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Just found out that one of the developers of Monologista SA (stand alone) and Monologista GAE has written a book on Django in Japanese. A full 520 pages based on the trunk version and not 0.96. Very cool.

The book is a collaborative effort of four folks, including Masuda-san who lead the translation of django documentation into Japanese at Django-JP. Another one is from a blog I’ve been reading for a while, largely due to this post. I recognize the last name but can’t say I know much about him.

The book is not on sale quite yet, but will be available any day now. Of course, if you don’t read Japanese it may not be very helpful. ^_^; I think I’d like to get one. Wonder if my credit card in Japan is still active…..

As we were talking about it, voluntas mentioned that he had finished coding version 2 of Monologista GAE. They are working on some design changes before they update the live version. He also mentioned that he’s writing up deployment/installation documentation and I agreed to translate it into English for him. Actually, I was one of the first translators of Plone into Japanese way back when.

Yesterday, I saw over on GAE Monologista that voluntas submitted an update using the api (JSON only for the gae version). I did some googling but couldn’t figure out how to do it. So, I broke down and asked…..

Voluntas was kind enough to point me in two directions. The first was a firefox addon called poster. By the time I got it downloaded and installed into firefox, he then pointed my to a small python program he created, here. So I did that first. Works like a charm!

In the lost version of this blog, I had a post on monologista, a twitter-like clone built in Django. I even had a screenshot and I had begun a simple english how-to. Then, came along GAE and I got distracted.

Monologistaの皆様、ごめんなさいね。しかも、GAE版がある気がつくのも遅かったな。　

So the other day I posted about Meow, a twitter-like clone running on GAE. I thought it was pretty darn cool until about 15 minutes ago. Since Twitter was done (suprise), I decided to go take a look at monologista. I noticed that some one had mentioned a version that ran on GAE, so I headed over to the monologista trac.

Sure enough there was a link to http://monologista.appspot.com/. Sure enough, monologista running on google app engine. As far as I poked around, there isn’t any “following” on the GAE version while there is on the django version. Thinking about it, moew and twig don’t have it either. There must be something about GAE that makes it difficult. <-- you would think that somebody who is "watching" 4 people would realize that monologista does in fact have "following. Dunce. What it doesn't have are the little profile pics that twitter has. Then again, that my be part of twitters problem, eh?

On the trac server there is an API thingie for monologista and you get an API Key when you register for the monologista on gae. In fact, you, as with all GAE applications, login with a google account, but then create a “username” or nickname used for posting. To the right of the posts, there is a little profile box that tells you who you ware watching, etc. In that box, is your API Key.

I haven’t read the documentation yet, so I’m not really sure what you can do with the API Key.

Would be nice if there was a rss feed or something that I could plug into my webpage or blog. Then again, just the existence of monologista on GAE is more than I could have every asked.