Feel proud today, very very proud especially of 0.95 and MR
antonio
So for those of you that I haven't met or corresponded with, I'm the
founder of Tabblo, a relatively young website for telling stories with
photos, words, and highly stylized templates via a 100% web-based
interface that is usable by normal humans. We've been using Django
since day 1 of Tabblo and have been really happy about how much help
its been.
Frankly, despite having been the guy who picked it, I had originally
thought that building a massively scalable site on Django was going to
be a non-starter after we got past the initial phase and was just happy
to start it for prototyping due to the niceties the URL mapper and the
ORM provided. Boy, have you guys proven me wrong!
Anyhow, this week, we completed our migration to 0.95 and magic removal
which was painful but has shown us how much more great work you guys
have been up to. Before the move, we were running on a hacked version
of 0.91 that we had spent some cycles optimizing, mostly around ORM
caching, and my big fear was that when we rolled live with MR, we were
going to see all sorts of crazy slow-downs. Again, I am thrilled to
have been proven wrong.
I wanted to do something nice for those of you that like the kind of
thing that we do at Tabblo (see here:
http://app.tabblo.com/studio/view/favorites/antonio for some examples)
and after talking to Adrian, we've decided that the simplest most
direct thing would be to offer anyone who is so inclined a coupon for a
free poster. Since we don't normally do this kind of thing, the process
for getting it is going to be a little cumbersome: just send me an
email (antonio at tabblo dot com) with the subject line "I am a Django
developer" and I'll make sure you get the coupon within a couple of
days. In the meanwhile, feel free to play with the site and take pride
in what you've helped us accomplish.
Standing here on the shoulders of giants,
Antonio
Tom Tobin
>
> Anyhow, this week, we completed our migration to 0.95 and magic removal
> which was painful but has shown us how much more great work you guys
> have been up to. Before the move, we were running on a hacked version
> of 0.91 that we had spent some cycles optimizing, mostly around ORM
> caching, and my big fear was that when we rolled live with MR, we were
> going to see all sorts of crazy slow-downs. Again, I am thrilled to
> have been proven wrong.
The site is looking fantastic, I must say. More than anything else,
though, I'm thrilled that the Microsoft Clippy-esque
pestering-Tabblo-face is gone. ;-)
Luke Plant
> cumbersome: just send me an email (antonio at tabblo dot com)
I just discovered a cool thing: I copied and pasted 'antonio at tabblo
dot com' into the 'To' field in a new e-mail in KMail, and it
automatically translated the 'at' and the 'dot' for me (which I was
about to do myself), leaving the correct e-mail address! Wow!
(Sorry, I don't get out much)
Luke
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