I “Hello World’d” in Rails. First impressions? GOD DAMN THAT’S A LOT OF FILES. GIVE ME MY DISK SPACE BACK!
Just ran a command I never thought I’d run: “sudo gem update rails”. Darkside, here I come.
Testing django-debug-toolbar. Verdict? Badass.
Baby site for my new nephew! Sweet. Visit site »
Congrats to my buddy Inman for his awesome little web stats app making it to three years old, in the face of some really heavy competition from some company called “Google,” who’s product comes in a the low low price of “free,” whereas Mint costs something. I think this is a real win for design. Analytics these days has a very decent design, but Mint is really filling that niche for people who truly care about design and aesthetics. Here’s to (at least) three more years! Visit site »
Moderated by Adrian Holovaty, panelists Matt Waite (St. Petersberg Times), Maura Chace (Atlanta Journal-Constitution), Matt Croydon (Lawrence Journal-World), and Ben Welsh (Los Angeles Times) discuss Django and journalism at DjangoCon. Really good stuff here. The discussion ranges from what’s great and not-so-great about Django in a newsroom to the general decline of the newspaper industry to how to get the “pointy-haired bosses” at traditional media organizations to buy into something other than the “pageviews equals dollars” worldview that is helping to destroy serious journalism in favor of photos of Lindsey Lohan. Really good talk. Visit site »
I’ve recently had the pleasure of hanging out with Eric a few times, and I’ve gotta say: he one cool dude. Super nice, super chill, and super smart. Here, he talks with Kevin Fricovsky about several things Django, including his awesome work in Django testing and debugging and his new day job at World Online in Lawrence (for the sake of disclosure, Eric was not at World Online when I was). Good stuff. Visit site »