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YADPS: Wanderlogue.com
My friends Josh Works and Jessa Talamentez preview their new travel-blogging site, which will let you sign up and create “wanderlogues” of your travels — including Flickr photos, journal entries, geocoding information with maps, and more. It looks really great. Definitely check it out. Django-powered, of course!
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You know where you are: Django Gotchas
Nathan Borror, the new speed king of rapid blog development in Django, points out a few common “gotchas” when working with Django and Python. Good stuff.
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YADPS: Greenpeace
Yet another Django-powered site.
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graphicPUSH - KC Chiefs’ Tragic Online Fumble
Kevin Potts on the Chiefs new site: “The Kansas City Chiefs have traded in their Happy Cog-designed site for a terrible redesign from VML that uses tables for layout, Flash for content and RealPlayer for video. It’s a giant step backward for the Chiefs.” Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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We've got welsh!
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Django | Code | UsingFreeComment
Contributed docs for Django “FreeComments” — i.e. comments that don’t require registration to post (like what you’d want on a typical blog). Useful for those of you building Django blogs (and damn it seems like there are a lot of you!.
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Django Tips: Extending Generic Views
Great write-up by Malcom Tredinnick on one of my favorite new Django tricks: wrapping the generic views in a few lines of custom code. This is great when the generic view almost does what you want, but you’d need to add or or two custom features to it.
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Amazon.com: Pro CSS Techniques
While you’re pre-ordering books, send some royalties my way! My CSS book is set to be released on November 27, although a recent author change could make it slip a bit.
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Amazon.com: Pro Django: Web Development Done Right
Go pre-order Adrian and Jacob’s book.
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The Rorschach Test
How to game the famous (infamous?) Rorschach test. Discovered whist watching Gnarls Barkley’s video fro “Crazy.” You never know when it might come in handy to know that it’s better to say “clown” than “vagina” on Plate II. Just sayin’.
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Photo Booth as Gnarls Barkley Rorschach device
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Nathan Borror: You know where you are, version whatever+1
I’ve loved Nathan’s sites since back in the Playground Blues days, but he’s outdone himself this time. Wow. And besides being beautiful, it’s powered by Django!
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Y Knot (hanging on the Sandbar wall)
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Y Knot (hanging on the Sandbar wall)
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Meesh and Kristen at the Sandbar
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Meesh and Kristen at the Sandbar
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Meesh at La Fiesta Mexicana
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Meesh at La Fiesta Mexicana
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Musician at La Fiesta Mexicana
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Musician at La Fiesta Mexicana
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La Fiesta Mexicana a esqulea de St. John
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La Fiesta Mexicana a esqulea de St. John
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David Ryan
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David Ryan
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Wilson and Laura
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David
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Some people I don't know but the guy's name is Kevin
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Some people I don't know but the guy's name is Kevin
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People I don't know
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People I don't know
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Cheese and crackers
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Cheese and crackers
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Hugh and Laura
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Hugh and Laura
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Tech Gurus Say They’ll ‘Switch from Mac’
eWeek is reporting the “story” of Pilgrm/Gruber/Gray and their blog-based operating system shootout. I’m so sick of this story it’s not even funny. I respect all three of these guys tremendously, but why their discussion of whether Mac or Linux is better is any more important than then ones I have with my co-workers is beyond me.
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Opera announces DS
Opera is definitely becoming the mobile browser. The version of Opera on the Nokia 700 is awesome, Opera Mini is the king of browsers for cell phones, and now they’re coming to your Nintendo DS. Awesome.
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Kansas City Chiefs downgrade to tables
The Chiefs, who are my team and had a nicely-done Happy Cog-designed site a week ago, now have an abomination of a web presence, complete with thousands of nested tables, inline styles, an ugly visual design, and 108 HTML validation errors. The Chiefs’ time machine welcomes you to 1998.
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BOOB WAR CLIMAX! Everybody Loves Power Girl!
As an ass man, I’ve never quite understood what’s so magical about cleavage…but that doesn’t stop this from being totally awesome. Via .sara (thanks!).
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A Django website that took (a lot) more than 20 minutes.
Luke Plant, a key member of the Django community, shows that Django isn’t just for simple little blogs and realistically breaks down the time he spent in the process. None of that 20-minute blog stuff here (seriously, who would post something that like!? :)
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Quicksilver cheat sheet (PDF)
I’m still trying to force myself to use QS. I know how effective it is, but I just can’t get in the habit. Maybe this will help.
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Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with Simply Measured, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my past clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, Django, The Lawrence Journal-World, and the University of Washington.
I’ve authored two books on web and interactive design and spoken at dozens of conferences around the world.
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