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1. Pronouncing “Django”

   I’m not saying this to anyone in particular, but I’ve heard people pronounce Django incorrectly way too often. The “dj” in Django is a hard J, like in the word “jury” or “jolly”. You don’t pronounce the D.

   Update: Alex Limi tells me I’m wrong too …

2. Environmental Theater

   If you read Bruce Schneier, as any good geek should, you probably are familiar with the term “security theater”: measures that provide the feeling of security while doing little or nothing to actually provide security.

   OK, digression. We had this recycling program in Chicago where we put our recyclables in …

3. Atom Models

   I’ve been doing a bit more with Atom lately.

   First, I started writing a library to manipulate Atom feeds and entries. For the moment this is located in atom.py. It uses lxml, as does everything markup related I do these days.

   I came upon a revelation of sorts …

4. Old Archives

5. New Blog Software (Previous)

   I’ve switched my software over to WordPress. This was long overdue, as anyone who ever wanted to read anything at all on this site probably knows. Sometime I should really write an article reflecting on the failures of my previous blog software. Lets just say that flat files aren …

6. About

   Hi, I’m Ian Bicking. I work at The Open Planning Project. I do lots of programming in Python. I keep a list of projects I participate in, though I don’t always update it. Lots of stuff in svn.colorstudy.com and svn.pythonpaste.org is written by me …

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