Quote of the month
From project.ioni.st:
The power of static typing. 294 pages on how to use Arrays.
…about the new “Java Generics and Collections” book
Archive for November, 2006
Plone day
Today was my Plone day. I was at the Plone Tour 2006 organized by Redomino here in Milan.
Since I’ve never used Plone in my whole life I felt myself like a total newbie but I was quite impressed by the simplicity of the overall.
The key thing (one of the many to be honest) is the learning curve that is definitely not steep. You don’t have to master everything to get started and you get a lot of things for free (like authentication and authorization, internationalization, standard compliancy, RSS, live search and so on).
The platform and website are entirely customizable inside out so you, my fellow Pythonista, can do really everything.
With the tons of available (and modifiable thanks to the free software philosophy) products you can plug-in new storage engines, Google Maps, themes, forums, newsletter. That’s really amazing!
In the afternoon, after learning the basics and something more we delved in some use cases to see what Plone can do for real.
Last but not least, Plone scales very well and can work in a lot of different configurations (load balancing, with Squid, etc.)
Plone impressed me positively so I’ll make the acquaintance with it eventually.
Demolition Girl
This little girl is very funny. She’s 8 and she wants to blow up her elementary school. A very very very funny joke based in Ireland.
Could help to me to destroy my school please?
ah ah ah 
Praising the Django book
I just finished reading the beta chapters released online in these very days and I’m astonished about the initiative. I like the reasons behind this.
I’ve made some comments here and there because as part of the community we must participate in this project even if we don’t actually use Django.
I find the documentation of this framework way and way better than the Rails one. I also enjoyed listening to Jacob Kaplan-Moss explaining the rationale behind Django.
Good work guys, from good work always come up good stuff.
