An open source MMO engine, initially based on Game Neverending, written in Django. Sweet. Visit site »
July 21st, 2008–July 25th, 2008 in Portland, OR
Chris has a nice, toughtful response to my blog post that didn’t fit in my 3000 character limit (note: my limit is going up once I switch over to the new version of my CMS!). I generally agree with most of what Chris has to say, and I think he may have misunderstand some of my thoughts: I am in no way suggesting we abandon the existing standards. Rather, I’m suggesting that browser makers should be encouraged to innovate, using the unobtrusive -renderingengine syntax, alongside the existing standards. Visit site »
In my opinion, social network portability is probably the single most important hurdle our Web needs to get over. Tackling it is also probably the single most ambitious Web project someone could take one. Luckily, Brad Fitzpatrick — who has already led the development of the tool that solved all your scalability problems (memcahced) and the tool that solved all your username/password problems (OpenID) — is probably the single most smartest person on this here global network, and he’s on the job.
Now, I feel confident this will actually happen. Maybe not soon — but it will happen. Visit site »
Not quite usable as is it — it doesn’t yet follow relationships and there are a few other things to work out — but this looks like the beginning of a solution for saving the full history of instances of Django models. Having this fucntionality built-in to Django would be absolutely killer. Smart people: please help make it happen! Visit site »
Very convincing. I’m getting out of the iPhone line and into the GPLv3 line. Anyone know where it starts? Visit site »
You may not know that Django isn’t the only open source web application framework developed at The Lawrence Journal-World. No, a completely different unit from ours built Gantry, a Perl-based framework that is start to make quite a name for itself within Perl circles. If you’re a Perl fan, check it out. It’s actually the culmination of over 10 years of web apps coming out of that division — it’s actually older than Django.
Who would have guessed two best-of-class open source web app frameworks would come out of a small newspaper company in Kansas? Visit site »
I’m really excited about Adrian’s new project. It’s a great idea, and it really will be interesting to see how the open source part of it goes. Here’s wishing him and his team all the best! Visit site »
Django creator and web-based journalist Adrian Holovaty won a $1.1 million grant to “create, test and release open-source software that links databases to allow citizens of a large city to learn (and act on) civic information about their neighborhood or block.” If you’ve seen Adrian’s chicagocrime.org, you know the power of this sort of thing. I expect great things. Congrats, Adrian! Visit site »
I was actually in the process of writing almost this exact same blog entry when Jacob’s post showed up in my feed reader. Frustrating! Not entirely unexpected, though, as he and I were just talking at lunch yesterday about how rich the pool of pluggable apps for DJango is becoming.
Jacob mentions django-openid, django-voting, django-tagging, and django-registration. I’d add django-discussion to the list. And don’t forget that Django already includes app for admin interfaces, comments, feeds, and more. It’s becoming a “just bring your own data model” situation.
Seriously, if you can write a model for some type of data (which takes a max of like 30 minutes for things likes blog posts, bookmarks, photos, recipes, reviews, whatever), and then pull in third party apps to let users register and sign in via OpenID, and then more third-party app to tag, vote on, and discuss your data — haven’t you pretty much covered what 90% of the web apps in the world do? Visit site »
Wow, definitely didn’t expect this. Connector is an amazing web app that I’d definitely love to be able to run a local version of and extend for myself. Awesome news. Huge boon to the Ruby and Rails communities. Visit site »