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Measuring the Django Community: The Django community in 2012
Jacob writes about the size of the Django community in 2012. It’s pretty amazing how the little framework built in Lawrence, KS by some of the best friends and co-workers I’ve ever had has exploded in the past few years. I remember vividly being in that basement in Lawrence when Google announced App Engine and we all sat, dumbfounded and beaming with pride that it was based on Django. Later, we all were so stoked when Pownce launched on Django, because we felt like there was finally a big “app” (versus “site”) that ran on Django. Today, as Jacob writes, “the high-profile uses of Django read like a Who’s Who of the Internet. Check this list out: AMD, Canonical, Discovery, Disqus, HP, IBM, Instagram, Intel, Lexis-Nexis, the Library of Congress, Mozilla, NASA, National Geographic, the New York Times, Orbitz, PBS, Pinterest, Rdio, VMWare, Walt Disney, and the Washington Post. Not bad for a few nerds hacking in a basement in Lawrence, Kansas, eh?” Not bad at all. Those days in the basement were special, indeed.
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Jacob and Scott, AsianPoses.com
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Jacob and Scott
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss: It’s time for a change
My buddies Jacob and Frank Wiles have started a new kind of Django company: they’re focusing on supporting and maintaining your apps after you’ve written them. We all know Django makes writing apps very easy, but if you have some success, you might find yourself stuck on scaling, optimization, obscure bugs, and the like. Jacob and Frank want to be your go-to experts on these issues. Good idea.
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DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Adrian Holovaty & Jacob Kaplan-Moss
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.
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Django in Linux Magazine
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. :)
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Django’s Jacob Kaplan-Moss interviewed on the TWiT network
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.
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Sailing on…
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!
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Google Charts template tags for Django
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.
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James, Joseph, and Jacob
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The Django Book: now updated with the final copy
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.
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The Django Book is done
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.
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Django Master Class
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.
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Fix your iPhone’s notes app: Die, Marker Felt, Die!
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.
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss: Dear Adobe…
“Dear Adobe — Acrobat (Reader) sucks gigantic mountain-goat testicles.” Kinda hard to argue with that.
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It works, bitches.
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It works, bitches.
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PBS MediaShift: Web Focus Leads Newspapers to Hire Programmers for Editorial Staff
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.
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Jacob’s advanced Django tutorial from PyCon
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!
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Two new Django sites, both with source available
Back in June of 2006, I created LOST-theories.com, one of my first Django-powered sites. Because it seemed like it might be useful for people who were trying to learn Django, I released the source code for the site — not so much for people to take and use directly, but so people would be able to see how a Django site was built, from the ground up. I had no idea it would be so popular. I still get e-mails every week from people thanking me for giving them a complete example.
But I always felt a little sketchy about it. I’m not a great programmer by any means, and I was even worse then. If I were re-doing LOST-theories.com today, a lot of the code would be different. I’ve thought about taking the code offline for that reason. But, I’ve left it, because it seems like people really, really needed some full-site examples of Django code.
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CheeseRater: Rate Python packages
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!
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JKM, Nathan, and Joseph
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JKM, Nathan, and Joseph
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss at the 'Neck
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Jacob Kaplan-Moss at the 'Neck
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Even the corporate suits have come to our lair to play with the Wii.
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jacobian.org : How the news breaks
Ever wonder how the election data gets from the Secretary of State to the crawl at the bottom of your TV screen. Well, at least if you’re in Lawrence, the process may not be as elegant as you’d imagine. Jacob outlines last night’s digital baling twine and duct tape. Kind of gross and kind of novel at the same time. Definitely funny, either way.
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The Django Book: now online
Jacob and Adrian have put up the first couple of chapters of The Django Book, their upcoming reference on the web framework. Apress will be publishing the book in print, but it’s free online. While you’re there, check out the commenting system — totally badass.
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Jacob, about to head home.
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Jacob, about to head home.
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iTunes “L337” Edition on Flickr
Jacob has found that the all-uppercase capitalization in the source menu of iTunes is actually not the worst thing that can happen!
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Man on the street
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Man on the street
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jacobian.org : Pronouncement
In light of Guido’s pronouncement, Django lead dev Jacob Kaplan-Moss spekas on tech community holy wars, and especially how they relate to his view of marketing Django. Great post.
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Jacob and Sera
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Amazon.com: Pro Django: Web Development Done Right
Go pre-order Adrian and Jacob’s book.
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Jacob cracking up
Jeff Croft
I’m a digital product designer and developer in Seattle, WA. I currently work with nGen Works, and recently co-founded Lendle, a Kindle book sharing service.
Some of my clients include Facebook, Microsoft, Yahoo!, Copious, The New York Review of Books, 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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