This Week in Django is a weekly podcast about all things Django.
This week we have a very special guest this week. Paul Bissex, creator of dpaste.com among other things, joined us for an in-depth interview. During the interview he reveals a very special surprise, a new Django book he is writing with two co-authors, Jeff Forcier (bitprophet) and Wes Chun (author of Core Python Programming).
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Show Notes
Big News (0:21)
- Brian Rosner is now the co-host of This Week in Django. Thank you Brian.
Tracking Trunk (1:41)
Community Catchup (3:31)
- StaticGenerator for Django – StaticGenerator is a Python class for Django that makes it easy to create static files for lightning fast performance.
- Simple Plugin Framework – Marty Alchin discusses how to implement a Plugin Framework. The code is quite elegant and a great learning tool on the use of metaclasses.
Paul Bissex Interview (11:19)
We sat down with Paul Bissex, creator of dpaste.com among other things, to discuss his programming background and how came to Django, his current work situation, how dpaste.com came to be, the Django Textmate Bundle, the new Django book he is writing, the new Blog, and his other Community Involvement.- e-scribe – his consultancy
- Python Web Framework Mania
- dpaste.com – the Django Pastebin
- Django Textmate Bundle – If you’re doing Django with Textmate this is a must.
- The New Blog – It looks great and a must subscribe
- The Well – A unique online community since 1985
Post Interview Discussion and Errata (48:49)
- The Definitive Guide to Django – Get it now.
- Practical Django Projects – James Bennett’s forthcoming book
- The Jython Project – Python on the Java Virtual Machine
- PyCon 2007 Podcast – Podcasts from PyCon 2007. Great stuff.
- IronPython – .NET implementation of Python
- PyCon 2008 Django Sprints – Do not miss it!
- PyCon 2008 – Get Registered
Thanks for the kind words about StaticGenerator. It’s certainly not for everything but I think it’s got its own audience.
I went googling for a working title and found “Practical Django Development,” listed as a forthcoming book by Mr Chun here:
http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com/Presenters.aspx?id=141
It should dovetail very nicely with the upcoming “Practical Django Projects” book by James Bennett: since, from the interview, I gather that their book will cover the gap between the absolute noob’s like myself and the Django Book (which seems to be aimed more at people who already have some web-dev experience and need a reference to the framework itself); while the other book will show you how to apply the theory to real world examples.