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.
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Django Rosetta
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 12:09 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
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.
DZone - fresh links for developers
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, April 12, 2008 @ 07:26 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is a Digg-like site for developers. It’s still fairly small, but I found some really great content that I hadn’t seen before within the first ten minutes of browsing it.
Google Jumps Head First Into Web Services With Google App Engine
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Monday, April 7, 2008 @ 21:53 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
Google provides major infrastructure for web app hosting, in direct competition with Amazon’s Web Services. Google’s service is free unless you go over your limits, which look reasonable at the outset. Your app needs to be written in Python (more languages available later), which will be a limitation for some, but as you may have noticed I am quite fond of that language. 
That being said, the platform is pretty proprietary, and at this point I don’t have enough info on how easy/difficult it is to get your stuff back out of it if you need to. This is an exciting offering, but one I’ll probably wait and watch on.
FormWizard: multiple-step forms in Django
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Wednesday, March 26, 2008 @ 15:38 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is an awesome new feature in Django trunk that I hadn’t heard of before. Django now provides a system for handling multiple step form entry. Can’t wait to try this out.
Django and Comet
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, March 15, 2008 @ 18:13 CDT by Daniel Andrlik
This is an interesting tutorial on using Comet with Django for realtime JS apps. The example is creating a live chat page.
On The Use of Code in Weblog Titles
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Saturday, March 8, 2008 @ 07:37 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Via James Bennett:
Some very clever uses of code in blog titles. My favorite belongs to Charles Miller: tail -f /dev/mind > blog.
Quick Post: My Pownces, Let Me Show You Them
Blog Entry posted on Wednesday, March 5, 2008 @ 17:12 CST by Daniel Andrlik
Heh, I had a little fun this afternoon writing a little Django app for my site that will regularly import my public Pownce notes and allow me to display them in the sidebar. It’s really just a modified version of the app I’m using for my Twitter statuses, except that it has some additional logic for handling the different types of Pownce notes.
The thing I’m most happy about is that if I post a public Pownce event, it will display the event with the appropriate microformat markup. Events also include a link to a Google Map of the location, as well as a link to an iCal file for the event. Those last two are provided for free by the Pownce API, so it just seemed to make sense to use them.
Eventually, the look will get redesigned as I redo this site’s design, but for now I’m pleased with it.
Happy Powncing!
Quick Post: Pownce API 2.0 Now Available
Blog Entry posted on Friday, February 29, 2008 @ 18:25 CST by Daniel Andrlik
In case you missed it, Pownce announced the release of the second revision of its public API today. The new API is much more elaborate than the previous version (which was honestly kind of a joke), and promises to be robust enough that interested parties could use it to rewrite the Pownce desktop app from scratch without losing any functionality. This will really encourage a lot of third-party apps to be developed for Pownce, and will probably be the thing to get the adoption of the service to really take off. I hope they have a nice caching solution for the API, because I suspect a lot of folks will be hitting it up soon.
You can find the API documentation here. I haven’t had a chance to give it a thorough review, but my first approximation is that it is just dripping with awesome-sauce. If prompted, I might even go so far as to say, “w00t!” 
Hack away, folks!
Coding Horror: Douchebaggery
Link bookmarked via Ma.gnolia on Thursday, February 28, 2008 @ 09:52 CST by Daniel Andrlik
This is a pretty funny post by Jeff Atwood reacting to some of David Heinemeier Hansson’s inflammatory comments regarding Windows users. Atwood comes close to crossing a line in it, but succeeds in being a well-reasoned rebuttal with a hell of a punchline.
