My 8 year daughter is participating in after school activities for outstanding students here in Netanya_. When we couldn’t open the files she created at home I’ve started rallying the troops.

When got notified about Django 1.6’s string freeze, I was shocked to find out that the overall Hebrew status was at 7%! Further investigation revealed the situation was not grave.

django-bidi-utils is a small app I’ve written long time ago. It provides a Context Processor and a filter, helping with development of BiDi Django templates. As I’ve wanted a chance to play with Cookiecutter, it was a good chance to update things and release 1.0 along the way.

A couple of months ago I’ve wrote about missing RTL support for the new Disqus. That support has been implemented since then, with one little nagging translation issue remaining.

I got my 1st computer at the age of 13, been programming since then. My last birthday marked 30 years of code.

Old Disqus added the content to the page, thus allowing customization of the comments system, which is what I’ve done for proper Right-to-left layout. With the new Disqus that’s not an option any more.

Whatsup.org.il was served by Ubuntu 6.06 for a very long time. Had hard time getting to the hosting location, but upgrade was long over due.

My contract with the Open Knesset has ended at April 2013. Let’s summarize.

Many Open Source projects start their life as an itch to scratch, but once they grow, a little marketing effort can get them to the next stage, specially in a crowded niche.