Django 1.0 was finally released, it is a moment of joy for us Django users/developers.

Many many stuff changed since I started using it in last year’s November and I’ve been using it and watching it grow in quality and community with great pleasure.

Here’s a quote from the release notes that describes a little the work Django people have done:
“Since Django 0.96, we’ve made over 4,000 code commits, fixed more than 2,000 bugs, and edited, added, or removed around 350,000 lines of code. We’ve also added 40,000 lines of new documentation, and greatly improved what was already there.”

Check the release notes or get started with Django! It will change your way of seeing web development (and this also goes for all you Rails people out there).

I just can’t get tired of Dilbert!

Here’s a touching short movie about our poor, struggling lives as programmers

Hope every suit boss out there watches it.

Ubuntu, the marvelous GNU/Linux distro is announcing its Developer Week and you are free to participate on it at #ubuntu-classroom on irc.freenode.net.

As it says on the web site, in the Developer Week you can:

• learn about different packaging techniques
• find out more about different development teams
• check out the efforts of the world-wide Development Community
• participate in open Q&A sessions with Ubuntu developers
• much more…

So, today I continued my work in my SAPO Summerbits project. It consists in developing an OCR plugin for DSpace.

It’s been a while since I touched JAVA, the last time I did something with it was for BluePad which has a much simpler code-base.
Anyway, I don’t think I am a little rust on JAVA, it’s just that if you spend a while doing code in Python, there is some things you just take for granted. I mean, taking a look back at the JAVA API docs (good docs, BTW) just make me think: “Why the hell so much stuff for such a simple task (say, reading from a text file)!?”

But anyway, it is GOOD to switch programming languages once in while so you don’t stick too much to some stuff. One of the things I like doing most is *learning*, so I am looking forward to write more code in C once I get time, maybe learn C++ as well.