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July 25, 2006
Getting up to speed for developers
As we're moving along, I'm starting to collect stuff that can help people get started with Django. An interesting list of links on the blixtra blog: Top 30 Django Tutorials and Articles, complementing the overview of documentation on the Django site.
In the meantime, our colleagues at hosting have provided us a virtual machine to configure as the host for our platform. We are thinking about making such a virtual machine available to developers as well. It would make live so much easier: download the image, run it, and you're ready to help in developing our platform. No other downloads or setups needed, eveything including the automated testing ready for you to use.
Also, the data sets for our geo-location data are being merged. We have some 108,000 places in there, and about to add another 150,000 or so for the US, with a third collection still waiting. Getting everything together (longitude, lattitude, duplicate names, missing links to country or region, different spellings or transcriptions, there is some work involved before we get things on a map). Another interesting week ahead.
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July 12, 2006
Back online and moving ahead
Last Friday we had a problem with our development server, and so our Melt instances were unavailable for a while. Yesterday, a disk change in that server caused some more downtime, but things are back up again.
In the meantime, it has been a bit quiet here on the blog, while work was progressing. The naming and design are moving forward, and we should have final versions and be implementing the design in our templates soon. And... we now have the Melt project space at Sourceforge (thanks for your help, Misha!), so our software will become available through the new Sourceforge Subversion system.
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