Good discussion on Quora: Which should I learn, Django or Rails?
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Which should I learn, Django or Rails?
Answer (1 of 11): As Jrme Renard said, this is really a Python vs Ruby question, not Django vs Rails. And, as can be gathered from the other answers to this question, there is no clear winner. Both …
Say you have an awesome web app you developed in DjangoRailsPHPPerlJavaBashAwk. You one day wake up and decide you want to add support for push (real-time) notifications. Sure, you can run periodic AJAX calls, do long-polling, or utilize WebSockets yourself. But that's a lot of work, and that's what Socket.IO is for.
announce.js lets you seamlessly (well, almost) integrate your existing framework with the power of node and socket.io. just install it, add the proper client for your web framework of choice (currently, it's Django only), and send those realtime messages from your own code, in your own language, inside your own views. https://github.com/ozkatz/announce.js
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announce.js
announce.js – Seamlessly add realtime notifications to your existing web app
A bit less exciting every year, but still one of the best things you can possibly do with a curious kid in the Bay Area. We'll never stop going! Note & pix:
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Maker Faire 2012 | scot hacker's foobar blog
Hard to believe this was Maker Faire #7 already the Bay Area's great festival of DIY amazingness. And it was the 7th annual pilgrimage for my son and I haven't missed one yet! Honestly, I …
Hard to believe this was Maker Faire #7 already – the Bay Area’s great festival of DIY amazingness. And it was the 7th annual pilgrimage for my son and I – haven’t missed one yet! Honestly, I have to admit its specialness is diminishing with every passing year. When Maker Faire launched, it felt amazing to see that O’Reilly had tapped into this hidden wellspring of invention that had been bubbling just under the surface. Steampunk was new, Arduino was on the outskirts, and welding goggles were only owned by mechanics and obscure artists.
Now, seven years later, there’s a feeling of sameness to Maker Faire, and as the festival gets more packed every year, it also becomes less dangerous, and the really exciting stuff becomes more scarce. Despite that, it’s still one of the most stimulating things you can possibly do with a kid in the Bay Area – an endless well of creativity and self-empowerment, and we’ll never stop going.
Blown away by this duct tape garden, consisting of more than 7,000 individual mini-sculptures:
Bummed not to see the giant Mousetrap at this year’s faire – its absence was like a big hole in the day. But Cyclecide continues to be one of our favorite parts of the day – dozens bikes hacked and chopped into every bizarre configuration imaginable, and entire carnival rides made of bike parts. Nothing at Maker Faire is more interactive, or more twisted. Also love the companion wooden bikes.
Up at 4am for an amazing day with family and friends, 1500 feet in the air above Santa Rosa with Wine Country Balloons. Something I’ve wanted to do since I was a kid, and worth the wait. Kind of eerie how still and quiet it is up there – since you’re always with the wind, you’ll never feel the wind while in a balloon, which is what makes it so serene.Absolutely amazing experience, and a picture perfect day for it.
The 1500′ elevation is pretty unique – you just rocket past this height when ascending or descending in an airplane, but getting to hang out at this medium height is magical – low enough to see everything on the ground clearly, high enough for it to be outside of your normal experience, and just a little bit scary. It’s magical for the same reason Kite Aerial Photography works so well (though the balloon is higher than most kites ever venture, you’re still well below the cloud line on most days).
Miles thought these two burners looked like faces. He was right.
Flickr set here, or see slideshow below. I actually didn’t include a lot of shots looking down here – while mesmerizing to experience, they’re not awesome as photos – just lots of trees and grass etc. The best ones are the series of the inflation and deflation, which you can almost play as an animation.
Something I’d love to do again, but unfortunately cost-prohibitive — more of a once-in-a-lifetime experience. Finally got to check off that Bucketlist item, too.
"Please, Internet, if I ever write about Klout in any way, punch me square in the face."
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TechCrunch | XKCD: Punch Me In The Face If I Use Klout
I don't understand Klout. I've convinced myself that it's best that way. I just avoid it, really. Grading a person's social media influence on a scale of 100 seems like something popular girls would d…
Stoked to watch my son Miles perform tomorrow night in the 4th/5th grade rendition of A Midsummer Night's Dream. They've worked really hard on it, and today's dress rehearsal was stellar. Public welcome!
b******b by TADAO CERN
Last Friday, during the Design Weekend in Vilnius, Lithuanian photographer Tadas erniauskas held one of the craziest photo shoots we've ever seen. Visitors to the TADAO CERN studio were invited to pa…
Expected a cheesy monster movie, but got something a bit different. You never actually see the monster in this one, since it's just a disembodied mental state that can see through the eyes of the creatures whose minds it occupies. Terrific view of life in 1955… if everyone lived in the desert in nuclear families with crazed animals and depressive mothers.
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The Beast with a Million Eyes – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Beast with a Million Eyes is a science-fiction movie about an alien able to see through the eyes of the many creatures he takes control of. It was produced and directed by David Kramarsky, althoug…
