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Oh something to play with for next week. It’s moving closer to 1.0 already. 1.0 should be out on September. (Source: DjangoProject)

Okay, Django 1.0 alpha has been released finally. I don’t have the time to test this out but I played around with some pre 1.0 alpha builds a couple of weeks back and that time the software was quite stable already.

Django 1.0 alpha released!

In accordance with the Django 1.0 release roadmap, tonight we’ve released the first “alpha” testing version of Django 1.0. This release includes all of the major features due for inclusion in the final Django 1.0, though some lower-priority items are still scheduled to be included before the 1.0 feature freeze, which will occur with the first beta release next month.

The next step on that path will be the first Django 1.0 beta release, currently scheduled for August 5. If you’d like to help out, please review our documentation for contributors and feel free to join in one of the development sprints scheduled for the run up to 1.0; the full schedule is available in the Django 1.0 release roadmap.

Now when would CakePHP 1.2 be released?

You can download code_swarm through Google Code. Very neatly done:

Django code_swarm

Uses Processing.

And of course, more information on code_swarm and Django.

Jacob Kaplan-Moss discusses on Django 1.0 roadmap and schedule. Some key notes includes:

• 1.0 took long due to many features due to be included, notably newforms admin and a 100% WSGI-compliant Django.
• Django 1.0 will be released in early September. Starts with an alpha, two betas, a final finally killing of with a huge party.

And now for the dates:

• July 10-12: “newforms-admin” sprint in person at EuroPython and around the world in IRC.
• July 20: 1.0 alpha
• August 5: 1.0 beta 1
• August 12: 1.0 beta 2
• August 19: 1.0 rc 1
• August 26: Earliest possible 1.0 release date, or perhaps rc2.
• September 2: 1.0

Read the full entry here.

Looks like Django is on track for 1.0. This is encouraging.

Well, honestly they don’t make money. I earned a laughable US$0.98 through a 30 day period. I am hoping that the ads can at least cover more of my expenses. I am getting an additional web host, it’s going to cost quite a bit. It’s a virtual private server (VPS) and I hope to host a couple of rather silly projects:

1. Screen scrapping: It fetches information from other websites and aggregate to my database. Uses Python.
2. Rebuilding an education website: I can’t divulge much on this at this moment. Uses PHP.
3. A Python and Django project: Can’t divulge much on this too unfortunately.

I realized I read a lot about Django but haven’t really done something out. This is going to be a good learning experience.

Queryset-refactor branch was used to develop a major refactoring of the django.db.models.query.QuerySet class to fix a group of SQL problems and make SQL generation easier for database backends requiring customization. The branch was created on 13 September, 2007, and merged into trunk on 26 April, 2008 (in [7477]).

More information on the wiki.

I don’t have time to explore these things right now but I sure will when my examinations are over.

Okay, some Ubuntu news. Next version of Ubuntu is going to be released real soon. I got the released candidate already. It seems to have killed support for my old graphic card. Maybe there is some problem with the configuration. It’s going to be released on coming Thursday. The following is a news excerpt:

Ubuntu ‘reaping Linux dividend’

A new version of Ubuntu, a version of the Linux OS, is released on Thursday.

Mr Shuttleworth said the success of the Asus Eee PC and the work of the One Laptop Per Child programme had driven awareness of open source.

“There has been a sea change in the way people think of Linux, which is very healthy,” he said. (more…)