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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
2007 in pictures: the second half
Continuing from part one: Something noticed about this particular round-up is that you can watch my hair grow longer and longer through out the year. Since around 2006, I had kept my hair cut fairly short. Around the beginning of 2007, I thought I'd start to let it grow out a bit more. I'd gotten sick of my hair and cut it off, and I had finally gotten sick of short hair. ... and at the end of 2008 I've got at least some hair long enough to tickle my nose. I'm not sure how much further I'm going to ...
2007 in pictures: the first half
As has become a bit of a tradition, I've started picking photos that remind me of specific times over the past year. Flickr makes this really easy, and it's a sort of scrapbook for us to look back upon in years to come. For reference, here are the roundups of 2006. Here are Jacqui's picks 2006 and I hear that 2007 picks are coming soon! As I got going, I realised I had a lot more photos than I wanted to stick into a single post, so I'm going to split them into two. What follows are my favorite photos ...
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