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Getting Started Contributing to Django
Recently I had the opportunity to attend the DjangoCon Sprint here in Chicago (see related post). One of my big take-aways from the event was that contributing to Django ...
My First Django Sprint
This year I attended my first DjangoCon and, needless to say, it was pretty amazing. I also attended my first Django Sprint after DjangoCon was over. It was a fantastic ...
Debug Toolbar Primer
The Django Debug Toolbar is a powerful and useful tool for identifying potential trouble spots in your Django application. Hopefully, this post will serve as a starting point for understanding ...
Twelve-Factor Renaissance
It has been a week since our production team returned from the 2013 DjangoCon US. Though technically we didn't return since it was in Chicago where we are located! Nevertheless ...
DjangoCon Performance Optimization Slides
Below is a PDF of the slides for today's DjangoCon US presentation, "Trial By Fire: Real World Performance Optimization" by Joe Jasinski and Dan Johnson (Tuesday, September 3, 2013 - Track ...
The Onion films at the Imaginary office
This week, The Onion arrived at the Imaginary Landscape office to film a short segment for their website, "CEO Has Special Knack For Recognizing Great Ideas and Ruining Them." ...
Simple Job Queues with django_rq
The de facto solution for job queues with background workers is Celery and RabbitMQ, but it is not the right fit for every project. RQ is an alternative to Celery ...
Remember your robots.txt
As part of our website creation process, we utilize one or more servers for development. This keeps the live site live while we do our work but gives us a ...
Upgrades: Django Old to Django New
Sometimes we are faced with the challenge of upgrading old Django-based projects. The task can be daunting, as a lot has happened in Django within the last few years. Since ...
Django Internationalization
A few weeks ago I gave a talk at the Chicago Djangonauts meeting on Django Internationalization. Apparently this isn't a task that a lot of people need to do frequently ...