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-This week's theme for tutorial of the day is [Django][1], an open source, high-level Python web framework whose tag line -- The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines -- nicely sums up its goals.

Perhaps the best comparison for Django is Ruby on Rails, which is also a web application framework written, regrettably, in Ruby, whereas Django is, thankfully, written in Python. Django pushes what's known as the DRY principle, "Don't Repeat Yourself." As such most aspects of Django are loosely coupled and extremely easy to reuse.

So what is Django? Is it a CMS? Is it a blogging tool? Is it an early twentieth century jazz guitarist? No. No. And yes, but that's not important right now.

Django is a framework built on Python that you can use to build a Content Management System or a blogging tool, but it is not limited to that. In fact Django reminds me a bit of the character in Airplane who always answers the "what do you make of that?" question literally... *Why, I can make a hat or a brooch or a pterodactyl...*

You'd be hard pressed to find something in the world of web development that Django can't make. In my own work I've made a blogging CMS, a restaurant menu application, an online store and resort rental reservation system using Django.

So where to get started? Why the official Django website of course. There's a nice [overview][2], an [installation guide][3] and a series of "hello world" type [tutorials][4].

Perhaps the most difficult thing about using Django is getting it installed. While you can run Django with Apache 1.3 and FCGI, I don't recommend it for production work. The preferred method is to use Apache 2 with mod_python, but unfortunately not many web hosts offer that setup for "shared accounts."

If you don't want to pony up for a dedicated server, the Django Wiki maintains a list of [Django friendly hosts][5]. If you're looking to set up a local development server it's not too difficult to do on Mac OS X. Antonio Cavedoni has a [nice tutorial][6] to get you started. (Regrettably I don't know of anything similar for Windows users, but perhaps someone can leave some suggestions in the comments).

I should point out that for simple testing purposes Django includes a built in server which you can use to get started.

Later this week I'll post some links to tutorials that help you build more sophisticated applications using Django.

[1]: http://www.djangoproject.com/ "Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines"
[2]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/overview/ "Django Overview"
[3]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/install/ "Installation Guide"
[4]: http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/tutorial1/ "Writing your first Django application"
[5]: http://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/DjangoFriendlyWebHosts "Django Friendly Webhosts"
[6]: http://cavedoni.com/2005/django-osx "Installing Django on OS X"
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-<img alt="Wiredblogs" title="Wiredblogs" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/wiredblogs.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />Elsewhere on Wired Blogs:

*	The big news today is on Gadget Lab where you'll [find all the latest goodies][1] from the ongoing CES show in Las Vegas.

[1]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/ "Gadget Lab"

*	Leander Kahney over at Cult of Mac is [predicting a riot][2] at tomorrow's Macworld keynote address. "Expectations for Steve Jobs' keynote speech Tuesday are so unreasonably high that anything less than an iPod-cum-videophone-miniPC that downloads movies wirelessly from the net and projects them on your living room wall with 7.1 surround sound is going to disappoint."

[2]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2007/01/macworlds_a_rio.html "Macworld's a Riot"

*	Listening Post's Eliot Van Buskirk has a Wired.com article in which he [lists the seven reasons][3] why the MP3 format is the future of the music industry.

[3]: http://www.wired.com/news/columns/0,72412-0.html? "Who's Killing MP3 and ITunes?"

*	27B Stroke 6 [dreams of ACLU and EFF ads][4] on the bottom of airport screening trays (that would be "divestiture bins" for those in the know).

[4]: http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/01/the_transportat.html "Screening Bins to Get ACLU ads?"

*	Over at Bodyhack, Kristen Philipkoski [wonders][5] if we might need some federal legislation for genetic privacy.

[5]: http://blog.wired.com/biotech/2007/01/francis_collins.html "Francis Collins: U.S. Needs Genetic Privacy Protection"
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-<img alt="Nightlybuild" title="Nightlybuild" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/nightlybuild.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The Nightly Build, compiling the day's headlines:

*	Last week I mentioned the Devorak keyboard layout, but now I've discovered yet another alternative to QWERTY -- the [Colemak layout][3]. I agree with the commenter at [Metafilter][4], where I stumbled across the Colemak: "I predict that in 800 years time when all humans live as .hum files running on virtual computers in postbiological cyberspace, our virtual keyboards will still use the QWERTY layout." Old habits die hard.

[3]: http://www.metafilter.com/mefi/57599 "Like Dorvak, only better"
[4]: http://colemak.com/ "Colemak keyboard layout"

*	From the Pew Internet Project & American Life Project's [latest research][2]: "More than half (55%) of all of online American youths ages 12-17 use online social networking sites." People get paid to tell us that?

[2]: http://www.pewinternet.org/press_release.asp?r=134 "55% of online teens use social networks"

*	Macworld: The Prequel. Today there's too much hype, too many predictions and too much positive press, [remember when things really sucked][1]?

[1]: http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.06/apple.html "Wired 1997: 101 Ways to Save Apple"

*	Second Life is now [open source][5].

[5]: http://money.cnn.com/2007/01/07/technology/secondlife.fortune/index.htm?postversion=2007010807 "CNN: Second Life to go open source"

*	Like porn spam, the [idea of a .xxx domain suffix][6] for porn websites just doesn't seem to die.

[6]: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6240725.stm "BBC: Proposal for porn domain revived"
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-Macworld isn't just about Apple announcements, plenty of third party software debuts at the annual conference as well. Nisus, long-time Mac developers and makers of Nisus Writer Express, just [announced a new version of Writer][1], dubbed Pro.

I was a big fan of Nisus Writer back in the OS 9 days, but Nisus Writer Express just never grabbed me. 

The new Pro version promises to bring back some more of the layout features that the old classic version had and introduces some new features as well including support for Table of Contents, Indexing, Bookmarks, Widow and Orphan control, Cross References, Line Numbering, and Text Wrap around images.

The pro version also promises support for Word files, though the announcement lists .doc, not the new .docx format. The default file format for Writer Pro is, like Writer Express, .rtf.

The software isn't publicly available yet, but Nisus says a beta test version will be arriving soon and the final version is expected in early spring. We'll be sure to give you the full rundown once it's available.

[1]: http://www.nisus.com/pro/ "Nisus Writer Pro"
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-<img border="0" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/office2007_1.jpg" title="Office2007_1" alt="Office2007_1" style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px; float: right;" />Last week I had an article on Wired.com about [Microsoft's new Open Office XML document format][4], which will debut with Office 2007 later this month. In the article I wrote that the new format is not backwards compatible with previous version of the Office suite.

While this is true, a number of savvy readers have written to tell me that there is an [upgrade pack available][1] for older versions of Office which will allow them to interact with the new OOXML formatted documents.

Microsoft's own documentation is a little vague on what you can do with the converters once they're installed, some of the documentation says, "read Open Office XML files" and other in other places the tech notes say read and write. Hopefully the later case is the accurate one.

One thing I haven't seen is whether or not the converters allow you to create new documents in the OOXML format or whether this is simply a way for legacy Office users to interact with documents they might receive from Office 2007 users.

The Mac Business Unit has [posted converters][2] for Office Mac users and there's also a [rumor][3] that Apple's next OS X, Leopard, will have native support for Open Office XML.

I'm currently downloading the Office 2007 demo so I can create some OOXML documents and play around with them in older versions of Office, but in the mean time if you have any experience let your fellow Monkey Bites readers know in the comments below.

[1]: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD1466 "Microsoft Office Compatibility Pack for Word Excel and Powerpoint 2007 File Formats"

[2]: http://blogs.msdn.com/macmojo/archive/2006/12/19/and-we-re-back.aspx "Mac BU blog on Office 2007 compatibility"

[3]: http://blog.wired.com/cultofmac/2006/12/rumor_leopard_t.html "Cult of Mac: Rumor: Leopard to Support Office 2007 Files"
[4]: http://www.wired.com/news/technology/software/0,72403-0.html?tw=wn_technology_5 "MS Fights to Own Your Office Docs"
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-<img alt="Any_key_3" title="Any_key_3" src="http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/any_key_2.jpg" border="0" style="float: right; margin: 0px 0px 5px 5px;" />The morning Reboot has a nasty headcold, but soldiers on:

*	The new version of Blogger now supports using a custom domain for serving your blog. From the Blogger Buzz [announcement][1]: "If you already own a domain named, say, mysite.com and want your blog to be served at that address instead of at a blogspot.com address, we can host your blog on that domain for you — for free." 

[1]: http://buzz.blogger.com/2007/01/blogger-custom-domains.html "Blogger supports custom domains"

*	Over at CES, Microsoft and Ford [announced an in-car communication and entertainment system][2] which will be available starting later this year. Check out the [Gadget Lab][3] blog to stay abreast of all the CES happenings.

[2]: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/298729_msft07.html "Microsoft and Ford announce deal"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/ "Wired's Gadget Lab"

*	PC World takes one for the team. Editors at PC World signed up for 31 different online services and then tried to cancel them. They then wrote up the [resulting hassles][4] so you can avoid them.

[4]: http://www.pcworld.com/printable/article/id,128206/printable.html "Just Cancel the @#%$* Account!"


*	Yahoo is [rebuilding Yahoo Messenger][5] specifically for Windows Vista. The new software will reportedly be released as a public beta in Q2.

[5]: http://news.com.com/2100-1032_3-6147793.html?part=rss&tag=2547-1_3-0-20&subj=news "New Yahoo Messenger Previewed at CES"


*	And finally, my personal favorite headline of the day: "[NASA found life on Mars -- and killed it][6]."

[6]: http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/01/07/mars.life.ap/index.html "CNN: NASA found life on Mars -- and killed it"
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-Sling Media, the folks that brought you the SlingBox, which we've [looked at before][3], have just announced a new product called SlingCatcher that reverses the SlingBox concept to [bring internet video to your television][1].

I've never used a SlingBox in part because I've never wanted to get things off my TV, I want to get things *on* my TV. The new SlingCatcher does exactly that, it moves content from your PC to your television.

The software bundled with SlingCatcher, dubbed SlingProjector, enables you to wirelessly project your PC's content to your TV. Anything that you can watch on your PC, whether it's YouTube movies or content from the soon-to-be-public Venice Project, can be sent to your TV via SlingProjector.

Along with SlingProjector, the SlingCatcher also features a piece of software called the "SlingPlayer for TV" which allows you to send content from one TV to another without the need for a PC or additional boxes from the cable company. 

The appeal for hi-res content like feature films or television shows is obvious, but how is highly compressed video from sites like YouTube going to look on a high-def Plasma or LCD television? So far Sling hasn't given any details on how the software will handle the potential resolution problems.

And it's possible no one will care. According to a Forrester Research study, 80 percent of viewers are uninterested in buying a device to let Internet videos to be viewed on TV sets.

The new Sling device also faces some competition from Apple who are expected to give more details on the "iTV" offering at tomorrow's MacWorld expo.

SlingCatcher will be available "by the middle of this year" and SlingMedia says the price will be under $200.

[Also see Gadget Lab's [coverage][2] of Sling's announcement]

[1]: http://yahoo.reuters.com/news/articlehybrid.aspx?type=comktNews&storyID=urn:newsml:reuters.com:20070108:MTFH74380_2007-01-08_03-00-09_N07305248&pageNumber=1&imageid=&cap=&sz=13&WTModLoc=HybArt-C1-ArticlePage1 "Sling Media to link PCs to TVs"
[2]: http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2007/01/sling_extends_r.html "Gadget Lab: Sling Extends Reach"
[3]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2006/10/slingplayer_for.html "Monkey Bites on SlingBox"
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-[TextExpander][1] is a handy little app from Smile On My Mac that once you use, you'll wonder how you did without it.

TextExpander is a preference pane and to use it you'll need to enable the Assistive Devices support (also in the preferences under Universal Access). Once installed, TextExpander runs in the background with a fairly small RAM footprint (currently on my Macbook it's using 12 MB).

I'm a big fan of applications that do one thing and do it well, which is exactly the goal of TextExpander whose "one thing" is replacing text you type with other text (or images). The concept is simple, take chunks of text you type on a regular basis, the canonical example being email signatures, and create an abbreviation. Now when you type the abbreviation TextExpander replaces it with the longer text.

For instance, every morning when I post the reboot I need to embed an image using an <code><img /></code> tag. Typing out the full tag with all the attributes every time would be a pain, so I created an abbreviation in TextExpander and now I simply type my abbreviation, <code>anykey.</code>, and TextExpander jumps in a replaces that with the img tag code.

There's a million ways you could use TextExpander, for instance (from the website):

*	Insert standard greetings, text fragments, and signatures — including formatted text and pictures.
*	Insert the current date and time in any format you prefer.
*	Use editor-independent code templates and have Textexpander position the cursor just where it needs to be.
*	Type special characters without having to launch any special characters palette.
*	Have TextExpander correct typos automatically.

The last item in that list is what got me addicted to TextExpander. The good folks at Smile On My Mac have [created a nice file full of common typos][2] that you can download and use with TextExpander. Say goodbye to "teh" when you meant "the" and other fat-fingered-typist errors.

My one gripe with TextExpander is that whenever it replaces text that text also gets copied to the clipboard potentially replacing things you might be waiting to paste somewhere else. I use [Butler][3] which includes a multiple entry clipboard so I can always get my text back, but it's annoying nonetheless and something to keep in mind when you evaluate TextExpander.

While I love TextExpander I'll be the first to admit that $29.95 is a bit pricey, but it's on par with other offerings in the field -- most notably [TypeIt4Me][4], which offers vary similar features and costs $27.

[1]: http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/ "TextExpander"
[2]: http://www.smileonmymac.com/textexpander/autocorrect.html "TextExpander autocorrect file"
[3]: http://www.petermaurer.de/nasi.php?section=butler "Butler"
[4]: http://www.typeit4me.com/ "TypeIt4Me"
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