Right after finishing my review on the Django template development book I got contacted again by the Packt folks to do the same for the Learning jQuery 1.3 book. I was most pleased with the request.
Now, this book has 444 pages compared to the 272 pages from Django book. There is much more to teach [...]

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I just read Elf Stenberg’s solution on how to serve static Javascript with reversed URLs in Django, I was going to leave this as a comment but I better explain it here
When developing Django Widgets that require Javascript interaction with the server (Ajax, XHR, etc… ), you want your widget seamlessly deployable and [...]

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Last month I got an email from Packt telling me about their latest book on Django Template development. I was invited to give it a read and see how I liked it.
Now, I’m a lazy and slow reader. But this book was quite an easy read. I liked how fast I went through the pages [...]

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I got a Lenovo S10 some months ago, and like all netbooks it has a 1024x~600 resolution which is fine for most web browgins but it happens to be too short for some applications, one of them being Google Reader.
After installing the right WM, installing the right firefox extensions and settings the right font size. [...]

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Great drawing used by the Nebula team at Nasa to show proudly that they use Django for their development.

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This last week I fonally found some time to improve two important features I missed in Open-selector
The first thing I  hated was havign to make so many HTTP requests to fetch the provider icons, so now Open-selector makes use of CSS sprites to fetch all icons from a single sprite file.
The second feature was to [...]

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This shall be called Version 0.2 .
The cool feature of this is the inline mode, it will be useful to have an OpenID login box in topbars, inline menus or heading sections (they are all the same I think), and the update-as-you-type feature
Use it and let me know what you think

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Whenever I want to display a list of items I’ll need pagination, calculate first page, next page, total pages, current page, previous page, etc.
Although Django comes with pretty good pagination helpers, I’ve found that using the list_detail.object_list generic view hanles this very nicely
So whenever I want to display a list, I will return [...]

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Natural evolution of breasts has lead to this improved version of boob movement

Now, this app has not been approved by Apple, and I dont think it will never be… but hey, nothing stop us from having boobdroids over Iboobs .

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I just added some basic documentation to Open-selector.

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