The Website of Kai Conragan

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1. Introducing Python/Django testing

   Nice summary on basic doctests with Python and Django.

   # 03 Nov., 2008

2. Django inserting and positioning images

   Interesting idea for using Django to manage images and insert them inline in articles, blog posts, etc.

   # 18 Aug., 2008

3. Adding search to a Django site in a snap

   If the existing Django search projects are too heavyweight for you needs, Julien Phalip offers a pretty easy alternative.

   # 18 Aug., 2008

4. Migrating to newforms-admin

   Screencast detailing how to convert a Django project to use Django’s newforms-admin.

   # 23 July, 2008

5. Replacing Django's template language with Jinja2

   Nice overview that examines the flexibility of Django’s loose coupling philosophy.

   # 22 July, 2008

6. Django 1.0 Alpha

   Exciting news. Let the countdown begin.

   # 22 July, 2008

7. Creating a tumblelog with Django

   This is a far more elegant solution than the one I use on the journal portion of my site.

   # 24 June, 2008 | via: Simon Willison

8. The Django Software Foundation

   With a foundation, Django will be able to continue its growth with new assistance from software operations large and small, from one-person outfits to industry leaders such as Google.

   The contributions will help Django leaders bring together core developers from around the world— from Lawrence to Australia or even Germany—to work side by side on details designed to make Django even better, faster.

   Congrats to the Django team. I can’t wait to reap the benefits.

   # 17 June, 2008

9. Django Search

   An easy-to-implement search feature is one of the key missing components in Django. Looks like Jakob Kaplan Moss, one of the originators of Django, is tackling this with the intent of it becoming django.contrib.search. Excellent.

   # 30 March, 2008

10. Code Highlighting In Django

    I need to add a code highlighting feature to this site—it’s actually stopping me from writing a few posts. Saved for the next free weekend.

    # 26 March, 2008

11. Integrating reCAPTCHA with Django

    Bookmarking for future reference

    # 19 March, 2008 | via: Simon Willison

12. Rails is the Best Thing That Ever Happened to Python

    Argument that Rails, by highlighting the benefits of using MVC frameworks and scripting languages, has helped Python in terms of overall usage. He doesn’t provide any real proof of this idea, and his examples are anecdotal at best, but I have to agree with his overall point. Case in point: I came to Python through Django.

    # 04 March, 2008

13. Interview: Adrian Holovaty

    Excellent interview about the newly launched Everyblock with mastermind Adrian Holovaty. It’s amazing that more than half of the data available on Everyblock is obtained by scraping HTML and not through formal APIs.

    # 15 Feb., 2008

14. Everyblock

    I’ve been looking forward to this since it was announced last year. I’ve consistently been impressed by the work Adrian has put out over the past few years. He has a way of applying technology in a way I can only describe as human. Wilson Miner is one of my favorite designers on the web. When I heard the two of them were teaming up, I knew Everyblock would be something special.

    Everyblock is currently only available in Chicago, New York and, fortunately for me, San Francisco. But more is certainly coming. Poynter has an interview up with Adrian Holovaty and Daniel X. O’Neil posts some personal thoughts on the project.

    # 24 Jan., 2008