Matt Waite (of the St. Petersburg Times) is joining up with Derek Willis, Aron Pilhofer and Brian Hamman of the New York Times, Chase Davis of the Houston Chronicle and Ben Welsh of the Los Angeles Times to put on a Django training session for journalists. This is a freaking great idea, with a freaking great lineup of guys behind it. Anyone who is remotely interested in database journalism should be there. Matt says:
A group of us who believe data-driven web development is an important part of the future of news are teaming up to teach the basics of Django in eight classes spread out over two-and-a-half days. Are you going to walk out and create EveryBlock? No way in hell. But you will learn the basics of a simple Django application — from setting up your app to building your models to writing views to building templates and displaying your data. Visit site »
KU redesigned its homepage, and it’s a bit of an abomination. Really too bad, because while the previous one did have a few issues, it was overall clean, elegant, and well put together (you can still see the general style of the previous design on the second-level pages). Visit site »
This conference just so happens to be in Seattle, on my birthday. So, if any of you geeks are interested in scalability, come up to the S-E-A and we’ll party. Visit site »
Great piece by Brian over at the Blue Flavor blog. As he explains, edge cases aren’t usually presented because someone has a serious concern over the viability of an idea, but are rather a result of ulterior motives — and, they tend to totally deflate inspiration and creativity. Visit site »