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Re: Djangopeople JSON parser

simon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 06:05:10 -0000

This is excellent - as far as I'm concerned this is officially supported, I'll make sure we don't make changes that break it / if it does break we'll offer an API that uses the same format.

Just one suggestion: include the full image URL instead of just starting at /static/ so people can drop that URL in to their applications without having to add djangopeople.net as a prefix.

Re: code-formatting people: I need your help

simon — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 06:21:41 -0000

Yuck, mangled my whitespace. I can't find any documentation on how to do preformatted text in Disqus comments, so here's my un-mangled version: http://simonwillison.net/st...

Re: Silas Snider, Blogger - Pet Peeve #4,543,749

simon — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 05:18:45 -0000

Dear Silas,

We read about Model-view-controller in the Gang of Four book. The controller was described as the part that kept the visual representation and the underlying data model magically in sync (note that this differs from the definition now given by Wikipedia). The concept appear to be more relevant to GUI toolkits than the Web, so we decided not to use the term in Django.

Every other web framework disagreed with us, so a year or so we basically gave up that fight and stopped complaining when people said Django was MVC. Django view functions are still called view functions though (we're certainly not going to call templates "views" - an Atom feed is most definitely still an MVC view even though it doesn't use Django's template mechanism).

Sincerely,

Simon Willison