We’ve just put up our last project – part of our multi-faceted join-flow redesign – with Mark before he was hired away by some unknown startup.

Mark was key to our redesign back in March 2007, and he helped translate the ideas and brand we had bouncing around in our collective heads into a coherent message and design. We loved collaborating with him–he willingly shared his branding and experience with us while he incorporated our specific design ideas.

We were quite proud when we unveiled the new Fluther based on his mock-ups and the site worked (and felt!) better than all three of us had imagined, and we’re proud to count Mark as one of our friends.

Congratulations on your new job, Mark, and we can’t wait to see you soon!

In case you’ll be in Denver on Nov. 3rd-4th, you should check it out. I think it’s going to be an incredible conference, and I’m not just saying that because I’m involved.

Also, you can use my discount code bf1 to get $200 off tickets.

Thanks, everyone!

The one thing I was really missing in vim, though, was solid code-completion feature. After much haranguing, I finally figured out how to enable omnicomplete with django.

Download and install vim for OS X

• By far the easiest way to get a version of vim that has python compiled is through macports.

  sudo port install vim +python
  

• Now replace your old version of vim in your default path (useful for when a shell command calls vim as the editor)

  sudo cp /usr/bin/vim /usr/bin/vim7.0
  sudo cp /opt/local/bin/vim /usr/bin/vim
  

• Verify that you have python compiled by typing :python print “Hello” while in vim

Enable omnicompletion

• I’ve enabled omnicomplete for a bunch of different different completers. Add these lines to your .vimrc:

  autocmd FileType python set omnifunc=pythoncomplete#Complete
  autocmd FileType javascript set omnifunc=javascriptcomplete#CompleteJS
  autocmd FileType html set omnifunc=htmlcomplete#CompleteTags
  autocmd FileType css set omnifunc=csscomplete#CompleteCSS
  

Run vim so that you can actually complete django files

• Omnicomplete imports the modules behind the scenes to help you with completion. Problem is, it won’t be able to import django.db since you don’t have a settings module specified… so any module that imports models won’t work. Not very useful.

  DJANGO_SETTINGS_FILE=myapp.settings vim
  

• Verify that imports will work by typing :python from django import db
• Now you can just press <C-X><C-O> to omnicomplete!

I also highly recommend the rope plugin for vim. It simplifies opening files within your project, and even will organize your imports! for you!

We’ve also recently updated the guidelines.

We hope you enjoy how easy it is to return to your addiction!

Django just reached the big 1.0 marker, and we wanted to say, “Congratulations!”

Thanks to the team for all their amazing work. We tip our collective hat to you.

We’ll be going to the Django conference this weekend, and we look forward to meeting everyone in person.

Here are the answers:

Category 1: What does it mean when a guy you met once at a party keeps sending you cake every 4 months over the course of 2 years, but otherwise does not get in touch at all? And doesn’t ask you out either…

Category 2: How do you pick the perfect watermelon?

Category 3: “your fluther”

Bonus: Ladies, why do you put your loose strands of hair on the shower wall?

Despite the number of entries, only two had all four categories correct. The real X-factor turned out to be Erik’s question (go figure).

We proudly announce that our winner (by flip of the coin), is PupnTaco! Hooray!

Runner up: uberbatman

On June 24 at 7:39 PM, our very own bulbatron9 had a little baby girl.

Congratulations, bulbatron, from all of us at team Fluther!

Kudos to uberbatman for blowing our minds using the Spore Creature Creator.

Can you find yourself in phoenyx’s collage? Don’t feel slighted if you didn’t make it. If every user was included, the collage would require over 12 million pixels.

Send us screen captures of your desktop after you set one of these amazing wallpapers, or create your own…

Remember that question: Can the Fluther collective write a coherent story? Well, the collective did write a story. And it was awesome. So awesome, in fact, that it was published. We know, it’s rad.

We tip our hat to richardhenry for putting this all together. We must commend everyone who was involved—you all are the coolest. And to all you now-published Flutherites: congratulations! A free download is available, or you can order a printed copy(!). Check it out!