The Utah Django User Group is having its first monthly meeting tonight at 7:00 at Novell’s OSTC (Building A) [MAP].
Gregory Doermann will be presenting on “Migrating Django Databases with South“. Pizza will be provided by my company (Izeni), so please try to RSVP to me directly for a basic head count.
Also, if you want to stay informed about future Utah Django meetings, please sign up for the Google group and the Utah Tech Event Calendar.
I hope to see you there!
UPDATE: My brother and business partner Gabe volunteered to do a mini-presentation on some of the non-standard ways we’ve used Django for some of our clients (like to output config files for VoIP applications). It’s titled “Unconventional Uses of Django” or “When All You Have is a Hammer, Everything Looks Like a Nail”.
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Tags: Community Events, Django, Django South, Izeni, Programming, Python, Utah Tech Events, Utah Tech Groups, Utah User Groups, Web Development, Web Frameworks
Not For Profits, Technology, Utah | Jordy | 
March 25, 2010 11:53 am | 
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When I first read about Google Friend Connect, an upcoming service that will allow website owners to easily add social network functionality to their own websites, I immediately thought of these lines from NBC’s “The Office”:
Dwight: Why am I being forced to come in tomorrow and pretend that a website made sales that I made?
Ryan: This is a temporary measure to increase the legitimacy of the site.
Stanley: I don’t like when my clients call me to help them use the website, I’m not seeing commissions on that.
Ryan: I hear you Stanley, that is a great observation. Problems like that will not happen when we launch Dunder Mifflin Infinity 2 point O.
Stanley: When will that be?
Ryan: TBD. Phyllis?
Phyllis: Did the police solve the problem with the…
Ryan: Yes, yes they did, yes they did.
Ryan: Yes, the social networking feature of the Dunder Mifflin Infinity website was infiltrated by sexual predators.
Dwight: I don’t understand why our website has to have social networking at all.
Jim: Yeah, I actually have to agree with Dwight on that one.
Ryan: It’s all about creating a one stop shop consumer experience, alright? You’re chatting with your friends, you’re talking about the latest music, about the election; all of it is happening in our virtual paper store.
Jim: And then an older gentleman asked you “Boxers or briefs?”
Creed: I don’t get the big fuss here, I like the site.
Kelly: If I’d have created a website with as many problems, I’d kill myself.
Ryan: Do you have a question Kelly?
Kelly: Yeah I have a lot of questions. Number one, how dare you?
Michael: [slow clapping] Ryan has done a very good job, and I am not applauding sarcastically. Think about it, a month ago nobody would go on this site because we were worried about getting molested, or losing our identity, having it stolen. But now, at a time TBD, all of the problems will be in the past. Ya done good kid, ya done good.
– Source: OfficeQuotes.net
I thought all this was pretty funny, but the ability to drop social features onto your website with little more than some pasting of JavaScript might just prove us all wrong. :)
Example:
3 of your friends liked SemiGloss Oxford White Cardstock #80. Click here to get new friends!
Tags: Dwight Schrute, Google Friend Connect, Humor, MySpace, Online Marketing, Social Networks, The Office, Viral Marketing, Web 2.0, Web Development
Uncategorized | Jordy | May 16, 2008 1:53 am | Comments (2)
My friend Gary told me he was just hired on as a contractor for Provo Labs doing php and mysql development. It’s funny that I heard it from him rather than at work.
Gary is really into BSD and is a big supporter of Software for Starving Students. It’ll be fun working with him.
