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What Will Replace Big-City Newspapers?

What Will Replace Big-​City News­pa­pers? - Great obser­va­tion on the local adver­tis­ing market: "People look at local as this one-​ton gorilla, but in fact it's 2,000 one-​pound monkeys," said Gordon Borrell.

September 30, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

Proposal: django.forms.SafeForm

Pro­posal: django.forms.SafeForm - A fan­tas­tic dis­cus­sion around CSRF attacks and build­ing a Djan­gothonic solu­tion to them, (I agree that the mid­dle­ware feels a tad magical).

September 24, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

django-rcsfield - Google Code

django-​rcsfield - Google Code - Ooooooh. Ahh­h­hhh. What's not to like?

September 19, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

Amazon S3 + CDN

Amazon S3 + CDN - What's not to love about that? (via Zellyn)

September 18, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

Denormalisation Follies

Denor­mal­i­sa­tion Fol­lies - Rich in custom field good­ness. Nice solu­tion to making denor­mal­iza­tion easier.

September 16, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

New York Times releasing document viewer, missing the point

E-media Tid­bits is report­ing that the New York Times is releas­ing an open-​source doc­u­ment viewer. To be fully buzz­word com­pli­ant it’s both built in Ruby on Rails and there’ll be Amazon EC2 instances avail­able. (Actu­ally the EC2 instance is kind of a neat way to dis­trib­ute software…) While I’m sure this will set off a storm of [...]

September 16, 2008 | Categories: Journalism, Programming, Technology

Django in the Enterprise

Long-​time read­ers know of my dis­like for the word enter­prise, but the truth is that many of us work for just such a beast. Luck­ily I get to use Django at my job and I thought I’d share what little I know of how to get Django into a big com­pany. Start small — If your pitch starts [...]

September 15, 2008 | Categories: Django, Python

Rocky Mountain News ‘Tweets’ the funeral of 3-year old boy killed in ice cream shop

Rocky Moun­tain News ‘Tweets’ the funeral of 3-year old boy killed in ice cream shop - Jour­nal­ism FAIL. Decency FAIL. Get­ting it FAIL. (via The Col­orado Independent )

September 11, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

Mollom

Mollom - Inter­est­ing anti-​spam ser­vice that's sim­i­lar to Akismet. Instead of simply tag­ging it spam or ham, it'll also allow "unsure" com­ments to be chal­lenged with a captcha. Devel­oped by the Drupal folks but it works with Word­Press and it has a Python API.

September 6, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

Postalicious

Posta­l­i­cious - I'm trying this out in lieu of my own aban­don­ware Word​Pre.​cio.us, if it works I'll prob­a­bly kill Word​Pre.​cio.us.

September 5, 2008 | Categories: Blogmarks

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