Nov. 13, 2007 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
A quick update on the Django Book: Adrian and I wrapped up the last few bits last week, and the book went to the printer on Friday. It should start shipping to bookstores around the second week of December. There’s still a fair amount of work that needs to be done on the website, so I can’t put the final version of the book up just yet. However, the final book will be available online around the same time as the dead tree version.
Read MoreJune 8, 2007 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
First national conference on Free Software and Plone for companies, institutions and public administrations.
Read MoreMay 22, 2007 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
I’ve always thought that the sign of a healthy Open Source project is a vibrant ecosystem around that project. That’s why I’ve been thrilled to see that there are a bunch of cool third-party Django add-ons popping up. I thought I’d take a few minutes and give a shout out to some of my favorites. django-openid OpenID evangelist and Alpha Geek Extraordinare Simon Willison wrote this set of tools which lets your Django application become an OpenID consumer.
Read MoreMay 2, 2007 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
I’m extremely excited to announce our new internship program here in Lawrence. Starting this summer we’re going to be hiring interns to join our kick-ass team and learn the ropes. If you’re a student, or if you’re trying to break into the world of next-generation web development, I can’t think of a better place to get started. You’ll get to spend up to six months developing cool toys (in Django, of course), live in one of the coolest towns in the country, and…
Read MoreMarch 22, 2007 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
So here’s a question I get asked a lot: “How big is Django’s community?” Anyone who works in open source knows that it’s basically impossible to know the size of any open source community. It’s easy with commercial programs – just look at the sales numbers – but since F/OSS is freely (and widely) available, there’s almost no way to know how many people are using your project. Still, the tie-wearing enterprisy business folks ask these types o…
Read MoreFeb. 13, 2007 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
First public release of Plango, a product for Plone that replaces the standard Plone icons with those of the Tango Desktop Project.
Read MoreAug. 22, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
So it seems the BDFL Pronounced that Django is the Python web framework. Obviously this makes me pretty damn happy. I’m sure this will help people trying to choose a web framework come to Django, and I think they’ll like what they find. Personally, I think Django’s the best tool to develop web sites – but of course I think that. However, I want to make sure everyone has read Kevin Dangoor’s thoughts on the announcement.
Read MoreJuly 20, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
Lately a large number of questions posted to django-users have included phrases like “this is a show-stopper” or “this is critical”. I think it’s worth my time to point out that this is a lousy method of getting developers to do what you want. It’s the online equivalent of threatening to take your ball and go home, and is about as effective. I understand the impulse perfectly: there’s the fear that we won’t take you seriously if you don’t te…
Read MoreJuly 17, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
My last entry about my dog eating my DSlite hit Digg (screenshot), Reddit (screenshot), and a couple of other big-traffic sites over the weekend. Pretty cool, but the coolest part is that my server — a single commodity Linux box that cost less than $3,000, running about 15 other sites — didn’t even hiccup. Reason #4453 to use Django? It’s fast. Crazy fast. Oh, and to all the Diggers who suggested that I should kill my dog?
Read MoreJune 30, 2006 » django on Jacob Kaplan-Moss » [Archived Version]
I just found this in my django-ego-feed: 23 excuses: Simple Django View for Dynamic Text Replacement I’ve been using something similar to generate the titles for the site (look at the title above for an example), so I’m pretty familiar with the technique. Andrew’s code over there is pretty good, but I’ve got a few improvements he and you might be interested in: The business to writing to a temp file is ugly and will break as soon as you get two simultaneous requests.
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