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Ars Technica Review: Practical Django Projects
Just noticed my review has gone up on Ars. Here's a short excerpt: The final, and best, section of this book covers a few topics that have personally revolutionized my understanding and how I think about developing my Django applications. James goes to great lengths to explain the philosophy behind Django’s concept of reusable applications. The idea here is that one should strive to develop small, tightly-focused, and loosely coupled applications (or modules) that can be plugged into any application to add instant functionality. In fact, a large portion of what makes Django such an attractive framework—it's auto-generated admin interface, ...
Posted on: 2008 July 11
Filed under: Ars Technica, Django, Journalism
book, django, jamesbennett, practicaldjangoprojects, review, ubernostrum
Review complete: Practical Django Projects
I wrapped up my review of Practical Django Projects for Ars Technica tonight. Its good to finally get that out the door. Its still going through editing, copy writing, and all that good stuff, but I hope it might go up tomorrow. I'll be sure to link it here.
Posted on: 2008 July 09
Filed under: Ars Technica, Django, Journalism
arstechnica, books, django, jamesbenntt, review, ubernostrum
Did I forget to post about EveryBlock?
A week or two ago, Adrian Holovaty and his intrepid crew at EveryBlock released the product they've been working on for the past 6 months or so. His team of Paul Smith, Wilson Miner, and Daniel X. O'Neil have put together a site that aggregates civic information like business licenses and street closings and mashes them together with crime data, business reviews from Yelp, missed connections & lost and found reports from Craigslist, and more. All these stats can be broken down, viewed by neighborhood or zip code, and analyzed. Most common crime in Chicago? Theft! Other weird stuff I ...
Posted on: 2008 February 02
Filed under: Internet, Journalism, Technology
adrianholovaty, chicago, django, everyblock, hyperlocal, journalism, nyc, SF, wilsonminer
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