Someone needs to write a good, clear, thorough tutorial on using signals in Django. They're either a highly powerful but underutilized tool, or a cool but completely useless feature - I haven't been able to figure out which yet. I mean, I get the concept, but what I really ...

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This is the one everyone's been waiting for:

DjangoCon 2008 Keynote: Cal Henderson

Seriously, Cal's keynote was the highlight of the conference. :)

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I haven't written much lately on the nuts and bolts of Django. I guess I've hit that point in the learning curve where I'm not taking in large chunks of knowledge anymore - now, in my current (work) project, it's all about implementing new features using the same basic concepts ...

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me: "invalid literal for INT() with base 10: ''"
me: wth kind of error is that??!!?
coworker: an awesome one!
coworker: as if we would be using anything other than base 10
me: I've worked hard my whole life to be able to create errors as ...

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So many other people have so much more to say about DjangoCon than I will, I'm afraid. While everyone else was busy liveblogging the thing, I was actually present, paying attention, being 'in the now'. So I didn't take notes for later, but I do have a lot of ...

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