Another well-written and insightful post from James Bennett on the ridiculous conflict that seems to spring up between designers and developers. Honestly, Bennett’s writing is so good, you should really just subscribe to him, NOW.
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Designers and developers: FIGHT! by James Bennett
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Friday, June 27, 2008 @ 10:59 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
The basics of creating a tumblelog with Django
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 @ 10:49 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
I’ve been toying with adapting my site code to do this sort of thing. It’s always nice to see when someone else takes the time to publish their solution. I don’t know if I’ll end up doing exactly the same thing, but this post certainly gave me some ideas.
Internet Asshattery, Armchair Scaling Experts Edition
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, April 26, 2008 @ 10:07 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
I was going to ignore this story altogether, but this post from Leonard Lin nails the issue so perfectly that I had to share it with all of you.
Generator Tricks for Systems Programmers
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, April 24, 2008 @ 15:02 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a great guide on generator functions in Python, including use cases. The slides from his presentation (available as a PDF from the linked page) may be the best tutorial I’ve seen on the subject so far.
Django Pluggables: Browsing through code so you don’t have to.
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Friday, April 18, 2008 @ 09:11 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a neat service that collects reusable and “pluggable” Django applications that you can incorporate into your project. While many reusable apps exist, there previously wasn’t any unified listing, so you spent most of your time searching for Google Code projects that had already been put together.
This is just an awesome resource for developers using Django.
Introducing Stackoverflow.com
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, April 17, 2008 @ 11:41 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is Jeff Atwood’s post announcing the new venture that he is starting up with Joel Spolsky. There’s nothing at the actual site yet besides a podcast of a conference call. He sums up the direction of this new site as:
“Stackoverflow is sort of like the anti-experts-exchange (minus the nausea-inducing sleaze and quasi-legal search engine gaming) meets wikipedia meets programming reddit. It is by programmers, for programmers, with the ultimate intent of collectively increasing the sum total of good programming knowledge in the world. No matter what programming language you use, or what operating system you call home. Better programming is our goal.”
I’ll be excited to see where this goes.
Coding Horror: Your Session Has Timed Out
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Wednesday, April 16, 2008 @ 11:15 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is an interesting post by Jeff Atwood on how programmers should handle session expiration in their applications. I particularly like his explanation of why session expiration occurs:
“The HTTP protocol that the web is built on is stateless. That means every individual request your browser sends to a web server is a newborn babe, cruelly born into a world that is utterly and completely oblivious to its existence.” 
Using Django with Appengine
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 23:30 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a useful guide for navigating some of the specifics of getting a Django project up and running on Google App Engine.
Django Rosetta
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 12:09 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Via Simon Willison:
This is a real cool Django app that creates an awesome interface to help internationalize your site. Allows the adminstrator, and an optional group of designated translators to read and write your site’s gettext files.
Django Evolution
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 10:29 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is one of the more promising projects in progress on the Schema Migration front. Schema evolution can be a bit painful and projects like this for automatically migrating database structure based on the Python model code will be a necessity for long term projects.
