One of the topics we’re discussing in Thunderbird dev land involves how to distribute configuration files for Thunderbird, so that if you’re part of a group (users of large ISPs, enterprise users, gmail users, whatever), that the “right” default configuration can be picked up as automagically as possible.
There’s lots behind that effort, but there’s one [...]

So far, Django is still quite nice. I had some configuration problems (it didn’t help that I was also trying to setup a new OS X box at the same time), but nothing that a little perseverance and the kind help of people on the #django channel couldn’t fix.
Django is still clearly [...]

I’ve spent a few hours re-dunking my head in the Django soup. That is one impressive open source project. Apart from the immediately appealing superficial qualities (great name, beautiful CSS), it has truly stellar documentation, that shows (or at least seems to show!) that the people who designed it really knew what they [...]

In which I wax hypothetical on what comes after the Web 2.0 programming model.