In Part 1 of this article, we discussed our choice of typical server stack and the general packages that we find useful upon an initial installation. Part 2 will focus on setting up the site environment and configuring the system services. As mentioned before, at Imaginary, this setup process is normally automated...
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New Django Server Setup: Part 1
A core challenge of setting up a Django project is creating a production-worthy server environment and project setup. At Imaginary Landscape, we've put a lot of thought into how to accomplish this task in an intuitive and flexible way. The goal of this article is to detail the default setup...
Magic Links
The first time I used the new link attachment tool found on sites like Facebook, I thought I had experienced something magical. After pasting an external webpage URL into my wall-post form, an image, page title, and page description of the linked webpage appeared beneath my post as though out...
Django and Continuous Integration
There are a wide variety of reasons why we should worry about testing in our Django applications, obviously. However, as a former system administrator, I have some ideals that are absolutely engraved straight into my brain I think. The main idiom being: "Never do the same thing three times. Do...