So, my first Django application is live - not finished yet, but at the moment already so good that it's better than the old PHP mess that was running before. And it's about my image gallery at viele-bunte-bilder.de. At the moment there is user registration and everything related to it - but I'll probably implement that later. Or maybe not. Let's see.
In any case, it's already quite nice - I can upload pictures directly from iPhoto again (which was the most important advantage of the old gallery software) and the files are in the filesystem, not in a database - which was also quite an important point.
The software itself is of course available - anyone who wants to browse, I have set up a Trac instance with my Django experiments.
Since 2007 nothing has been online.
Way cool: Objective CLIPS is a new development environment for OS X. From the description:
Using Objective C runtime introspection, CLIPS, and FScript, it is possible to write intelligent Cocoa applications. Any Objective C object can be asserted as a fact in CLIPS, however, CoreData provides an additional meta model along with object persistence.
CLIPS is an expert system environment that is based on a Lisp dialect and enables the management of rules and facts, as well as reasoning about them. FScript is a scripting language inspired by Smalltalk that works directly with the ObjectiveC classes in OS X. Both together should enable pretty cool things, especially since databases and documents can also be easily created with CoreData. And both languages (CLIPS and FScript) I found quite interesting in my experiments with them - CLIPS was even used by me for a longer time as a "Lisp replacement", because it is indeed a rather old-fashioned Lisp, but is equipped with powerful additional abstraction possibilities.
Again someone who thinks they can create a great new format: RSS 3.0 - and that someone is too stupid to google first. Because otherwise they would have stumbled upon RSS 3.0 and maybe thought about it.
Oh well, thinking isn't one of the usual activities of great inventors of syndication formats, as we already noticed in the discussion around Atom. I'm still convinced that all syndication formats are a large-scale net psychological test.
Heise also has something about it. And just like Rogers Cadenhead - who is on the RSS Advisory Board.
Writing PlugIns describes how to create iPhoto Exporter Plugins. Could be quite interesting.