Five and Lime » Bath http://www.fiveandlime.com Personal web site of Keir Whitaker, Carsonite and Web Tinkerer Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:43:19 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 en 10 Reasons You Should Try Django http://www.fiveandlime.com/journal/2008/09/14/10-reasons-you-should-try-django/ http://www.fiveandlime.com/journal/2008/09/14/10-reasons-you-should-try-django/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:36:14 +0000 Keir Whitaker http://www.fiveandlime.com/?p=38 Here are my slides from my talk at BathCamp 2008. I thought I only had about 15 minutes so didn’t include any code examples. In the end slots for 40 minutes so I could have gone into more detail. That said it seemed to work quite well and a good discussion followed my brief set of slides.

BathCamp was my first experience of a BarCamp/UnConference event and I really enjoyed it. Unfortunately child care commitments meant I was unable to stay past 5pm so I missed a couple of talks I was really interested in, in particular “How to build a web app in 5 days” and @bealers “Tub Quiz”. Next time!

So here are my 10 reasons I think you should give Django a spin.

You can comment over on Slideshare too if you prefer. Thanks.

]]> http://www.fiveandlime.com/journal/2008/09/14/10-reasons-you-should-try-django/feed/ BathCamp 2008 http://www.fiveandlime.com/journal/2008/09/13/bathcamp-2008/ http://www.fiveandlime.com/journal/2008/09/13/bathcamp-2008/#comments Sat, 13 Sep 2008 07:09:54 +0000 Keir Whitaker http://www.fiveandlime.com/?p=34 Today sees the first ever BarCamp in Bath, cleverly titled BathCamp. Props to Mike Ellis and co for organising the event. Carsonified are sponsoring breakfast so it’s an early doors trip to our local Sainsbury’s for hot pastries and other essential nourishment.

It looks set to be a great day with talks on community building and the prefect espresso to name but two. It’s also a great opportunity to meet “old” friends and make new ones as well as putting twitter names to faces. I have prepared a talk on why you should try Django and will post the slides later today.

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