A big thanks to David Martorana of Code Contortionist and Johnny Bilotta of Johnny Nines for putting some BarDiver.com coaster to good use in their first video podcast, Two Guys On Beer. Check out the Stout Shootout! to learn about some Irish Stout and find out which one our hosts prefer. And if you want to check out the bar they are filming in, make your way over to National Mechanics.

This is going to be one busy weekend. Friday after work I am going to Coors Field to watch the Rockies vs. the Devil Rays. I am driving straight from the game to DIA to catch the red eye into Logan where I will pick up my rental car and go directly to the Django in June un-conference.

I am really looking forward to this. It will be great to meet some of the great people in the Django community. I also hope to meet some people in Boston that might be interested in helping me populate boston.bardiver.com with some more great bars. To ensure that this happens I will also be bringing with me some BarDiver.com Schwag to give out. ;)

Once the conference is done with I will be driving up to New Hampshire to play golf with my Dad on Fathers Day. This should be a lot of fun. This will be the 3rd time I have played this year. After that and a quick visit with my Grandmother, I will be driving back into Boston to catch my flight back to Denver. Sunday night I might actually get 8 hours of sleep before I have to be at work again on Monday morning.

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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