Leah Culver recently released a piece of django code for PSNs to Google Code. PSN stands for Portable SocialNets in that people say this is my username on twitter and django does shit and stuff. Because I really hate myself I decided to read Culvers code to see the light. What I found was love... in comment form:

    def _get_verified_urls(self):   
        verified_urls = []
        # http://facebook.com/profile?id=23423434
        for sn in self.user.social_network_profiles.all():
            if sn.is_verified:
                verified_urls.append(sn.profile_url)
        # aim:bradfitzpatrick
        for im in self.user.instant_messenger_profiles.all():
            if im.is_verified:
                verified_urls.append('%s:%s' % (im.messenger_id, im.username))
        # http://bradfitz.com/
        for w in self.user.website_profiles.all():
            if w.is_verified:
                verified_urls.append(w.url)
        return verified_urls
    verified_urls = property(_get_verified_urls)

Nothing says I love you like references in socialnet code.

This ends our completely useless gossip section for the afternoon.