[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.

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!

[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!

[caption id=“attachment_1038” align=“alignleft” width=“117” caption=“Django”][/caption] 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! Some of the Django modules included are: PIL=1.1.7-1-1 PyYAML=3.05-1-1 Pygments=1.3.1-1-1 bzr=2.0.0-1-1 bzrtools=2.0.1-1-1 cElementTree=1.0.5-1-1 coverage:source=3.3.1-2[] django-ajax-selects:source=r24_patched-2[] django-authopenid:source=0.9.6-1[] django-authority:source=0.4-1[] django-cache-memcached=1.2-1-1[is: x86] django-contact-form=r61-1-1[is: x86] django-db-mysql=1.2-1-1 django-db-sqlite3=1.2-1-1[is: x86] django-evolution=r165-1-1[is: x86] django-favorites=b145949-1-1[is: x86] django-filter=0.5.0-1-1[is: x86] django-notification=0.1.5-1-1[is: x86] django-pagination=1.0.5-1-1[is: x86] django-piston=0.2.2-1-1[is: x86] django-profile=r452-1-1[is: x86] django-ratings=9e32d33-1-1[is: x86] django-sorting=0.

[caption id="" align=“aligncenter” width=“286” caption=“Week in Review”][/caption] Here’s what happened this week:  What’s new with Radio Tray? http://www.ogmaciel.com/?p=1016Radio Tray, your favorite light weight online radio streaming application, has gone under some more development churn since its last release. Namely, there is now a dbus interface to allow other applications to interact with it! When the movie is better than the book Over this past weekend I found just enough time to finish reading Band of Brothers by Stephen E.

I’m really excited to announce the release of my Django Developer Kit 1.2 RC1! The highlights for this release include the first Release Candidate for the upcoming Django 1.2, as well as a switch of the underlying platform, from CentOS to rPath Linux 2. All kinks have been worked out and setting up a Django-based project in the appliance is a piece of cake! Some of the Django modules included are:

Got a couple of interesting bits for you today, starting with some really great news from the Hamster Project, a time tracking application. My friend Tom wrote about his recent work decoupling the communication layer from the client and the back-end, which will now be handled by dbus. What that really means is that it will be easier to script against hamster and tap into the data that it captures. Here’s a simple code sample from Tom’s page:

[caption id="" align=“alignright” width=“240” caption=“Mercurial is the bee’s knees”][/caption] Anyone who has ever added a project to BitBucket already knows what Mercurial is, but for those who have never heard about it, “it is a free, distributed source control managemt tool that can efficiently handle projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface.” In other words, in the world of Distributed Version Control (Systems), or DVCS or short, Mercurial is the bee’s knees!

I’ll make it quick so I can go back to watching TV: Announcing my first attempt at a generic Django Developer Kit, a CentOS (powered by rPath's conary) based software appliance with all you'd need to run a Django project. [caption id=“attachment_829” align=“aligncenter” width=“300” caption=“Django Developer Kit Appliance”][/caption] The current images are built on the development stage, which means it includes the very latest Django 1.2 code line straight from the subversion repository.

Just wanted to update everyone who showed interest in the new release of GNOME Developer Kit I announced yesterday. Based on some preliminary statistics I collected in the (less than) last 24 hours, it seems that the VMware image type got the most download, followed closely by the installable ISO format. I guess that was due to VirtualBox being able to use *.vmdk files and some people opting for the free virtualization tool.