Next monday (12-oct) I'm doing a training session on Python & Django, organized by some open-source group. It's intended to give people a real feel of what's it like to develop in Python & Django & will contain both lecture & hands-on exercises.

The event is open to everyone, but you must register, in either:

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=146311721166

http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4561255/il/Tel-Aviv/-Django/

There will probably be more such sessions coming later (got many requests for training from Tikal & Verint employees), but they're not scheduled yet.

Architects look at thousands of buildings during their training, and study critiques of those buildings written by masters. In contrast, most software developers only ever get to know a handful of large programs well—usually programs they wrote themselves—and never study the great programs of history. As a result, they repeat one another's mistakes rather than building on one another's successes.

This book's goal is to change that. In it, the authors of twenty-five open source applications explain how their software is structured, and why.

http://www.aosabook.org/en/index.html

 In the last conference of the Israeli Internet Association, there was a day-long Django workshop by one of its founders - Jacob Kaplan-Moss. It was intended for people new to Python & Django & I highly recommend it for anyone wishing to start learning Django.

Here's the full video of the workshop (slides are also available under each video).

Enjoy.

Introduction

Confucius Task Manager or simple Conficius. The idea is standing behind was to create an interactive, annoying, really annoying tool which is able to manage your life daily TODO list, makes sure you are making  progress in your current task, reminds you about your uncompleted work, and again makes sure and reminds you and, finally, rates you progress at end of the day.

How it works