Then, version 2.0 landed

July 27th, 2008

And finally here it is: I launched right now this site’s redesign. I haven’t put a lot of work on it but I’m pleased with the final results. I like min­i­mal­ism and mono­chrome designs, and even though this isn’t the most min­i­mal­ist design ever, I think it’s a good com­pro­mise. Taking advan­tage from oppor­tu­nity, I added some new fea­tures to the site (and removed some old ones).

The biggest change is the right column: now inte­grates my pownce feed. I’m still trying to under­stand why it doesn’t show noth­ing but simple posts, but I’ll fix it some­day (that’s not my fault though, I’m using a word­press plugin). And all the stuff that pre­vi­ously were on the right, now are on the very bottom of the page.

Just a couple of rants: I wish this was pow­ered from django and I hate wordpress.

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Practical Django Projects

July 5th, 2008

Due to my devo­tion to the Django web frame­work, I finally got my copy of Prac­ti­cal Django Projects, by James Bennet. Not really expect­ing to have that soon, but a beau­ti­ful suprise anyway (to say the truth, I didn’t bought this: this has been sent to me as replace­ment prize for djan­go­dash because I was not eleg­i­ble to get the G33K beers since I live out­side US. Thanks to the gen­eros­ity of Daniel Lindsley).

(Con­tinue reading…)

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