Hard to argue with that.
Carsonified’s four-day Django gem has launched. It’s a little tool that lets you easily post a single tweet to multiple Twitter accounts. Although it’s not something I particularly need (I only use one Twitter account), it’s a nice example of how quickly a team can make something cool with Django, and it’s got a freaking wonderful illustrated design, to boot. Congrats, Carsonified! Visit site »
Difference between Seattle and Kansas City: In KC, the rain goes sideways.
Webmonkey has jumped on the Django bandwagon with this nice tutorial on how to get up and running with the Python-based web application framework. Visit site »
Another Mac SVN client. This one, at a glance, looks more interesting than Versions, to me. Visit site »
The jackass (or asses) that run this site have pirated my chapter of Web Standards Creatvitiy, a book I co-authored for Friends of ED, and published it in their blog as their very own. From what I can tell, their entire blog is made up of articles they didn’t write. What a bunch of assholes. Visit site »
Happy Canada Day to all my awesome Canuck friends. And happy birthday @katidid!
October 8th, 2008–October 10th, 2008 in London, England
Congrats to my friends at EveryBlock, who have launched a couple new cities, as well as some new functionality. Good stuff. Visit site »
My buddy Mel Kirk interviews online community guru Tara Hunt — who, for the record, I finally got to hang out with a few months ago in San Francisco and found to be downright awesome. Visit site »
Whoever said that has clearly never been anywhere else.
I’ll be heading over to London, my favorite city in the world (so far, anyway), to give a full-day workshop on building a custom CMS using Django. The workshop is being put on my the awesome folks at Carsonified, and you can register right now, if you like! Having been to several Carsonified events, I can say with a great deal of certainty that no one out there runs conferences and workshops more smoothly than this crew. Should be a great day.
I will definitely blog at more length about this event in the near future, but for now, head over to the Carson Workshops site and check it out. Visit site »
My good friends at Carsonified are building a web app in a week, and live-blogging the process. Ryan says:
Keir recently came up with a really fun web app idea … so the whole team is taking a week off to build it. It’s going to be called ‘Matt’ and it’ll be built in Django on a popular API, include a desktop AIR app, and will be hosted on an elastic computing cloud (probably Flexiscale, but yet to be determined).
Sounds like fun. Should be entertaining to watch the blog as they do this. Good luck, guys! Visit site »
I’ll keep this one short. Michelle and I have left our digs in Seattle and are moving ourselves into an apartment in Kansas City, Missouri this afternoon. Meesh and ...
supaman that ho!
If you haven’t heard: @meeshku and I are moving back to Kansas City this weekend to tend to a personal matter. Hope to be back to SEA soon!
Even ignoring all the charitable work he’s done and focusing solely on his tenure at Microsoft, it’s hard to deny that Bill Gates has had an incredible career full of hit products. People love to make light of the misses (Vista, BOB, Windows ME, Zune) and ignore some of the truly outstanding products the company has put out under Gates’ watch (XBox, Visual Basic, Windows Mobile, Microsoft Mouse, Windows Media Center). Love him or hate him, it’s hard to deny his impact. So long, Bill. The industry will definitely miss you being a part on a day-to-day basis. Visit site »
In last night’s NBA draft, a record-tying five players from a single school were drafted when my Kansas Jayhawks’ Brandon Rush, Darrell Arthur, Mario Chalmers, Darnell Jackson, and Sasha Kaun were all selected by the league. Compare that to North Carolina and Duke who had, um, none. Just sayin’.
The Jayhawks were promptly treated like the school slut, passed from team to team in a fury of trades. All five KU players were dealt at least once, and Arthur was traded three times! Visit site »
Sounds like a good gig for the right person! Visit site »
A good discussion ensures after Mike asks a simple question: for news organizations, which is better, a blog CMS or an enterprise CMS? My answer? They both suck. Visit site »
Hilarious video presentation by Josh Weinberg. If you’ve ever had to work in technical support, you’ll love this. Visit site »
Definitely fairly sore after doing both the initial test and first day of the 100 pushups workout yesterday.
OH: Why are you pulling shit out of my ass?! — @mrsasher
I bought my momma a Benz, and bought my Boo-Boo a Jag / And now I’m rollin in a nine-trizzay El Do-Rad