All articles tagged development

Building a cluster in the cloud is becoming a mundane step that you have to do several times during the life cycle of a project. There are multiple driving forces behind this fact: Initial set up Redundancy Setting up an …

Let's Encrypt is a new certificate authority. It is a huge improvement over the manual complex process of acquiring and deploying an HTTPS server. The process is now: Free Automatic (no more login to sites, filling forms, concatenating certificates) This …

Images are everywhere on the web. Whether you're building a simple blog, a CMS, or a true web application, chances are good that you'll need to deal with images. Editors, authors, users, etc. expect to be able to upload images …

With the version 1.0 release of react-router, the named Route feature was dropped. In earlier versions, you were able to define each Route with a name parameter: <Route path="/account/billing" name="account-billing" /> and link to the RouteHandler via: <Link to="account-billing">Billing</Link> This …

The following is the second installment of our Loop Letters series, an interview with Tracy Osborn. Tracy is the author of Hello Web App, a book to help designers and non-programmers get up and running with Python and Django. Tracy …

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 …

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 …

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, …