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Sunday, 16th December 2007

Chapter 7: Form Processing. The chapter on newforms I contributed to “The Definitive Guide to Django” is now online, along with the rest of the published book.

# 9:44 pm / django, django-book, newforms, python, writing

Don't EVER make the mistake that you can design something better than what you get from ruthless massively parallel trial-and-error with a feedback cycle. That's giving your intelligence much too much credit.

Linus Torvalds

# 9:53 pm / evolution, linus-torvalds, linux, open-source, programming

To get a better future, not only do we need a return to "the browser wars", we need to applaud and use the hell out of "non-standard" features until such time as there's a standard to cover equivalent functionality. Non-standard features are the future, and suggesting that they are somehow "bad" is to work against your own self-interest.

Alex Russell

# 11:33 pm / alex-russell, browserwars, css, standards, w3c

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