so, we built a new JavaScript library to communicate with our django-rest-framework powered API(s). Inspired by hood.ie but aimed at custom API back-ends, …

Featured Django 1.7 release candidate 2 The 1.7 release is nigh! Lots of awesome improvements coming down the pike. DjangoCon US Schedule Posted The preliminary talk schedule for DjangoCon US was posted recently. It will be back in Portland this …

In the past month we worked to scale up botbot.me. Every few days the bot would get stuck in a deadlock situation that caused outage of the logging service. I had some time in front of me that I decided …

Featured Django 1.7 release candidate 1 Django 1.7 is creeping towards an official release. Lots of changes in this one including an app loading refactor and built-in schema migrations. DjangoCon US Call for Proposals The talk proposal deadline for DjangoCon …

Featured Django Security Releases Django 1.4.13, 1.5.8, 1.6.5 and 1.7 beta 4 were released to address an issue with caches serving private data and URL validation allowing redirects to malformed URLs. These issues likely affect a majority of users and …

I'm really excited to (finally) announce that we are writing a book! We've been working with Django professionally for a long time (over 7 years now). During that time, we've learned a lot about how to use the framework to …

Hi there! As you probably noticed, Django Round-up has been on hiatus for the last few months. We got busy and the newsletter fell by the wayside. Sorry for leaving you hanging! Moving forward, we're considering a monthly format instead …

CSS preprocessors have given us a handful of tools to re-architect our front-end code. We can keep things DRY with includes and extends or perhaps use nesting for code organization. All of these features allow a CSS rule to grow …