I just finished adding Lijit support to one of the BarDiver.com RSS feeds.

Lijit is a new service that aggregates your online identities and makes them searchable. You can get more information on Lijit here.

Lijit can use any RSS feed as and identity but with just a little extra work you can add meta information to that RSS feed to add even more value. The Lijit developers RSS page has all the info but the basics are straight forward. For every <item> in the RSS feed add a <category> tag that contains either the text ".good" or ".bad". For an example check out my BarDiver.com profile visited bars feed. You can see the results here. Those little green and yellow markers show that you got it right.

Lijit is a great service that I can really see taking off. I hope this encourages more developers to add Lijit support to their RSS feeds.

Back in September I said that I was working on a surprise project. Well today I am happy to announce that BarDiver.com has officially launched. BarDiver.com is a community driven search site to help you find local bars that have the features and atmosphere you like.

For this first release I am keeping BarDiver.com focused on Colorado only. If that is a success and I get interest to open BarDiver.com for another city/state I will absolutely do that. So please, check out the site and if you think your area could use BarDiver.com, let me know.

BarDiver.com is built using the Django web framework. Django was instrumental in getting the site up fast. I cannot get over how great Django is to work with. I was able to use many of the goodies built into Django instead of writing them (again) myself. Some of these things are the authentication, comments, sites, flatpages and of course the admin user interface. I am really looking forward to the many cool new things that are being worked on in the seperate Django branches, such as Multiple Database Support, and Generic Authorization.

I hope you enjoy BarDiver.com

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I am proud to release yet another Django powered web site. Copper Conferencing went live last night. (twentystar) and I turned this site out in record time.

We have at least two more sites that are very close to being released and one really BIG surprise coming in the near future.

A while back I purchased a new computer from Open Sense Solutions. I was tired of Linux hardware compatibility problems and I wanted something that was guaranteed to just work out of the box. Not long after I had the machine OSS contacted me with a survey. Now you can see my testimonial on the front page of their web site.

I have wanted to write a review of my new machine, but I just haven't got around to it. But as you can tell from my testimonial, I really like it.

I am going to The Future of Web Apps conference this September and I was wondering if any other Django peeps were going to be there.

I hope to hear some stories and advice from people who have had success in this business. I also hope to pimp my super secret new web site. Built with Django of course.

I will be in San Francisco for the 2 days of the conference and I will be sticking around till Sunday to explore the city and eat a ton of sea food. So if there are any like minded Django fans that are going to be in town, maybe we can meet up for a drink one night.