Monday, 28th September 2009
“That’s maybe a bit too dorky, even for us.”. Astonishingly exciting: Flickr now have machine tag support for OpenStreetMap—tag a photo with osm:way=WAY_ID and Flickr will figure out what OSM feature you are talking about and link to it with a human readable description.
Look at Sony, or Microsoft, or Google, or anyone. They still don't get it. They're still out there talking about chips, or features, or whatever. Or now they're all hot for design. But they think design means making pretty objects. It doesn't. It means making a system of pieces that all work together seamlessly. It's not about calling attention to the technology. It's about making the technology invisible.
Django ponies: Proposals for Django 1.2
I’ve decided to step up my involvement in Django development in the run-up to Django 1.2, so I’m currently going through several years worth of accumulated pony requests figuring out which ones are worth advocating for. I’m also ensuring I have the code to back them up—my innocent AutoEscaping proposal a few years ago resulted in an enormous amount of work by Malcolm and I don’t think he’d appreciate a repeat performance.
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