Probably the single most relevant DjangoCon talk for most Djano developers, this fireside chat with Adrian and Jacob really covers the bases on where the framework will go in the future. As a sidenote, it also is a nice showcase of Jacob and Adrian’s personalities: they’re both really, genuine nice guys who are bright as hell but not at all opposed to criticism or other views (traits, which, in my view, have permeated the entire Django community). I’ve had my arguments with both dudes, but in the end, I love ‘em both. Great guys. Visit site »
Frank Wiles has a nice piece on Django in the latest issue of Linux Magazine. He talks to Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss and covers all the basics. Both Frank and Jacob worked for the Lawrence Journal-World back when I did and have since moved on. In fact, Frank led the team that built a very cool Perl web framework called Gantry (http://www.usegantry.org/). It’s a little known bit of trivia that the Lawrence Journal-World actually is home to not one, but TWO open source web frameworks. Not bad for a small-town newspaper in Kansas, huh?
Not god enough for you? How about this: Linux Magazine is also based in Lawrence. :) Visit site »
Randal Schwartz of the TWiT networks’ FLOSS podcast interviewed Django lead developer Jacob Kaplan-Moss for the show’s latest episode. It’s a great interview, which covers everything from Django’s history to how it compares to Rails and other Python frameworks, to what Jacob hates about PHP and Java, to and general overview of what Django is and how it works. Really good stuff. If you’re curious about Django, definitely check it out. Visit site »
My man Jacob is leaving the Lawrence Journal-World for a startup that’s going to let him working on Django itself most of the time. Hard to blame him for that. Should be great for Jacob and great for Django. Congrats, man! Visit site »
Jacob Kaplan-Moss has put together pretty much the coolest thing I’ve seen in a long time. Can’t wait to play with this. Be sure to check out the example page. Sooo nice. Visit site »
DjangoBook.com, the online location where you can get the entire text of Jacob and Adrian’s new book The Definitive Guide to Django, has been updated to reflect the final copy used in the print edition (published by Apress — you can get it from Amazon). I’ve just received my print edition and it looks really, really great, so far. Congrats, guys. Visit site »
Congrats to Jacob Kaplan-Moss and Adrian Holovaty, who have finished writing on The Django Book, their forthcoming Apress title. It will be the definitive guide to web programming using everyone’s favorite rapid web application development framework. Of course, you can get almost all of it online, for free. Visit site »
A killer tutorial done by Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Jeremy Dunck, and Simon WIllison at OSCON yesterday. Tons of great “advanced” Django topics are covered, including middleware, signals, scaling, AJAX, and more. Great stuff. Visit site »
Jacob Kaplan-Moss: “Like everyone else, I got sick of looking at Marker Felt on my iPhone. So I did something about it.”
I’m not ballsy enough to do it on my new Jesus Phone, but if you’ve got an iPhone and gonads of steel, this one’s for you. Visit site »
“Dear Adobe — Acrobat (Reader) sucks gigantic mountain-goat testicles.” Kinda hard to argue with that. Visit site »
A nice piece on PBS.com about the fact that some newspapers are getting hip to the fact that they need web programmers. I wish more of them would start getting with the idea of having great web designers, too.
Quotes from Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss included. Visit site »
If you’ve got the basics of Django down, these slides might help you take it to the next level. I wish I could have been there! Visit site »
Jacob did this fun little web app for his PyCon presentation. I threw together a 30-minute design for him in Photoshop, and he munged it into HTML and CSS. It’s a Django app with full source code available — great for learning Django! Visit site »