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 »
Blogged. Do we need a return to the browser wars? http://tinyurl.com/26nzcg
Dammit. Pwnd by the iphone’s auto correction again!
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. Visit site »
Will Larson has a nice series of posts that explains how to build a Django project that exists at its own URL, as well as in Facebook, as an app. Visit site »
Dave Winer on Amazon’s new SimpleDB, which seems pretty damn awesome. I agree with Dane: it’s absolutely baffling that Amazon is gaining so much mindshare in online development tools (with S3 first, and now this) and companies like Google, Yahoo and Microsoft aren’t releasing any competitors. This feels like it should be Google’s realm, not Amazon’s. Nonetheless, the tools seem great. Visit site »