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“Django 1.0 Template Development” book review
Ultimately, buying Django 1.0 Template Development comes down to what kind of learner you are: Django’s official documentation, the Django Book, and the Django users Google Group, should give most Web developers and template authors enough to learn most of the template system, but the book can be a handy reference and walk-through that will hold your hand in a lot of sticky points. The examples in the book are bound to teach something to even the most seasoned Django developers.
A gentle introduction to the Django Web framework
In this week’s edition of II’s summer guest blogger series, Richard Cornish discusses Django, both providing examples of Django projects and a brief history of how it came about. Cornish is an interaction designer at the Lawrence Journal-World, where Django was developed.
Journalism programmers – join us on Ning!
Journalist Justin McLachlan started a social network on Ning yesterday specifically for journalists and coders to discuss “how programming and the news can go together.” So far, we have 21 talented developers within four sub-groups: Actionscript, HTML/CSS, Ruby on Rails, and Django. I look forward to utilizing Ning to connect with and learn from journalists who are embracing programming concepts to further storytelling. Therefore, I encourage all II readers to join!
Tampa Bay Mug Shots utilizes Django for innovative database
St. Petersburg Times launched a brilliant interactive on Monday, utilizing booking information to create a database of the most recent arrests in their area. According to Shelby Sapusek, a media-focused twitterer, this package received 100,000 hits in the first 3 hours. Now that’s what I call a return on investment! Even better, they bypassed Flash and produced this package with Django, an open-source software known for it’s rich database capabilities under a tight deadline.
The mystery behind the programming of the LA Times homicide map is now solved!
Thanks to Eric Ulken, editor of interactive technology at latimes.com, I now have an answer for how they built their amazing homicide map that I blogged about a while back. So, specifically for those programmers out there, here is his response to my inquiry:
“The UI is actually AJAX-based, and the underlying database app [...]
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