[caption id=“attachment_1094” align=“alignleft” width=“243” caption=“Django 1.2 E-Commerce”][/caption] Just received my complimentary copy of the book “Django 1.2 E-Commerce" from Packt Publishing! From the book’s overview page: Build all the components for an e-commerce store, from product catalog to shopping cart to checkout processor Build a high quality e-commerce site quickly and start making money All the examples in the book will run smoothly for all the versions of Django 1.

Sunday I was lucky enough to have the chance of attending a book reading (well, a passage actually) by Cory Doctorow! The event took place at Flyleaf Books right here in Chapel Hill, a charming independent book store that will most definitely see me and my kids more often from now on (plus, they’re right next to Foster’s Market and Flying Burrito)! Cory came across as a very humble, down to earth kind of guy and it didn’t take long for the crowed to feel right at home.

[caption id=“attachment_1038” align=“alignleft” width=“117” caption=“Django”][/caption] I have just released the Django Developer Kit 1.2.1 appliance to match with the release of Django 1.2.1! Check this page for more information about this release! There are several ways for you to play with the Django Developer Kit appliance, so just head on down to the download page and pick from the following image types: x86 Amazon Machine Image (EC2) x86 VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance x86 VMware (R) ESX Server Virtual Appliance OVF 0.

[caption id=“attachment_1080” align=“alignleft” width=“152” caption=“The Maze Runner by James Dashner”][/caption] This past March I started a new routine to my Sunday mornings: shortly after breakfast with the kids, I flip my laptop open and start reading the Books section of the NY Times online. I wanted to get the real deal, dead tree “version” of it for quite some time, but at USD$6 just for the Sunday paper I figured that reading it online would have to do it.

Here’s what happened this week:  Should you go to college straight out of high school? Over the weekend I came across an interesting article in the New York Timescalled “Plan B: Skip College“. According to the Department of Education, “no more than half of those who began a four-year[…] Django Developer Kit 1.2 I’m really excited to announce the release of my Django Developer Kit 1.2! Setting up a Django-based project in the appliance is a piece of cake!

E aí pessoal, tudo bem? Sei que faz muito tempo que não escrevo nada aqui no blog, mas é que para variar, estou metido em vários projetos diferentes e o tempo está curtíssimo! O meu trabalho também tem me mantido muito ocupado… e minhas filhas já estão me deixando de cabelo branco… e… Bem, chega de choro… só passei aqui para dizer que apesar de não estar atualizando este blog aqui, eu continuo escrevendo em inglês no meu outro blog: Journal of an Open Sourcee

[caption id="" align=“alignleft” width=“240” caption=“Can Money Buy Your Productivity?"][/caption] In True Motivation, my friend Vinny pointed to a very interesting video by Dan Pink, “author of several provocative, bestselling books about the changing world of work.“ This video talks about how research has come up with key factors to make people happier, successful and fulfilled: Autonomy, Mastery and Purpose! Ok, this shouldn’t really shock people, but how about this nice little nugget: when it comes down to tasks that require cognitive skills, offering more money as an incentive does not yield good results!