I always had "other" plans for howiworkdaily, so I'm moving my blog and twitter over to my company identity... Monty Lounge Industries. Although I'm currently employed full-time, montylounge is my own personal "career" brand, if you will. Follow me on twitter at @montylounge while I begin the migration of both my blog and other things. Howiworkdaily still has a few tricks up its sleeve long term.
In my feeble attempt to contribute to Will Larson's reusable Django search solution django-springsteen, I recently offered a light realign/redesign of Will's previous UI, tweaking just his html/css to more clearly present the results.
I released a small reusable app for adding an FAQ section to your site titled django-faq. It may seem a bit boring since it really isn't a complicated solution but I did make sure to include some "reusable app" best practices and even an example project that details how to make use of those practices. It's also hosted by GitHub, my new favorite social distributed source control system. Check out the project.
Eric Holscher is the creator of TestMaker, the automated test maker (hence the name) for your Django projects. On this, the first official TWiD callcast, we discuss his testing and debugging screencasts, how he got into Django, Test Driven Development, and DjangoCon. Go check it out.
If you wanted to know why I've been so quite recently is because I've been hard working on my development, design, and strategy company Monty Lounge Industries, LLC. But somehow the This Week in Django (TWiD) crew convinced ourselves to launch a new TWiD site during the 1.0 release week. Go check out the redesign - this week in django.
Big props go out to Michael Trier and Brian Rosner for implementing the Django side of things. Those guys are just amazing at getting things done.
This month's django-nyc was hosted at Huge Inc and they couldn't have been more hospitable. Thanks to Loren Davie, co-founder of django-nyc, for hooking us up with the new location and for everyone at Huge for putting together a great environment for the meetup. We had food (I think I even saw some hummus somewhere along the amazing spread), drinks (aka beers) and a great presentation space. Oh, and we talked about NewFormsAdmin - including a great intro to nfa from Loren Davie, as well as a special presentation by Brian Rosner who provided a sneak peek presentation of his forthcoming DjangoCon presentation "What's New in NewForms-Admin".
Update: there are no files in SVN. That's a bummer. I'm keeping the post up because maybe it will introduce someone to SlideShowPro and maybe it will also entice the project own to push his files up to SVN for the rest of us to grab.
No, this isn't an official title ("Django Director") or a job opening (I guess it could be). Django-director is an open source project to manage the awesome SlideShowPro flash based image gallery application. I've had clients in need of a simple to use but very nice looking image gallery and SlideShowPro kills those two birds with one stone. SlideShowPro isn't free but it only costs $29. I think you'll be impressed. I just need to check this open source project out myself but I've been plenty happy with SSP so far. (check update above).
"SlideShowPro is a Flash-based slideshow application for presenting your photos and videos online. Available as a component for Flash and gallery extension for Lightroom, SlideShowPro features over 100 customizable parameters to control color, layout, size, and behavior for an endless array of configuration options. Both products were built to meet the demands of professional photographers, as well as web developers looking for a fast, simple utility to create slideshows without coding any ActionScript. "
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