Archive 2007

Dave Dribin recently wrote a great article comparing 3 of the most prominent distributed version control systems (git, bzr and mercurial) followed up yesterday by his reasoning for choosing Mercurial.

2007 is nearing its end and so it's time for all those annoying "best-x of the year"" articles and shows all around the web. In order not to annoy you all that much, I will try to keep my "Best Game of the Year" post short (at least shorter than what the folks over at Eurogamer produced ).

Hmm... just noticed a big change in Django's newforms API which happened in r6844 (so basically on Dec 2nd): form_for_model and form_for_instance got deprecated in favor of the the new ModelForm class. The motivation behind this move is quite well documented on the django-dev mailinglist, but for me personally it seems to boil down to replace form_for_* with a much more declarative syntax (which is a good thing).

So if you for instance have a model Game like this (if I understood it correctly)

class Game(models.Model):
    name = models.CharField(max_length=150)
    ...

you could easily create a form class for it like this:

class GameForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Game

I really can't wait to actually play around with this since it just makes everything all so much more consistent

For some details checkout the new modelforms documentation page.

Sweet! Thinkgeek has another great product in their stock: A Halo 3 Messenger bag, that actually looks great Just too bad, that it will probably get stuck in customs which at this price results in ~ +33%

Picture taken from Thinkgeek.com

[via Wonderland]

Recently, in a support request on phpbb.com the question came up, if it's also possible, in the situation that you have a multi-lingual board, that custom BBCode-buttons could also have a localized button label and tooltip. While phpBB3 by itself doesn't really support this out of the box, it's not all that hard to get it working.

Next book in my travel to Star Trek literature and again a TNG book. Death in Winter is set right after the end of Nemesis or even I guess after Trust yourself when all men doubt you, the last story in the TNG anniversary anthology The Sky's the Limit with Captain Picard trying to deal with his close friend and secret love (secret for whom isn't really the question here, I guess) transferring over to SF Medical.

A different Barcamp is about to be held in April next year in Venice. The focus here seems to be microblogging, hence the title "Twittercamp" which will perhaps give it a totally different flair than all the Barcamps I've attended so far. And I love the logo

[via webeconoscenza.blogspot.com]

(P.S.: Sorry if some of the information here is inaccurate. I just used Google to translate the respective pages )

After more than 5 years of development, phpBB 3.0 was finally released today at 17:00 GMT. phpBB 2.0 is one of if not the most well known and most used open source bulletin board system out there, so there was quite some anticipation for the next major release.

Seems like bzr is approaching its first major release with the release of the third release candidate for the 1.0 series today. According to the respective announcement by Martin Pool on the bazaar-mailinglist this morning, this is supposed to be the last candidate before the big milestone.

I honestly wouldn't have thought that bzr would reach the big 1.0 before Mercurial, although I guess I could have guessed so the moment they made the version jump from 0.1x.x to 0.9x.x a few months ago. Now I'm really curious to see if bzr will gain some more momentum outside of the Ubuntu world with this major release. Personally I would really love to see the integration of bzr as supported code repository by the ohloh-folks.

Seit gestern gibt es auf django-de.org eine neue deutschsprachige Community-Seite für Django. Hauptziel ist derzeit die Übersetzung der Dokumentation ähnlich den Initiativen, die es bereits für die spanische und französische Community gibt. Wer mithelfen möchte, findet unter http://www.django-de.org/participate/ genauere Information.

Ein herzliches Dankeschön an Jannis Leidel und alle anderen, die mitgeholfen haben, django-de ins Leben zu rufen