Links published on August 30, 2006

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Google Sitemaps

Nice little Django add-on to automatically generate a site map for Google. Dan’s also cleaned it up and submitted it as a possible contrib app.

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Meet the Flockers: Brian Beatty

Now my personal philosophy is, “Nobody important is keeping score, so do what you think is interesting.” I recommend it to everyone.

Jason Kottke

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Things You Shouldn’t Be Doing In Rails

People sometimes ask what the philosophical differences are between Rails and Django. A lot of it has to do with things like this:

Yes, I know you’d like to have an authentication system without doing any work. Yes, I know Rails preaches convention over configuration. This is not a place where it applies. This is, as we say back in the hood, “too much software”.

Matt

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Mr Zucchini

This came by in a Flickr tag I’m subscribed to, and I liked it. Plus it gives me an opportunity to tag something with “asscrack”.

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Links published on August 31, 2006