Lee on January 14th, 2009

Seems Jono Bacon is writing a new book, The Art of Community, under a creative commons license. This is very cool.
Free Software has some amazing communities (I think I read once that Debian alone is the biggest human project ever undertaken, but I don’t have any links to back that up), and there are [...]

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Lee on January 14th, 2009

Following their acquisition by Nokia, Trolltech have added an LGPL licensing option to Qt. Qt (pronounced “cute”, not “Q.T.”), the main widget and OS abstraction layer used by KDE and many other Free Software projects, is roughly equivalent to the GTK+ library within GNOME. However, GTK+ has been LGPL from the beginning, which has, arguably, [...]

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I’ve been developing in Django a fair bit lately. For the most part, I love django. One thing that really bugs me though, is the way the templates provided don’t actually set up sensible, working defaults for you though. To get to the stage of actually creating something with Django, you first [...]

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