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Link bookmarked via Diigo on Friday, April 18, 2008 @ 09:11 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a neat service that collects reusable and “pluggable” Django applications that you can incorporate into your project. While many reusable apps exist, there previously wasn’t any unified listing, so you spent most of your time searching for Google Code projects that had already been put together.
This is just an awesome resource for developers using Django.
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 23:30 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a useful guide for navigating some of the specifics of getting a Django project up and running on Google App Engine.
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.
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 10:29 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is one of the more promising projects in progress on the Schema Migration front. Schema evolution can be a bit painful and projects like this for automatically migrating database structure based on the Python model code will be a necessity for long term projects.
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.
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.
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!
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Monday, March 3, 2008 @ 15:20 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Awesome! Someone has already developed a Jabber Bot for use with Pownce. It’s set up as a reusable Django app, which means that anyone with a Django site could set it up and run the bot. Also, since Pownce is written with Django and the bot is released with an MIT license, Pownce could also officially adopt and implement this application as well.
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Wednesday, January 23, 2008 @ 20:11 CST by Daniel Andrlik
EveryBlock is an awesome idea and an incredible service. I wish they had it for my town.
Link bookmarked via Diigo on Tuesday, January 1, 2008 @ 09:29 CST by Daniel Andrlik
This is an excellent interview with Adrian Holovaty, covering his work with Django, Python, and how he got involved in this dual-discipline of computer science/journalism.
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