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After nearly more than a year of development Brian Rosner merged the newforms-admin branch into trunk last night. This marks the last missing branch getting merged into trunk before the 1.0 release. Big kudos and thanks to Brian and everybody else involved in the development on this branch.

Another big change happened last night: newforms is now finally the "official" forms library for Django. At least it now resides directly within django.forms.

Both of these changes are backwards-incompatible, yet fully documented (1, 2). For everyone running on trunk (and who hasn't been preparing for this merge) this means some work esp. if you've messed around quite a lot with oldadmin. Also some of the styling in NFA looks a little bit different than before thanks to the move away from the old form manipulator modules which added some special classes to each form-element. If it annoys you, check out #5609.

I will try not to spend too much time on this book here since I'm rather pissed right now. When "Warpath", which was released in March 2006, ended it was quite clear in what direction the next book would go: the mirror universe and the whole story behind Iliana Ghemor. This book does at least the later, but leaves the first one open to the next books ... and that's my problem with "Fearful Symmetry" by Olivia Woods. The book doesn't really progress the story. It answers basically all questions you could have had about Illiah, but the actual timeline progression is veeery minimal. I guess I couldn't even spoil anything here even if I tried.

Pownce released last night the first alpha of their new desktop client. The previous, at least for me, had become unusable due to login problem and such, so I'm quite happy that there is finally an official -- yet still alpha -- replacement.

This new version thankfully comes with a simplified style and also embeds content like YouTube movies and the like instead of requiring users to once again go to the actual website. The client still uses Adobe AIR and is therefor available on Windows, MacOSX and Linux.

For the last 2 days I've now been hard at work getting some of the achievements trophies which are now available in some PS3 games since the last firmware update. And since the only game I have that supports trophies, I've been playing tons of Super Stardust HD again After getting the first 2 for finishing the first 2 levels, I noticed that for most of the trophies you have to get the expansion pack which costs 3.99 EUR. Since I wanted to get it anyway, that's not a big deal for me, but I still think its weird and a bad idea, to be honest, to make only about half of the trophies for the core game.

Ever made a comment on a weblog that was using Disqus while you were not? Well, now you can claim such comments according to this post on the Disqus blog so that you don't lose track of them if you afterwards created your own account on Disqus.

The process itself is pretty straight forward. When you see a comment that you made without being logged in, you click on your avatar and get redirected to a profile page. Such a page is generated for every anonymous commenter's email-address. You can now lay a claim on this page by entering the email address that it belongs to. Then you receive an email to confirm that this email address really belongs to you; and that's it.

Since this profile is email based (the user-specific part of the profile's URL is basically the MD5-hash of the email address) I guess this now includes all your comments made with this email address into your Disqus profile.

Really nice. Is this perhaps the first step for real comment importer?