Figures this comes out right after I launch my site. After reading up on it, I’m not sure it’d work with what I needed (I have to have variable shipping costs) but I might try it out with another project since it looks simple to use and the extra level of integration looks slick.
Saved for a few projects I’d like to do on this site.
A huge congratulations to everyone involved! For those curious few out there this site is Django powered, and although I haven’t been actively involved in the community or developing with it for all that long, I have to say it’s easily my favorite way to build websites. The freedom and control it provides to get my designs realized quickly hasn’t been possible with anything else I’ve used. With Django I’ve always felt I’ve been doing things “the right way” and to see it at 1.0 is just one more reason to check it out if you haven’t already.
Just what I’ve been looking for. Since I’m still a Django noob whenever I step outside of creating templates, I’ve been needing some good testing environments to start to learn. I’ll be checking these out hopefully in the next few days.
For those of you over in England and are interested in learning Django I can’t recommend this workshop more. Jeff has pretty much taught me everything I know about Django and is an excellent teacher.
After a few comments and now more than a few emails asking me for my Wordpress theme for this site I figured it was high time to explain a bit about how my site works and the concepts behind it.
The idea is a simple one, but with a bit of an over-the-top solution: I just want a personal site that incorporates (go figure) everything I do online (the vast majority of it, anyway). Since new toys pop-up all the time, I want the site to be flexible enough to deal with any new service that I might fancy down the road.
Blogs aren’t enough. People are tweeting, posting photos to Flickr, adding events to Upcoming, bookmarking to Del.icio.us and Ma.gnolia and generally just “life streaming.” Each of these has their own community that I enjoy participating in, so I don’t want to abandon them with the hope of trying to build an entirely new audience on my own site. The solution is obvious, bring in all my distributed “stuff” from these services to my personal site.
I’ve already got a few ideas already on how I’d like to use these.
A nicely designed Django project repository by Bryan Veloso. I just wish it had search.
Bar charts, timelines, sparklines, oh my. The article by Wilson Miner all about accessible data visualization is chalked full of great ideas and practical ways of implementing them.
Looks like a great way to start hosting something for free just to see where it goes.
Nathan Borror over at Playground Blues talks about how he setup his Django powered site for mobile, and for him that meant an iPhone site. It looks great, and now I just wish I had some snazzy icons like his for my sections.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss has created some awesome new template tags for Google Charts. Don’t miss the example page.
Rex Sorgatz does a fantastic job interviewing Adrian Holovaty about EveryBlock. I wish I got to hang out a few more times with Rex before he headed out to NY.
Oh man, I don’t know if I want to dip my feet into YAF (yet another framework) but after reading two articles by designers it gives me hope that this one might actually be easy enough for me to learn.