One of my tasks this summer was to learn a bit more about the GIS branch of Django, which is now in trunk as a contrib app thanks to the hard work of Justin Bronn, Travis Pinney and Co. Although there are many folks in the CAR community who are quite proficient at mapping technologies, [...]
Be sure to catch Caspio’s David Milliron’s responses at Mindy’s site.
Mindy asks for some bullet points on why news organizations would do better to not use Caspio for their Web database needs. Feel free to add on:
SEO. If you like building databases that are not indexed by Google and other search engines, then Caspio’s right [...]
For reference purposes, you may want to study this old commercial for Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups. Recommended, but not necessary, is this definition.
It’s August, which means that college football is just around the corner. College football is why I don’t volunteer to teach any classes in the fall. It’s why I occasionally compensate my better [...]
My friend Dave Gulliver had a fascinating piece in his paper on Sunday about the birth of quadruplets in a Sarasota hospital. It’s a great story, but what makes it greater is that it was written by somebody with a certain amount of expertise on the subject of difficult premature multiple births. I hope Dave [...]
The first-ever DjangoCon will be held Sept. 6-7 at the Googleplex in Mountain View, Calif. The preliminary program looks incredible, and I’m sad to be missing it. My summer travels have been plenty and another West Coast trip, especially over a weekend, is a bit too much (there’s also the nagging point that I’d have [...]
