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added 2008 Thu Jul 31 7:00:00 by unknown user
A nice new site by David Larlet archiving a collection of open source reusable Django apps for such technologies as OpenID, OAuth, Microformats, RDF, FOAF, REST, Atom, and so forth. Saved By: Jeff Croft | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2008 Mon Jul 28 7:00:00 by unknown user
Randal Schwartz of the TWiT networks' FLOSS podcast interviewed Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss for the show's latest episode. It's a great interview, which covers everything from Django's history to how it compares to Rails and other Python frameworks, to what Jacob hates about PHP and Java, to and general overview of what Django is and how it works. Really good stuff. If you're curious about Django, definitely check it out. Saved By: Jeff Croft | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2008 Mon Mar 24 7:00:00 by unknown user
I don't use Pownce enough to make this useful for me personally, but I'll be damned if it isn't one of the coolest uses of a public-facing API I've seen in a while. Awesome. Saved By: Jeff Croft | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2008 Wed Feb 13 7:00:00 by unknown user
I would have included DHH's "PHP is the devil," but what do I know? Saved By: Jeff Croft | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2008 Fri Feb 8 7:00:00 by unknown user
I would have included DHH's "PHP is the devil," but what do I know? Saved By: Jeff Croft | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Tue Dec 11 7:00:00 by unknown user
Sweet. Looks to have several major feature additions. Congrats to David and the whole Rails community! Saved By: Jeff Croft | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Sat Dec 8 7:00:00 by unknown user
Garrett doles out some great tips for developers at the Blue Flavor blog. As it turns out, every single one of these could also be applied to web designers. Great stuff. Saved By: Jeff Croft | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Thu Dec 6 7:00:00 by unknown user
Python can make you fly -- like that lame ass West guy on Heroes. Saved By: Jeff Croft | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Tue Oct 9 7:00:00 by unknown user
Leah has posted her slides from the recent Future of Web Apps conference in London, detailing her lessons learned in developing Pownce, the popular Django-based social web app. Saved By: Jeff Croft | View Details | Give Thanks

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added 2007 Sun Aug 19 7:00:00 by unknown user
Jacob Kaplan-Moss installed Django (and Python, obviously) on his iPhone. Then, he used Django's database introspection tool to build Django models for the iPhone's built-in call database. Then, he used DJango's built-in admin tool to view/edit said call database. Then, he took a [screenshot of it](http://www.flickr.com/photos/jacobian/1161717658/). Saved By: Jeff Croft | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Sat Jul 21 7:00:00 by unknown user
Jack Slocum takes yui-ext beyond it's yui roots to support jQuery and Prototype as base libraries. Saved By: jstembridge | View Details | Give Thanks
added 2007 Fri Jun 15 7:00:00 by unknown user
Although you can make it work with most any Python development setup, it is optimized for use with Django. Nice.
added 2007 Wed Mar 28 7:00:00 by unknown user
Aaron Gustafson (who is a helluva nice guy, and super smart to boot) has a nice piece on ALA which deals largely with sites that require JavaScript. Aaron seems to advocate that one should never *require* JavaScript in their web app, but rather use it only as an enhancement to improve the UI for that visitors with JavaScript enabled (and this, coming from a JavaScript guy). I don't quite agree with Aaron here. I believe there are cases where it's fair to require JavaScript in a web app. We make all kinds of techniqual requirements for desktop apps (you must have *x* amount of RAM, you must have such-and-such video card, etc.) , and I don't see why it should be any different online. That having been said, we should only make these requirements in cases where the app simply isn't possible with them -- which is definitely *not* the case in the examples Aaron uses in the article. Overall, I agree with the sentiment that we should always try to make our apps work without JavaScript. But, I also think there are cases where that simply isn't possible.
added 2007 Mon Feb 5 7:00:00 by unknown user
Simon has a nice piece on good URLs, and especially the idea that you should never have two "real" URLs that point to the same place (instead, you should have one "real" URL and one redirect to the real URL). One of my favorite things about the new-fangled web app frameworks like Rails and Django is their encouragement of good, readable URLs. Good URLs are important. Use them!
added 2007 Tue Jan 30 7:00:00 by unknown user
In choosing a framework, a web developer does a exhaustive series of performance tests, comparing Django, Ruby on Rails, TurboGears, CodeIgniter, Symfony, and Catalyst -- and publishes the results. As with all benchmarks I've seen, Django is the clear winner.
added 2007 Sun Jan 21 7:00:00 by unknown user
Hah. I love this. It's fun, it's clever, and it will make your inner geek happy.
added 2007 Tue Jan 16 7:00:00 by unknown user
James Bennett, our World Online Javascript guru, dives into the world of Javascript libraries, address common concerns with them such as trusting code written by others, bloat, and whether or not one actually need to full understand Javascript in order to use them. Very well-writen.
added 2006 Fri Dec 29 7:00:00 by jcroft
Paul's favorite tools for Flash development. Handy -- I'll be checking these out.
added 2006 Tue Dec 26 7:00:00 by jcroft
The ever-brilliant Simon moves to a new domain and a new CMS -- one he wrote, naturally -- in Django.
added 2006 Fri Nov 17 7:00:00 by jcroft
James Bennett continues his series of Django tips with a great piece on getting the most out of generic views. Generic views, while useful to real programmers like James, are absolutely essential to designers like me who want to do cool things while writing as little "real" code as possible. James shows how to "wrap " generic views in a few lines of simple Python to extend their functionality.
added 2006 Wed Oct 11 7:00:00 by jcroft
Djames Bennett's article at Sitepoint on how to build a Django app, from beginning to end. Very well-done. Check it out.
added 2006 Mon Sep 25 7:00:00 by jcroft
Petro Verkhogliad shows how to build a simple search engine for your Django site. This is more or less how I did the live search here on jeffcroft.com. It's just a few lines of code, works well, and performs reasonably. No doubt a dedicated searching engine with indexing would be better, but this works well for the needs of many sites.
added 2006 Mon Sep 11 7:00:00 by jcroft
James Bennett continues his great series of Django tips and tricks with an explanation of how applications and projects are laid out, including some tasty conventions that will help you keep your shit together.
added 2006 Thu Aug 10 7:00:00 by jcroft
Yahoo now has a large library of utilities and documentation on accessing their services using Python. You'll notice there isn't a Ruby development center. ;)
added 2006 Fri Aug 4 7:00:00 by jcroft
Another nice example of how to "do AJAX" with Django. I really think it's important that the Django community dispel this crazy myth that Django doesn't "do AJAX" just because it doesn't favor one particular JavaScript library like Rails does.
added 2006 Wed Aug 2 7:00:00 by jcroft
"One valuable measure of a framework is the ease with which it can be extended to meet one's needs." This article introduces Django's database API, and demonstrates its flexibility by extending it to support MySQL's full-text search capabilities. Very cool, if MySQL-specific.


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