december 2008
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Tech Behind Red Robot Studios Part 2: Versioned Media and Expires Headers in Django posted by Andrew
Read more...We try to make our sites as responsive as possible, and as part of our testing, we realised that we should do the right thing and add Expires Headers to our static media. Our web servers are configured so when a client requests an image, stylesheet or JavaScript file, it is returned along with a far-future expires header. This tells the client not to ask for that file again, but to cache it for a month or more.
Encouraging Caching ...
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Tech Behind Red Robot Studios Part 1: Handling Subdomains in Django posted by Andrew
Read more...This is the first part of our series on some of the more interesting tech we've developed for Red Robot Studios. We're working from webserver up, so we thought that subdomains would be a good place to start.
Subdomains are useful when you want to host multiple sites with the same code and different data. For example, providing websites for clubs where each club has its own subdomain. In Django, you could have a
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Upcoming Series: The Django Tech Behind Red Robot Studios posted by Andrew
Read more...We're proud to announce that we've just launched a new development company: Red Robot Studios. We're really excited, and have a great feeling about the things we'll be able to do with the company over the coming months.
Red Robot Studios, (and it's products) all run on Django, Python, Postgres and Nginx. So, with that in mind, and over the next couple of weeks, we'll be writing some articles on the most interesting aspects ...
