This is a useful guide for navigating some of the specifics of getting a Django project up and running on Google App Engine.
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Using Django with Appengine
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 23:30 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Django Rosetta
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 12:09 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Via Simon Willison:
This is a real cool Django app that creates an awesome interface to help internationalize your site. Allows the adminstrator, and an optional group of designated translators to read and write your site’s gettext files.
DZone - fresh links for developers
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 07:26 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a Digg-like site for developers. It’s still fairly small, but I found some really great content that I hadn’t seen before within the first ten minutes of browsing it.
Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, April 7, 2008 @ 21:53 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Google provides major infrastructure for web app hosting, in direct competition with Amazon’s Web Services. Google’s service is free unless you go over your limits, which look reasonable at the outset. Your app needs to be written in Python (more languages available later), which will be a limitation for some, but as you may have noticed I am quite fond of that language. 
That being said, the platform is pretty proprietary, and at this point I don’t have enough info on how easy/difficult it is to get your stuff back out of it if you need to. This is an exciting offering, but one I’ll probably wait and watch on.
FormWizard: multiple-step forms in Django
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 @ 15:38 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is an awesome new feature in Django trunk that I hadn’t heard of before. Django now provides a system for handling multiple step form entry. Can’t wait to try this out.
Django and Comet
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, March 15, 2008 @ 18:13 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is an interesting tutorial on using Comet with Django for realtime JS apps. The example is creating a live chat page.
First date with the Googlebot: Headers and compression
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Thursday, March 6, 2008 @ 21:43 CST by Daniel Andrlik
From the Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: This is a cute explanation of how the Googlebot works when crawling and indexing sites.
Quick Post: My Pownces, Let Me Show You Them
Blog Entry posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 @ 17:12 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Heh, I had a little fun this afternoon writing a little Django app for my site that will regularly import my public Pownce notes and allow me to display them in the sidebar. It’s really just a modified version of the app I’m using for my Twitter statuses, except that it has some additional logic for handling the different types of Pownce notes.
The thing I’m most happy about is that if I post a public Pownce event, it will display the event with the appropriate microformat markup. Events also include a link to a Google Map of the location, as well as a link to an iCal file for the event. Those last two are provided for free by the Pownce API, so it just seemed to make sense to use them.
Eventually, the look will get redesigned as I redo this site’s design, but for now I’m pleased with it.
Happy Powncing!
The B-List: The future of web standards
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, December 17, 2007 @ 09:05 CST by Daniel Andrlik
This is a really great analysis from James Bennett on some of the questions that have been circulating lately regarding the future of web standards. He suggests that we might look to the open-source model for guidance on how to proceed. I share a lot of Bennett’s views on this matter, but as always he writes it far better than I ever could.
Two-Faced Django Part 1: Building a project that exists simultaniously on Facebook and the web
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, December 14, 2007 @ 11:12 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Via Simon Willison
Will Larson has prepared a really excellent tutorial on building a Django application that will have both a web app and a Facebook app component to its interface.
