Comments on: L.A. Times Dog Database Improves On Old Tricks http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/08/01/la-times-dog-names-database/ Where Ideas For Online News Bounce Around Mon, 18 Jul 2011 14:36:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Chrys http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/08/01/la-times-dog-names-database/comment-page-1/#comment-55 Chrys Fri, 29 Aug 2008 03:26:38 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=182#comment-55 Thanks for mentioning jobs at the Vegas Sun. Hope things are going well with learning Django. There's plenty of guidance both online and off. Search the terms "<a href="http://is.gd/21CY" rel="nofollow">Django users</a>" or "<a href="http://is.gd/21De rel="nofollow">Django users group</a>" along with your city name to find meetups and help.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-55">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> Thanks for mentioning jobs at the Vegas Sun. Hope things are going well with learning Django. There’s plenty of guidance both online and off. Search the terms “Django users” or “Django users group” along with your city name to find meetups and help.

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]]> By: jessica durkin http://www.chryswu.com/blog/2008/08/01/la-times-dog-names-database/comment-page-1/#comment-53 jessica durkin Sat, 16 Aug 2008 04:55:11 +0000 http://www.chryswu.com/blog/?p=182#comment-53 This is a well-written story, Chrys. Although the material is still over my head. I am your garden-variety newspaper reporter who knows very little about creating databases for the internet, much less multimedia. But I am learning, and I hope by this time next year I will be able to download Django, understand it, and make it useful to my beat. Incidentally, that news Web guru guy Rob Curley is hiring reporters for the Las Vegas Sun's multimedia/Web oriented stuff (see http://www.robcurley.com/ "Team Vegas is adding a few good news nerd"), and one of the job requirements is knowing Django.<p class="top-comments">Current score: <span class="top-comments-karma" id="karma-53">0</span> <small>(to vote for this comment, please visit the site)</small></p> This is a well-written story, Chrys. Although the material is still over my head. I am your garden-variety newspaper reporter who knows very little about creating databases for the internet, much less multimedia. But I am learning, and I hope by this time next year I will be able to download Django, understand it, and make it useful to my beat. Incidentally, that news Web guru guy Rob Curley is hiring reporters for the Las Vegas Sun’s multimedia/Web oriented stuff (see http://www.robcurley.com/ “Team Vegas is adding a few good news nerd”), and one of the job requirements is knowing Django.

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