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August 30, 2006

Schneier on fighting terror with anti-terror

by Kevin Dangoor

Probably one of the best articles you’ll see with a succinct message about how we’re doing all of the wrong things in the face of a terrorist threat:
Schneier on Security: What the Terrorists Want

Another thought experiment: Imagine for a moment that the British government arrested the 23 suspects without fanfare. Imagine that the TSA and its European counterparts didn’t engage in pointless airline-security measures like banning liquids. And imagine that the press didn’t write about it endlessly, and that the politicians didn’t use the event to remind us all how scared we should be. If we’d reacted that way, then the terrorists would have truly failed.

August 30, 2006

Guido’s clarification on the pronouncement

by Kevin Dangoor

Django: Python on a Plane
“I don’t do a lot of Web programming, and the Web programming that I do isn’t very complex, so I’m not sure that my vote should count very strongly,” [Guido] added. “But people keep asking me to pick one, and I like Django because I like the way its authors run their project: They really ‘get’ open-source development.”

August 30, 2006

In praise of the Django people

by Kevin Dangoor

As open source projects, TurboGears and Django have their differences. We compete for many of the same users (though there are some things that may be easier in one or the other).  That said, I must say that the Python-web people that I’ve interacted with have been great. Jacob Kaplan-Moss posted his own take on Guido’s Pronouncement, even linking to my post on the subject. Thanks, Jacob!

Between PyCon and EuroPython, I got to spend time with a whole bunch of Python-web people (some of whom I saw in both places: Simon Willison, Jim Fulton, Philip von Weitershausen). It’s really a great combination of competition and cooperation, and I think we’re all the better for it.

Cheers to Adrian Holovaty on the announcement that Django’s going to include optional integration of SQLAlchemy. It’s a good benefit for Django users, and I think all of us that use SQLAlchemy will benefit from the additional users of the project.

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August 30, 2006

Seth’s Blog: Marketing Morality

by Kevin Dangoor

Seth Godin talks about Marketing Morality. Just as marketers need to take responsibility for the things we sell, so do we all…