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Versioning: The Next Big Thing
In the web development world, anyways. So, in the grand scheme of things, maybe not a huge deal to anyone else. Versioning is going to be one of the biggest problems and opportunities there is in web...
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Django Gets Transactions
Jacob Kaplan-Moss added transaction support to the magic-removal branch of Django just a few minutes ago. It’s one of the many changes to come out of the sprint. Usage will look something like this...
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Django And The Disappearing Template Tags
If you are defining custom template tags, don’t put them in a file named log.py. You’ll be able to {% load log %} fine in your template, but you won’t be able to use your tags. No, this isn’t...
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Django Template Tag for Dictionary Access
About a million times when writing Django pages I’ve been iterating through a list of objects and wanted to look up a value in a dictionary keyed by object.id. But you can’t, the built-in tags don’t...
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Washington Post Update
It’s been a long time since I’ve written about what I’ve been up to at the Washington Post, so let me run down the apps I’ve worked on since September 2007 in roughly linear order. Lots of these apps...
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Django vs Rails: The Dead-Tree Edition
Django Rails In Conclusion The difference speaks for itself. I’ll write about why this matters tomorrow. (Yeah, I used the Fancy Link Builder I posted yesterday about. It was infuriating to use, it has...
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Open Source Communities
Open source projects should be judged as much by their community as by their technological achievements. The code tells you what it’s good for, but the community tells you what its future is....
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OpenOffice.org Losing Viability
OpenOffice.org developer Michael Meeks analyzed 2008 commit data to show that the project is losing steam: decreasing numbers of commits, developers, and companies. He rhetorically asks about how the...
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