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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 ...
Better UI prototyping with a Django twist
As part of our new appreciation for start-up organizations and their love of Django, we thought we’d share how we approach the concept of rapid UI prototyping.
Early stage start-up ...
Rackspace Temporary URLs with django-cumulus
We love Rackspace at Imaginary Landscape. Recently, we needed to store a number of large files securely, and for logistical reasons, we chose to store them via Rackspace’s Cloud ...
Testing and Django
At the last Chicago Djangonauts meeting, which we host in our office, I gave my first Python/Django talk. I spoke regarding unit-testing your code in general, but, also how ...