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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.
Posted by rolf at July 25, 2006 12:50 PM
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