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How to Make Waffle Compatible with Django 1.5's Custom User Models 5 Jul 2013 | 09:47 pm
Waffle is a handy add-on for Django that allows fine-grain control over feature sets within an application. At VM Farms, we use Waffle to control which users have access to specific features that are...
DNS vs DDoS - When 3rd Party Externalities Affect Our Service 29 Jun 2013 | 12:39 am
For the past week or so, Zerigo - our managed DNS provider, has suffered a number of DDoS attacks against its network; thereby disrupting name servers and disabling service for many of our customers. ...
We’re Growing! 28 Jun 2013 | 02:34 am
Well, it’s official. It’s been one year since our last blog post, and almost 20 months since the one before that. Needless to say, although we absolutely love the idea of keeping our community infor...
New Relic Launches App Speed Index and Custom Dashboards 27 Jun 2012 | 06:36 am
This is a guest blog post written and contributed by Bill Hodak, Director of Product Marketing at New Relic, an application performance management vendor and VM Farms partner. New Relic is announcing...
How we solved the remote employee problem for less than $100 (and had a bit of fun) 1 Nov 2011 | 12:39 pm
Problem: Running a startup and coordinating with a colleague that’s 4000km away. How do you remain nimble, keep the pace of ideas flowing, and maintain close working relationships without the overhead...
How to use Deform in Django 25 Oct 2011 | 06:04 am
Django comes with some great modules for form handling. You can have forms generated from models, create your own form classes, build form-sets, and plenty of other goodness. However, it doesn't have ...
It's getting cloudy out there 29 Apr 2011 | 09:16 am
This post originally appeared on StartupNorth.ca. I was approached by David Crow with an appealing proposition; we would help StartupNorth.ca by migrating their site to our infrastructure and have us...
Mysteriously beautiful: using unicorns to manage Python server processes 14 Mar 2011 | 07:09 am
When it comes to deploying Python servers (specifically web servers), there are no shortage of choices. Almost everyone agrees that WSGI is the right way to go, but the choice of a good container is l...
InnoDB hot backups with MySQL-ZRM for free! 10 Mar 2011 | 11:40 am
Everyone knows how important it is to keep reliable database backups and to have them available and guaranteed to work when things go very wrong. This process has largely been automated by ops people ...
Cross Process Locking and Synchronization in Python 8 Mar 2011 | 01:58 pm
Python includes all the bells and whistles to allow for multi-threading and multi-process locking and synchronization. However, the Python libraries lack many of the key features needed for true multi...
