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So I knew google gave its employees the free food, and rides to work on the google bus, and there’s an herb garden or something around here too, but the haircut bus just puts things at a whole new level.

Djangocon is pretty much teh awesome. I hadn’t noticed that Geo Django added OpenLayers to the admin in the past couple of weeks (although I had heard it was coming), and although I knew there were some wonky problems with AppEngine and the ORM (which totally breaks everything), I didn’t know that just putting Guido and Malcom in the same room could produce the statement “hmm, that could be working in the next 4 days”.     I did have a suspicion that every developer in the room was working on a secret project, and a show of hands proved it was correct.

Cal Henderson is damn funny for a guy who hates Django almost as much as smug rails developers.  He not only carries a sack of infinite insider jokes, he’s a serious business kinda guy.   Watch out or he’ll add FL to all your words.

If there has to be a mascot, it should really be a dingo, and it doesn’t have to have magical powers.  Just saying dingo entertains, and if you say it AND django in rapid succession, you’ll be surprised at the result.   Try it.  Right now.   Really.   Do it.

Last night after HackNight, I stayed up until 5am.  I cleaned my home office for a while, peeked in my newly arrived dojo book (Mastering Dojo),  and got free tickets for DjangoCon 2008!!   The second batch will be released at 6:00pm (UTC) – August 1st, 2008.   This is django’s first conference (and 1.0 release party!), and it is being held at the GooglePlex in Mountain View on the 6th and 7th of September.   If you’re interested in going,  and you should be if you are doing any django or appengine stuff.   I suggest getting on #django on freenode a few minutes before they release the tickets.  The server was -slammed- this morning, and there was no way to get to the registration url until it was pasted into IRC. Bryan Veloso, I owe you a beer.