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Lightning Talks
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1. Redis and Protocol Buffers
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Presented by Joshua Ginsberg
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Protocol buffers from Google.

    * Non-human-readable :(
    * 1.25M records takes up about 250MB of memory.
    * Protocol versioning is built-in

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2. Managing Servers
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Presented by Nate Aune
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How to make deployment a non-event?

.. note:: http://bit.ly/php-to-django

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3. The CMS that doesn't do anything
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Philo

Template designers can customize how model instances are embedded per template

Template designers are in charge of how content is interpreted

http://philocms.org

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4. Making small, positive changes
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Presented by Steve Holden
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* We can make a positive difference in many ways.

* Doing so is good for us and good for our community.

* Tell people what to do.

    * They need some encouragement.

.. note:: Alex Gaynor is the Django community's standard equivalent of a kitten.

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5. Backbone.js with Django and Tastypie
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Two things needed to make it work:

* change backbone sync method
* override url and parse from the sources