Expert Python Programming
By Tarek Ziade
ISBN: 978-1-847194-94-7
Release date: September 2008
Packt Publishing

A couple of weeks ago, Niraja Mulye from Packt Publishing sent me a copy of Expert Python Programming by Tarek Ziade and asked me to review it.

 To put it simple, the book is fabulous, not because it's full of advanced python programming tricks and practices, but also because they're presented in a way that makes them easy and interesting to follow.

As the name of the book intends, it's aimed for python developers who want to be more efficient and productive. The book is divided to 14 chapters, and even though ...

In this episode you'll learn how to create custom template tags and filters and how to use them in your django projects...

You can watch the episode online from here... (sorry for the low volume)

Django Tips - Tip #4 - Part 1 from Beshrkayali on Vimeo.

or download it here (iPhone/iPod Touch ready).

download the project used in this episode (eventsbox) from here.

I know there's a lot of free weblog designs available here and there, I just wanted to make my own :)

I'm using this design for my weblog (you're in it right now :P), you can download it from here.

You can use it for free, change it for your own use... just say that you got it from here :)

Hello all :)

Okay, so I started Django Tips Podcast about two months ago (or more) and made three episodes and then stopped. I don't want to start making lame execuses for this, but the good news is it's coming back :)

It won't take more than a week (maybe less) to get going with it. So get ready :)

Note: Sorry Apple, if you just allowed us in (our) countries to download (free apps and games at least) we wouldn’t need to go such bad ways…

Two days ago I got an iPod touch 2G after reading so many good things about it. I was planning –like so many people- to install some of the free apps and games that are available for it, but what I didn’t know (and I didn’t expect actually) is that because I’m in Syria, I can’t install free stuff from Apple’s App Store. I read about jailbreaking, but I don’t want to do that! I just want free stuff!
I use anonymous proxy software to access services like Google Code (which is blocked by Google ...