Jacob Kaplan-Moss

Activity tagged “for:holovaty”

Bookmarks

Apress.The.Definitive.Guide.to.Django.Dec.2007.eBook-BBLAddison. (download torrent) - TPB

I've been pirated! I'm so happy about this that I can barely contain myself!

(apress, book, django, for:holovaty, piracy)

This American Life: 110: Mapping

I'd forgotten about this episode (from late 1998) until it was re-run this weekend. Very apropos to the current amateur cartography craze. The first act is especially wonderful

(for:holovaty, for:mcroydon, mapping, radio, thisamericanlife)

Times to End Charges on Web Site - New York Times

The Times finally gets a clue. Welcome to the real Internet, folks.

(business, for:dancox, for:davidryan, for:holovaty, journalism, newspapers, web)

code.sixapart.com/svn/perlbal/trunk/doc

Yes, there are docs for perlbal; you just need to know where to look. Also see the example configs (up a level and over).

(for:holovaty, perlbal, reference)

NBI ASCII Files - Bridge - FHWA

National Bridge Inventory data from the FHA. 2000-2006 data; incredibly clean.

(bridges, data, for:holovaty, for:mcroydon, publicdata)

Montel Williams - Today on Montel

Daytime tear-jerking, now powered by Django.

(daytimetv, django, djangopowered, for:holovaty, for:simonw, ty)

Lawrence Journal-World / Lawrence & Douglas County Progress 2007

Catch a sneak peak at the new design of ljworld.com. Launching site-wide this week, Murphy willing.

(ellington, for:holovaty, for:simonw, lawrence, ljworld)

5 Question Interview with Twitter Developer Alex Payne

All the convenience methods and syntactical sugar that makes Rails such a pleasure for coders ends up being absolutely punishing, performance-wise.” That, right there, is why Django is written the way it is.

(django, for:holovaty, performance, quotes, rails, ruby, scaling)

Ask Reddit: How did you end up using Django? (reddit.com)

A good collection of stories from Django users. Gives me the warm fuzzies :)

(development, django, for:holovaty, programming, python, web)

pythong.org.

These guys have some interesting ideas about Python Packaging.

(for:holovaty, for:jcroft, for:korpios, for:mcroydon, for:sketch22, pycon2007, python)

Alrond | The performance test of 6 leading frameworks

Yet another benchmark of web frameworks, and yet another win for Django (this time it comes out around 3x faster than any of the alternatives).

(django, for:holovaty, lies-damned-lies, performance)

Index of /sandbox/dkuhlman/OpenDocument

reST —> ODT converter. Works very well, unlike some of the other converters in the docutils sandbox.

(book, docutils, for:holovaty, odf, odt, openoffice, tools)

CS 683: Course Web Site

Apparently San Diego State has a class on Django (with a link to my Google talk…). Cool.

(cool, django, ego, for:holovaty)

ABS-CBN Interactive

His impressive streak, however, came under threat from Germany’s Ortmann, who was also unbeaten in four games before facing Django.”

(django, for:holovaty, for:simonw, funny)

The One That's Not About Music: The Daily Dbase | texasgigs.com

Mike's spin on database journalism. It's a great look at the same stuff Adrian's been talking about the the point of view of a (mostly) non-geek. Why can't all our clients be this cool?

(for:dancox, for:holovaty, for:mcroydon, journalism, news, web)

The Fishbowl: Why is XSS so common?

This is a pretty strong argument that Django should do default template escaping. Guess I'm starting to change my mind.

(for:holovaty, security, xss)