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Thursday, 19th July 2007

Every mashup attempts to expand until it can do social networking. Those that can't are replaced by those that can.

John Panzer

# 8:26 am / john-panzer, jwz, mashups, socialnetworking

Logic in Templates. I don’t think it would hurt Django to have a bit more support for conditional logic in templates, but I wouldn’t go as far as supporting the ability to call Python functions directly.

# 8:35 am / christopher-lenz, django, logic, python, templates

Wikispaces OpenID Support. You can create new accounts there, but they haven’t hooked up association with existing accounts yet (that’s coming soon).

# 9:23 am / openid, wiki, wikispaces

MOO Stickers. Launched today (party this evening). 90 stickers in a book for a fiver seems very reasonable indeed.

# 12:14 pm / moo, stickers

Personal names around the world. I’ve always felt slightly uncomfortable about firstname/lastname fields in forms. Now I know why.

# 12:54 pm / forms, i18n, internationalisation, richard-ishida

Seasoning Templates. “Designing a template language is a lot like seasoning a dish; there’s a whole range of tastes out there.”

# 6:04 pm / django, jacob-kaplan-moss, templates

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