A quick tip for anyone with time to spare: The company I work for, DUO Interactive, LLC, is in need of some extra Djangonauts for some small to mid-sized projects. The work is payable on an hourly basis, and can scale up or down based on availability. Most of the projects are for the Ligonier Ministries site, which sees about 10,000 visitors a day.

Those with a firm understanding of Python/Django (and some ...

While by no means at all ready to be deemed "mature", django-eve-db is now at a state that I feel fine about announcing its presence to the wider Python/Django community.

django-eve-db is a set of Django models that wrap CCP's EVE Online data dump. This makes it extremely easy to query the dump and rapidly develop software around it. Little to no SQL is required for many usage cases.

I could really use ...

Thanks to liushie, a math domain error was caught in the CIE1994 and CMC color difference methods. This only manifested itself for certain CIELab values, and went unnoticed as a result of this. The problems have been corrected and released as 1.0.6.

Please see the project page for more details on what python-colormath, how to install it, and how to use it. This is unlikely to interest you if you are not looking ...

For anyone who plays EVE Online, I have a proposition for you. Myself and a few nerdy corpmates have been working on the django-eve projects, which are a collection of Django apps for EVE Online. We're looking at trying to get more people involved with the project, whether it be providing feedback, patches, or joining up with us longer term.

Our eventual goal as a corporation would be to use these various open-source components ...

As most Django blogs seem to be going with Disqus these days, I set out to try it for myself. The install was simple enough, but Disqus was unable to reach my production site (the one you're looking at) most of the time. Every once in a while, it'd decide that it felt like working, which left me with the normal Disqus comment box. Great.

I tested my shiny new comments by leaving ...

We had to do some things at work using TIFF files with software that relied on the presence of certain TIFF Tags. We're slowly phasing out some legacy C applications with Python equivalents, and decided to use Python Imaging Library for the task.

Everything worked brilliantly, aside from the fact that most of the tags from the original file we were modifying were getting wiped out in the newly saved file. This was a ...

To improve collaboration, the Evennia MUD Server project now has an IRC channel on Freenode, #evennia. We have taken it a step further and linked this up with our test game, so those messing around in-game can still talk/listen on the IMCEvennia channel (which is also replicated to the MudBytes Inter-MUD network).

Evennia is a Python+Twisted+Django-based MUD server. For those that who have no idea what this is, it's a base ...

After a few weeks of slow work, I finally have released python-fedex. This module is a very light wrapper around suds and the Fedex WSDLs. There is very little abstraction, the idea is just to handle the annoying WSDL stuff behind-the-scenes and raise some basic exceptions if really bad things happen.

By figuring out the suds+WSDL end of things, I hope to allow other Python developers to jump into their projects much more quickly ...

I just thought I'd provide a friendly heads up to the Django and Python communities that the Python 2.6 distributed with MacPorts does not compile on Snow Leopard as of now. This issue is outlined on MacPorts ticket #20284.

There are some really hacky work-arounds, but they are not for the feint of heart. This is reportedly an upstream Python problem, and has been reported as such by the MacPorts community. While Python ...

I am pleased to announce the release of django-eve-proxy 0.1. This is a simple proxy/cache app for Django that you may drop in to assist in accessing the API through your Python modules, or with a urls.py entry, via HTTP.

Although young, django-eve-proxy should be fully functional and ready to go. All comments, feedback, and suggestions are appreciated.