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Practical Django Projects

Chromodromic writes "Apress's newest Django offering, Practical Django Projects by James Bennett, weighs in lightly at 224 pages of actual tutorial content, but trust me, they're dense pages. Filled with pragmatic examples which directly address the kinds of development issues you will encounter when first starting out with Django, this book makes an important addition to the aspiring Django developer's reference shelf. In particular, the book's emphasis on demonstrating best practices while building complete projects does an excellent job of accelerating an understanding of Django's most powerful features — in a realistic, pragmatic setting — and which a developer will be able to leverage in very short order." Read below for the rest of Greg's review.

Django 1.0 alpha

In accordance with the Django 1.0 release roadmap, tonight we've released the first "alpha" testing version of Django 1.0. This release includes all of the major features due for inclusion in the final Django 1.0, though some lower-priority items are still scheduled to be included before the 1.0 feature freeze, which will occur with the first beta release next month.

Practical Jetpack Available "Soon"

Ifandbut was one of several readers to point out the arrival in Oshkosh of the first practical jetpack. It was invented by a New Zealander Glenn Martin, who has been working on the idea for 27 years. He plans to sell the gizmos for somewhere in the neighborhood of $100K. While previous attempts at jetpacks have flown for at most a couple of minutes, Mr. Martin's invention can stay aloft for half an hour. Both "practical" and "jetpack" may need quotation marks, however: The device is huge and it's incredibly noisy. And, "It is also not, to put it bluntly, a jet. 'If you're very pedantic,"' Mr. Martin acknowledged, a gasoline-powered piston engine runs the large rotors. Jet Skis, he pointed out, are not jets, and the atmospheric jet stream is not created by engines.

How To Install Django On Debian Etch (Apache2/mod_python)

HowtoForge: "This tutorial explains how to install Django on a Debian Etch server. Django is a web framework that allows to develop Python web applications quickly with as much automation as possible.

Sentilla Labs Lets Java Developers Post Projects

Sentilla, a leading supplier of pervasive computing solutions, has brought online a new community website known as Sentilla Labs at http://labs.sentilla.com. Sentilla Labs showcases projects developed and deployed by users of Sentilla's software technology. Projects include code and illustrations to show developers how easy it is to quickly transform good ideas into an array of useful applications that can be deployed immediately.

JCPenney Launches Solar and Wind Power Projects

(Prudent Press Agency)---PLANO, Texas--Demonstrating its commitment to adopting renewable power sources that deliver both environmental and business benefits, J. C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP) today announced plans for solar and wind power projects that will supply electricity to 10 stores and one distribution center. The pilot projects represent the next step for JCPenney in its efforts to leverage new technologies and engage its 155,000 Associates in innovative energy programs. In conjunction with these initiatives, JCPenney also announced plans to obtain ENERGY STAR certification for at least 200 stores.

Final Days For Hackontest Selection of Projects

maemst writes "The project selection phase of the Google-sponsored 24-hour programming contest Hackontest ends in two days. Until today, almost a thousand persons voted for new features in 57 open source projects. Currently sK1, TYPO3 and OpenLieroX, phpMyAdmin and Inkscape are on the top list. However, only the developers of three of them may participate in the competition on September 24/25, 2008 in Zurich, Switzerland. code_swarm animations of the top five projects show how previous development has evolved so far."

Digiglass team up with Kevin Todd for a range of Art for Architecture projects

Digiglass has teamed up with Kevin Todd for a range of Art for Architecture projects. Kevin Todd has experience with a wide range of art-for-architecture projects in Australia and overseas.

US Department Of Energy Joint Genome Institute Announces New Genome Sequencing Projects

Walnut Creek, CA - In the continuing effort to tap the vast, unexplored reaches of the earth's microbial and plant domains for bioenergy and environmental applications, the DOE Joint Genome Institute (DOE JGI) has announced its latest portfolio of DNA sequencing projects that it will undertake in the coming year. The 44 projects, culled from nearly 150 proposals received through the Community Sequencing Program (CSP), represent over 60 billion nucleotides of data to be generated through this biodiversity sampling campaign—roughly the equivalent of 20 human genomes.

Orbitz Paves the Way to Enterprise Open-Source Contributions

"On Monday, Orbitz Worldwide plans to announce the creation and release of two open-source projects, Extremely Reusable Monitoring API (ERMA) and Graphite. Though there were hints of these projects at JavaOne earlier this year, Monday's announcement will add significant context to the work Orbitz has done to create two highly compelling open-source projects, whose applicability extends far beyond the travel industry.

A Year of GPLv3

javipas writes "GPLv3 and LGPLv3 were released one year ago, on 29 June 2007. Palamida, who tracks Open Source projects, has made a study of the current situation of these licenses along with AGPLv3, which was released later, in November. The number of projects that have made the transition to these licenses has grown over the last months, and it seems than AGPLv3 has captured a great interest lately. Black Duck Software, a company that tracks Open Source projects too, has made its own study with similar results, and although GPLv3 and its variants have a good adoption rate, the interviews published on the Palamida site (Stallman, Chris Di Bona) show that the acceptance of GPLv3 has still a long way to walk."

Intergraph Introduces New Medium-Format Digital Aerial Camera

Intergraph today introduced the RMK DT, a new medium-format digital aerial camera designed to replace film-based technology for smaller mapping and remote sensing projects and for high resolution engineering projects. A new addition to Intergraph's Z/I Imaging product suite, the camera will be ideal for film camera owners seeking an entry into the digital acquisition arena and for organizations that wish to supplement their existing digital cameras with a versatile system for smaller projects.

Discussing Java code quality and Enerjy Software - Vendor Webcast

This Videocast discusses methods for monitoring and improving the quality of Java code. Discover how attitudes have evolved towards "quality driven" development and explore how to measure the quality of open-source Java projects. Learn how metrics and combinations of metrics can serve as predictors for isolating Java code bugs. Explore how an Eclipse plug-in can be used to effectively compare Java code with open source projects. Gain insight into various Java code quality initiatives which are being designed to enhance the quality of software projects.

Intel acquires UK-based Linux lab OpenedHand

UK Linux lab OpenedHand has been acquired by Intel. The OpenedHand team will become part of the Intel Open Source Technology Centre and will focus on development of the Moblin Software Platform, the optimised software stack for Intel Atom processors. Intel will continue supporting open source projects currently led by OpenedHand such as Clutter and Matchbox projects, and in most cases, will accelerate these projects as they become an integral part of Moblin.

FSFE welcomes KDE's adoption of the Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA)

FSFE welcomes KDE's adoption of the Fiduciary Licence Agreement (FLA) Free Software Foundation Europe welcomes the adoption of the Fiduciary Licence Agreement by the K Desktop Environment project. The FLA is a copyright assignment that allows Free Software projects to assign their copyright to single organisation or person. This enables projects to ensure their legal maintainability, including important issues such as preserving the ability to re-license and certainty to have sufficient rights to enforce licences in court. "We see the adoption of the FLA by KDE as a positive and important milestone in the maturity of the Free Software community," says Georg Greve, president of Free Software Foundation Europe. "The FLA was designed to help projects increase the legal maintainability of their software to ensure long-term protection and reli

Social Work for Robots

Jon Rubin's work "explores the social dynamics of public spaces and the lives of ordinary individuals." Often working in collaboration with other artists, institutions, and members of the general public, his projects have included setting up a gallery that exhibits only information about the neighborhood's inhabitants, broadcasting an office's telephone conversations through a talking piano, producing a cable access variety show at a senior center, and a variety of fake businesses that traded on interaction and the art of conversation. The artist's two most recent projects offer a glimpse into the delicate balance of precision and irony that render his work so poignant. Earlier this month, at Los Angeles' Machine Project, Rubin's A Practical Demonstration was "an exercise in suspended orbits, suspended disbelief, and circular group format

How To Fix the Poor Usability of Free Software

flosofl writes "Matthew Paul Thomas has an entry on his blog called Why Free Software Has Poor Usability, And How To Improve It. While this advice is helpful and may indeed lead to improvements in many open source programs, the guidelines may be much more difficult for smaller projects. From the entry, 'Free Software has a long and healthy tradition of "show me the code." But when someone points out a usability issue, this tradition turns into "patches welcome," which is unhelpful since most designers aren't programmers. And it's not obvious how else usability specialists should help out.'" Thomas has been developing the ideas in this essay for years. The critique is comprehensive, listing 15 challenges in the way software projects, and in particular free software projects, are structured, with suggestions for improving each one.

OOXML projects bolster Microsoft's interoperability efforts

Microsoft on Monday unveiled projects to improve data portability between Office 2007 and other document file formats, including the design of a new translator for exchanging OOXML (Office Open XML) and HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) documents.

Juneau Projects Select Local Artist as the Winner for This Yearâ?"s CUBE Open.

CUBE is proud to be hosting its second open submission exhibition from the 2nd August to the 6th September. Juneau Projects along with Lucienne Cole and Kwong Lee (director Castlefield gallery) had a tough job choosing from more than 100 applicants. Fourteen artists were selected for this year’s exhibition; the overall winner is local artist Andrea Brooker who creates brightly coloured signs that aim to highlight our awareness of social conditioning.

Astronomy projects hit by 80m cuts

An £80 million hole in funding for physics and astronomy was closed yesterday with the decision to cut or reduce involvement in a range of national and international projects.

NCSoft Announces Three New Projects

Three new projects have been announced by NCSoft at the company's 'Media Day 2008' from its HQ in Seoul...

Pricing projects is always hard

One of the most common questions I get from people wanting to become freelance Web designers is how do I set a price? It's a hard question to answer, but I found an interesting article from GoMediaZine written last fall that talks about some of the standard problems designers have when deciding how to charge. A designers guide to pricing has some things in it I don't agree with - such as only using contracts for "big" projects (if you agree with them, you should read some of the horror stories where people got stuck holding the bag when they didn't have a contract on a "little" project). But it does cover some essentials like how to pitch a project and invoicing and so on.

Numerous nanotechnology projects among latest European Research Council grant awards

Indian workshop on 'Medical and Pharmaceutical Nanotechnology' - Latest developments, practical considerations and applications

Bungie has three new projects on the go

It seems there are two other new projects on the go at Bungie as well as the mysterious, still not properly announced, new Halo game. However, we shouldn't get too excited just yet as big announcements about them are still some time away.

New genome sequencing projects announced

Washington -- The U.S. Department of Energy's Joint Genome Institute has announced its 2009 sequencing projects, including pine trees and duck weed.

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