A discussion with Harper Reed, CTO of Threadless.com and the creator of the Google App Engine/Django powered Excla.im jabber bot for Twitter messaging.
Exla.im is a somewhat new project for Reed. He took the opportunity, thanks to pressure from his peers, to give Django a try and as you’ll tell when listening – he absolutely loves it. Excla.im runs on Google App Engine and employs the google-app-engine-django to ease the process of creating a Django project to run on the Google App Engine.
After inventing crowdsourcing with the Threadless, Harper Reed managed Obama’s data driven re-election campaign. So to speak, the fate of the world was in his hands. Therefore, failure was no option! For the first time in Berlin, Harper Reed gave a talk at NEXT13 on April 23, 2013 on how he succeeded as Obama’s CTO and on the three things that make up a good product:
/ build a great team / practice failure / microlistening
Audio rip, original here: http://nextberlin.eu/2013/04/harper-reed-big-data/
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This week, Greg talks with Daniel Lindsley, the owner of the Django consultancy Toast Driven and creator of the open-source Django app Tastypie about APIs and Django.
http://3rdaverad.io/shows/django-podcast/episodes/apis-and-tastypie/
The story of Django; where it came from and how a local newspaper in Kansas ended up running a successful open-source project.
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