The Scoop

Update: a bug in the search form pointed out by Joe Weiss has been fixed. Thanks, Joe!
I’ve written before about the applicability of database work to sports, particularly local college and professional teams, and there are signs out there that some news organizations are tackling this previously under-served area. With the NFL draft fast approaching, [...]

The Database of CAR Stories that I maintain on this site is built using the open-source Django Web framework. So it only makes sense that I should also publish the code that makes DOCS run, and now it’s available on github. This likely won’t prove useful to hardcore Django folks, but perhaps CAR people new [...]

First, I got my copy of the Django Book for my birthday, and it’s a great resource written in the straight-forward style that users of the documentation have come to expect. Congrats to Adrian, Jacob and Simon (who contributed a chapter on newforms).
On a related note, Adrian explained a little bit about the origins of [...]

For one of our Django applications at work we received a request to add iCal feeds to accompany the RSS feeds available for each candidate’s page (example here). I first thought about doing this using a hard-coded template, the way described in March on boomby.com. So I did and it worked - the directions are [...]