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I just downloaded the recently release Open Office 3.0 productivity suite. On first launch of the software, I was prompted to register the software in order to help Sun determine the global market share. I didn’t mind doing this so I clicked the Register button. What transpired was a very long process requiring me to [...]

I haven’t posted any django information in a while because I haven’t had any time to mess with it. Today, I dove back in. I wanted to get a fresh start with the project I’m working on so I thought I’d clear out the database. Why for the life of me I couldn’t find the [...]

Fans of the excellent Python based web application framework Django will be happy to find out that Christmas has come early this year. Apress has just published The Django Book. Every good framework needs excellent documentation in order to break through. It’s a sign that the software has come into it’s own. Django is no [...]

Interested in cutting down on your driving time? It’s easy. Avoid left turns. At least that’s what UPS is doing. according to Heather Robinson, a U.P.S. spokeswoman, the software helped the company shave 28.5 million miles off its delivery routes, which has resulted in savings of roughly three million gallons of gas and has reduced [...]

Django, the hot Python web application framework, provides an excellent administration user interface out of the box. Django originated in the newsroom and it’s reflected throughout the code. The idea behind including an admin interface is that reporters can work on easily submitting their content while the code jockeys work on the fun stuff – [...]

Django, the Python based web framework has a template system which allows you to separate business logic from presentation. It provides a method of substituting variables inside the template using the {% var %} syntax. One of the things you will often need to do is provide links to various views inside your application. However, [...]

Django, the Python based web application framework, is an excellent Model/View/Controller application framework for rich website design. A Django application runs under a web server. However, often it is necessary to develop external scripts that need to interact with you web application data models. This brief tutorial will walk through an example. This may not [...]

“Programming  languages are like girlfriends: the new one is better because *you* are better” – Derek Silvers Found that one in a blog post, from the owner of CD Baby, on why he dumped the Ruby Rails framework and went back to plain old PHP.

“We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.”

Where a new system concept or new technology is used, one has to build a system to throw away, for even the best planning is not so omniscient as to get it right the first time. Hence plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.