LOST producers Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse have put together a collection of audiobooks that somehow relate to LOST. Fun. Visit site »
Guido, Python’s creator and programmer God, has this to say about Django:
Django is still my favorite — not only is it a pretty darn good web framework that matches my style of developing, it is also an exemplary example of a good open source project, run by people who really understand community involvement.
That’s a solid endorsement. Via Jacob. Visit site »
Kevin had me on for one of his patented “callcasts” yesterday, and has posted the result today. We talked about Django, Blue Flavor, new-fangled CSS properties, the great experimental web design of the late ‘90s, and more. It’s a short, laid-back conversation about a lot of different things, and it was definitely fun to do. Check it out! Visit site »
I watched Secrect Diary a few months ago, before it came on SHO, and rather enjoyed it. It’s very well done and has really portrays London in a beautiful, real kind of way (London being my favorite city I’ve been to so far). Here, Salon talks to real upper-class call girls about the show, asking them what’s realistic, what’s not, and so forth. A fun read. Visit site »
A few weeks ago, Nathan Borror and I were at Free State Brewery in Lawrencem talking about how it would be cool if a template could extend itself — that is to say, extend the same template at another path in the TEMPLATE_DIRS settings. Overhearing us, Jeff Tripplett, Eric Holscher, and James Bennett had a few ideas, but no definitive solutions. Today, I found out that conversation ultimately sparked Daniel Lindsley to write a template tag that adds the functionality. Then, Django co-creator Simon Willison came along to detail yet another solution which can be achieved without additional code. It’s a bit “devious,” as Simon calls it, but it’s certainly clever and doesn’t feel particularly inelegant to me. I’m still looking forward to Daniel’s tag, but it’s great to know you can do this without it. Visit site »
Bert is, of course, referring to symbolic constants, which many people seem to want to call “variables,” even though they’re really not. Anyway, he contends that the idea of constants in CSS is flawed, in large part because added complexity makes CSS more difficult to learn. I think this is kind of absurd. CSS is easy to learn. Really easy, in fact (I’ve said for years that the only hard part of HTML and CSS is browser bugs. Take browser bugs out of the equation, and CSS is child’s play). If symbolic constants are really so complicated that non-programers can’t grasp them (which they’re not), then they simply don’t have to use them.
But even more importantly than that: why is keeping CSS easy to learn so damned important? The only people that need to know CSS are web developers. This notion of keeping it simple so “regular people” can read and understand it is silly. Doctors, lawyers, and pharmacists don’t keep their specs and documentation simple so regular people can understand it, because regular people don’t need to understand it. Why does the W3 seem to place such an emphasis on making CSS palatable to everyone? Visit site »
GeoDjango is so far over my head that it doesn’t meant much to be, but I hear it’s awesome news, so I figured I’d link it up. :) Visit site »
I like how half the people who responded with suggestions were people I had on my list of candidates. :)
So if I do this podcast conversations thing, who are some web professionals you’d be interested in hearing me chat with?
An estimated 125,000 Western lowland gorillas are living in a swamp in equatorial Africa, researchers reported Tuesday, double the number of the endangered primates thought to survive worldwide.
If 125,000 huge gorillas can live undetected by humans for however long it takes to spawn 125,000 gorillas, I have no reason to doubt a species like, say, Bigfoot, could do the same thing. Just sayin’. Visit site »