Issue #173: Alive

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News

Django Security advisory
It appears that Django's simple_tag decorator for creating custom template tags does not run auto-escaping on its contents.The behaviour for this will be changed in Django 1.9, but in the meantime time to check your code that uses simple_tag to ensure your code isn't vulnerable.
djangoproject.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

Django Developers Community Survey Results
The results are in!
google.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Discussion

You sit down with your machine and a person who knows nothing about programming. What do you show them to try and prove that programming is fun?
reddit.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Do you prefer iPython notebook over iPython console? Why? reddit.com
Shared by @myusuf3

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Projects

ripozo
A tool for quickly creating REST and Hypermedia APIs in Python!
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

nplusone
This is a library for detecting the n+1 queries problem in Python ORMs, including SQLAlchemy, Peewee, and the Django ORM.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

autosub
Auto-generated subtitles for any video file
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

cli-github
Github within the CLI for you console nerds.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

kerf
Kerf is a time-series database. It also boasts being a columnar tick database for Linux/OSX/BSD/iOS/Android. It is written in C and speaks JSON and SQL.
github.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

django-webpack-loader
Setting up webpack and django for ease and profit!
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Articles

Visualizing Google Forms Data with Seaborn
Last time we discussed gathering data from Google Forms. We will then be taking that data and visualizing it with Seaborn.
pbpython.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Gesture Typing by Peter Norvig.
Awesome IPython notebook answering some interesting questions about gesture typing!
ipython.org
Shared by @myusuf3

Progressive Fibonacci
Awesome article on calculating Fibonacci for various criterion.
senko.net
Shared by @mgrouchy

Introduction to Property Based Testing With Hypothesis
Nice introduction on how to use Hypothesis to test your properties in your code base! Helps you find bug you wouldn't have otherwise, maybe.
medium.com
Shared by @myusuf3

Python descriptors made simple
Informative article on Python descriptors.
smallsurething.com
Shared by @mgrouchy

django-slow-tests
Locate your slowest tests.
github.com
Shared by @myusuf3

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