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.
Jeff Croft is a designer, author, conference speaker, programmer, web strategist, and well, a jack of all trades. He was one of the initial bloggers I followed when first digging into Django, and still follow to this day. He's apt at creating controversial blog posts, drawing both critique and praise for his musings. And he also is a great resource in blogging about tips and tricks regarding Django and design. After reading his latest post (not this one) I knew it would be a great time to have Jeff on and talk Django, design, mobile, djangocon, and a few other things. It runs about 30 minutes.
One of the reusable apps I see consistently mentioned in the djangosphere is basic-apps. The man behind the multi-app solution (blog, people, movies, books, profiles, music, places remarks, media, and inlines) is Nathan Borror, Interactive Art Director for LJWorld in Lawrence, Kansas — which just so happens to be the home where django was born. He's also responsible for the EveryBlock iconography, as well as a writing an excellent blog playgroundblues.com. We talked basic-apps, tumblog, blogging well, personal blogs, navigation, usability, minimalism, iconography, django and design, iphone, djangocon, django-nyc, python-nyc, django sprints, open sourcing your code, his flash mp3 player, and music. It's about 30 minutes long, enjoy!
As I posted early this AM, Jacob Kaplan-Moss teased us with the DjangoCon 2008 logo over on Pownce. I've emailed once with Jacob in the past so I figured I'd give him a shout to see if he was interested in talking about the conference during lunch. Luckily for me he was, and I couldn't have been happier to have Jacob on the "show" to discuss some details. We talked DjangoCon and even the Django 1.0 release party. We start with a quick introduction, and then get right into DjangoCon. It runs 8mins and 33 seconds.
This week's callcast features the seemingly always busy, and always productive Eric Florenzano. Eric is a cool cat who is very active in the django community. After recently graduating from Iowa State University, Eric is soon off to Japan for a 2 week holiday and then on to San Francisco for his new full-time position as Software Engineer at MochiMedia. He's currently working on django source code ticket #6095 - adding the ability to manually create M2M intermediary models. We talked django, reusable apps, git, model inheritance, django for noobs, and well... a lot of stuff actually. As always, I'm looking for feedback on these callcasts - tips and suggestions are always welcome. Follow the jump to read more...
"Yeah, a lot of people have been writing all these articles about FriendFeed killing service A or service B. But, honestly, from the beginning, we’ve really been about sort of making the services you already use more useful."
Benjamin Golub is the one man show behind tweet2tweet, rssmeme, and most recently fftogo (friendfeed to go). Interestingly enough Ben wrote all these apps with python and django. Maybe even more interesting is that two of the three apps run on Google App Engine(GAE).
Kevin is a husband, father, web strategist, solution developer, information designer, researcher, and enjoys writing. He also enjoys a good cup of tea — learn more.
