Quoth the Django blog:

Gustavo Picón has open-sourced Feedjack, A Django+Python-powered feed aggregator. It’s software you can use to make ‘planet’ sites.

With all the development going on, it’s always good to see frameworks actually getting used somewhere.

Another user comments on his Django experiences:

I needed to write a small web application for my wife’s cousin, so I thought, why not try something new for this? I decided to give Django a try and I am not disappointed.

He says the installation was a snap and that he is generally pleased with the framework. Although, I’m sure having some previous Zope/Plone experience helped a lot.

Quoth James Tauber (of Python templates fame):

Many people, when first finding out about Google Web Toolkit, wonder “why can’t I use Python instead of Java?”. pyjamas is designed to make that possible. And we’re drawing heavily from Google’s work.

Pyjamas is still “in its very early stages” but people are encouraged to check out the SVN repos.

Buzhug is “a pure-Python database engine, using a Pythonic, no-SQL syntax.”

Tim Golden’s Python Stuff is a list of helpful links that he has compiled, mostly having to do with using Python on Win32.

Via: Nikos Kouremenos

Yep, I’m still around. Just took a break for the holiday weekend. Regular posting will resume this week.

Kevin Dangoor points out that the new TurboGears resdesign is live. Unfortunately it looks like the stylesheets are all wonky for a lot of people… including me.

I needed some portable storage for my mp3s, so I ordered an AMS Venus DS3 3.5″ drive enclosure from NewEgg, and cashed in a gift card at Circuit City to get a 300GB Seagate drive.

Formatted the drive and copied everything over tonight:

That’s a lot of space, but I’m sure I can fill it.

BTW, if you are looking for an enclosure, I can’t recommend the AMS unit enough. There’s a reason it’s one of the top rated items at NewEgg. Inexpensive, easy to install, and almost completely silent. Good stuff.

Update: Contrary to the screenshot above, I ended up reformatting the drive as ext3. NTFS was just causing too many permission problems under Linux and Samba.

PyMagnolia helps you use the Ma.gnolia.com (social bookmarking site) API.

Quite a spike in traffic today due to my Secure Firefox/IM HOWTO getting linked on the Digg front page:

Last time I checked it had over a thousand diggs and counting. Cool.