I predicted this back in March--can't believe a solution has surfaced so soon. It makes so much sense to build in an issue tracker to a revision control system. Since you're working with the code, might as well track the issues in the same system and take advantage of the extra metadata. This is really cool (and as a bonus, it's written in Python) so I hope to see it really grow and flourish!
Daily blog by Kevin Fricovsky. In addition to having some really great content, he has started to post audio interviews with people from the Django community. This is a site to keep an eye on in the coming days and months.
Demo site for django-arcade, an open source reusable Django app to add new flash games to any django-powered site. Looks very cool for easily creating game portals. It also comes from my future employer.
Eugene Letuchy talks about how they they took Facebook Chat from no users to 70 million users, with the help of Erlang.
I somehow missed this presentation when it came out, but it's an absolutely fantastic overview and defense of OpenID by Simon Willison. If you are in any way interested in what OpenID is and what it can offer, you owe it to yourself to check out this presentation.
Probably the simplest XML library that I've seen for Python. Sometimes you just want to generate some stupid XML, and this is the perfect tool for the job.
This is awesome. That is all.
This has been a long time coming, and thanks to the incredible efforts of Malcolm Tredinnick and others, Django has just gotten a heck of a lot better!
A New York City-based Django user group. It's great to see these local Django user groups, and Kevin Fricovsky and Loren Davie seem to be putting a lot of effort into this one. Hopefully this becomes a huge success! If you're a Django enthusiast in NYC, check it out and join in on the discussion.
Library for building and deploying Python projects. What's really cool about this project is that it brings together setuptools, nose, and sphinx. It's bootstrapped, as well, using itself for its own purposes.
Is it possible for something to simultaneously be the worst and the best thing that I've ever seen? This video tests that question.
Quote from Ryan Tomayko: Remember a long time ago, at the dinner table, when your kid brother mashed together a bunch of food that really should not have been mashed together – chicken, jello, gravy, condiments, corn, milk, peas, pudding, all that stuff – and proceeded to eat it? And loved it! And then your crazy uncle, having seen the look of disgust on your face, said: “it all goes to the same place!” Remember that? No? Then you were probably the one shoving nasty shit into your face, but the important thing to understand here is that your uncle is crazy. And so is Git.
Fun list of rights that this author believes every programmer should have. I agree with most of the items on the list!
A search app for Django with support for multiple search engines. In alpha state right now, but it's being developed by the people behind Django itself. Looks like it's going to be awesome once it's finished!
Handy snippet for those who are using FCGI and Django together. It brings the fcgi settings away from the command line and into the settings file, making deployment that much easier. I don't personally use FCGI, but if I did, I'd definitely be using this snippet.
Hot on the trail of my last link, WebKit is the first to reach 100/100 in a public build. This is probably more impressive IMHO than Opera's achievement, because you can download and try it out today. I'm still anxious to see who's first to get this shipped en masse.
"If a module isn't capable of storing timezone information in other SQL databases, how can it be of good code quality?"
Seems like there's been a rush to hit 100 between WebKit and Opera, and Opera has won. The next rush should be to see who can first get this released into a stable, shipping product.
Brian Rosner has implemented a function to run the Django test suite that makes use of multi-cored processors using the awesome processing module. The idea came after he and I were disappointed in the performance of the test suite on an 8-core Mac Pro at the Apple store in Chicago.
This is such a true comic. Makes me laugh but also sad for all of the corporate apps out there.
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