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What Should I Read Next has its millionth visit
A year after its launch the What Should I Read Next? site is still going from strength to strength and we are delighted to announce it has just received its millionth visitor.

Tue 14 Nov 2006

Clinical Indications Website Launched
We are pleased to announce the launch of the clinical indications website for Dr Nigel Masters and NHS Innovation South East. It is hoped the site will serve to promote the use of clinical indications on prescriptions in both the UK and abroad.

Fri 3 Nov 2006

Clinical Indications Website
James Gardner is developing a website in collaboration with NHS Innovations South East and Dr Nigel Masters of Highfield Surgery, High Wycombe to promote clinical indications, an innovative idea which represents a significant change in prescribing in the UK.

Mon 2 Oct 2006

O'Reilly XML.com Articles
O'Reilly have published the first article in a two part mini-series written by James Gardner. Read WSGI: Python's Secret Web Weapon.

Wed 27 Sept 2006

This One Next
We are pleased to announce This One Next, the of the successor to the hugely popular What Should I Read Next? site. This One Next can recommend what to read, play or watch next.

The site, written in Pylons, also offers a combined mode for registered users to obtain recommendations based on other media types, for example obtaining a book recommendation based on their taste in music.

Registered users will find their What Should I Read Next favorites list available in This One Next.

Tue 1 Aug 2006

Pylons 0.9 Released
We are pleased to announce the release of Pylons 0.9. This release is backwards compatible with Pylons 0.8 and additional features including an improved templating system with built-in caching and the ability to run Web Server Gateway Interface applications as Pylons controllers. As usual this release includes the powerful AJAX interactive web based debugger and support for Kid, Myghty and Cheetah templating languages.

Mon 31 July 2006

EuroPython Conference Presentations
James Gardner presented two talks to the conference delegates at CERN in Geneva. The talks covered the Web Server Gateway Interface and the Pylons Web Framework. See the slides.

Mon 31 July 2006

Quick Wiki Tutorial
Our tutorial on how to create a functioning wiki with the Pylons web framework has been adopted as part of the Pylons documentation. Read it here.

Mon 24 July 2006

Pylons 0.8 Released
Pylons 0.8 was released today and represents the first major public release of the powerful Pylons web framework. You can read the full release announcement but key features include a full Web Server Gateway Interface stack, integration of the Myghty templating system and easy distribution of packages using easy_install.

Wed 15 Mar 2006

Institute of Child Health - Research Management System
James Gardner is currently working for the Institute of Child Health in London to develop a web based research management system using Apache, Python and PostgreSQL.

Thur 23 Feb 2006

Pylons
3aims are working on a new web development mega-framework named Pylons combining the very best from the worlds of Rails, Python and Perl. Look out for a 0.1 release shortly.

Wed 4 Jan 2006

Aedeas Partnership Announced
We are pleased to announce a collaboration with Aedeas Group in San Francisco. We are jointly developing a product named Life Project which will combine life tracking tools with community features. More details will be emerging soon.

Wed 20 Oct 2005

Mythic Beasts Server
We are pleased to announce the purchase of a new server from Mythic Beasts who are an experienced hosting company who are involved in broad range of projects including My Society and Downing Street Says.

The new server will enable us to provide a broader range of products and services.

Tue 27 Sept 2005

What Should I Read Next
Our latest project What Should I Read Next? coded for Andrew Chapman and Paul Lenz from Thoughtplay has generated internet-wide interest. The site is currently the most popular on del.icio.us and is being blogged worldwide. Jason Kottke sums it up best here with:

What should I read next? is what it says...you enter the title and author of a book you like and the site will suggest something for you to read next.

Cool Hunting says:

What Should I Read Next? is a little gift from the Database Gods

For the techies among you the project is developed using XML web services on our Bricks software.

Thur 22 Sept 2005

Django

Django is a Python Web Framework, very similar to our own software Bricks, and is generating a lot of interest in the wider community. It has drawn comparisons to the ever popular Ruby on Rails. James Gardner went along with people from Torchbox to the meetup in London to find out more. Photos here and here.

Mon 5 Sept 2005