Christian Joergensen:
About Django and the importance of releases
["My favorite Python web framework, Django, has not been updated for a long time. The most current release, 0.96, was released in March 2007. This is a very long time, when you're in the market of web frameworks. This doesn't seem to bother a lot of people, as the common answer in the django community seems to be just to run the trunk version (development version). I for one doesn't like that solution. And here are some of the reasons why."]
The historic takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, which could come as soon as this weekend, moved to the forefront of the presidential campaign Saturday.
In the arena that night, the whole last minute was drowned out by cheers — and then when the soaring music swelled, the confetti rained down as the harbinger of balloons and the hopeful first family took the stage, forget about it — it was a perfect end to a convention that last Monday, no one even knew if it would happen. But it did, and I'm so glad to have been there.
