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21st January 2009 - Link Blog

Train Crash Leads LA Times to Create Django Database on Deadline. A story from last September. I didn’t know the LA Times used Django. UPDATE: Yes I did, I introduced their panel about it at DjangoCon. Sorry, mind like a sieve sometimes.

Posted 21st January 2009 at 5:19 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 21st January 2009.

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