February 15th, 2010 | by Derek Willis | published in django
Over the weekend I was able to make some upgrades to Fumblerooski (the off-season being a good time for that), and to do so I took advantage of some of the new features in Django‘s development version (with the 1.2 release being just around the corner). (Yes, I know I shouldn’t be running beta software [...]
January 24th, 2010 | by Derek Willis | published in django, Mapping, Python
Update: Simon has updated his library to make it easy to reverse the order of coordinates. Thanks! For a “15-minute project“, Simon Willison’s geocoders library is pretty handy if you’re doing geocoding with Python. It offers a common interface to the geocoding services provided by Google, Yahoo and other sources. When we were looking at [...]
November 25th, 2009 | by Derek Willis | published in django, Python
I haven’t mentioned Fumblerooski in awhile, but rest assured that work continues, especially during college football season. I’ve added more coaching information (still a long ways to go on that, though) and will be unveiling player rankings soon. But the biggest thing I’ve done lately has nothing to do with new features. Instead, as I’ve [...]
March 18th, 2009 | by Derek Willis | published in django
Thanks to the tireless efforts of Rich Leland, there’s now a django-district user group and mail list. Django users in the DC-area, please sign up and participate as we start to set a schedule for meetings and other events. Rich’s employer, Discovery Communications in Silver Spring, MD, will be hosting group meetings, which is fantastic [...]
February 24th, 2009 | by Derek Willis | published in django
Last Tuesday, my colleague Andrei Scheinkman and I were invited to talk about one of our projects at The Times, Represent, before a group of New York City-area Django developers. Unlike similar user groups that are more broadly centered on Python, this collection (about 25-30 people attended) were focused on using Django, so it was [...]