Jacob Kaplan-Moss: April 2009

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OpenSourceOnResumes:Writing - MozillaWiki

Good advice on how to put Open Source experience on your resume.

Candygram

An implementation of Erlang-style concurrency for Python. Processes are implemented on top of threads, unfortunately, so there's a pretty low limit on the level of concurrency, which illustrates the problems with “porting” a concept like this between languages. Still the API is relatively sane, and with some work on the underlying model — perhaps a switch to select/epoll — this could be a very nice addition to the Python concurrency toolkit.

(concurrency, programming, python)

Iowa Court Voids Gay Marriage Ban - NYTimes.com

Hooray!

(civilrights, marriage)

Matt Legend Gemmell – MGTemplateEngine - Templates with Cocoa

A Django-ish template language for Cocoa.

(cocoa, django, libraries, programming, template)

A Whole Lotta Nothing: This is how Social Media really works

Matt Haughey: “maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products”

(business, howto, media, pr, socialmedia, twitter)

Rabbits and warrens. - Jason’s .plan

A good introduction to message queues, specifically RabbitMQ.

(amqp, messaging, mq, python, rabbitmq, tutorial)

Scrapy – Trac

Interesting: “an open source web crawling and screen scraping framework written in Python.”

(crawler, framework, parser, programming, python, scraper, screenscraping, spider)

hatful of hollow - Visualising Sorting Algorithms

Really awesome, and I think I finally understand how heapsort works. Oh, and it comes with bonus Python+Cairo examples.

(algorithms, code, computerscience, datastructures, programming, python, sorting, visualization)

Rands In Repose: The Pond

Rands completely nails the trials and tribulations of working remotely. When it works, it works wonderfully (c.f. open source) but it takes a high level of commitment from everyone involved.

(jobs, telecommuting, work)

The Monster List of Freelance Job Sites - 2009 Update - FreelanceSwitch - The Freelance Blog

(freelancing, gigs, job, list)

Arabic Bites: 10 Minutes Dough or as I call it all Purpose Dough

Makes a perfectly passable pizza dough in about 20 minutes.

(baking, cooking, pizza, recipe)

DIY High-Speed Book Scanner from Trash and Cheap Cameras

Wow, major WANTage here. I bought a ScanSnap about a year ago, and it's been worth its weight in gold: having all my paper documents available on my laptop available for searching is invaluable. It'd be simply amazing to be able to do a similar thing with all my books.

(book, diy, scanner)

Some Notes on Distributed Key Stores « random($foo)

I really have to find the time to check out Tokyo Cabinet.

(datastores, keyvalue, scaling, tokyocabinet)

The key lesson I learned building PolitiFact: Demos, not memos | mattwaite.com

I have an enormous amount of respect for folks like Matt who can just shut up and Get Shit Done. Every minute spent thinking about the “best” or “right” way to do something is a minute you haven't spent actually building it. Matt's completely right: building a demo is the best way to prove an idea, even if the only audience for the demo is you.

(development, journalism, politifact)

A Painful Decision « A Fresh Cup

The Rails community drives away another brilliant mind: “A significant number of Rails core contributors - with leadership (if that’s the right word) from DHH - apparently feel that being unwelcoming and “edgy” is not just acceptable, but laudable. The difference between their opinions and mine is so severe that I cannot in good conscience remain a public spokesman for Rails.”

(rails, ruby, sexism)

Catherine: pyOraGeek: right to complaint

“The key is the right to complain safely. When complaints are predictably met with accusations of “overreacting”, “political correctness”, and “intolerance”, the resulting message is: Be like us, be silent, or leave.”

(community, gender, railsmalefail)

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Hooray for standards

Hey, look, it’s a new W3C site.

(standards, w3c, xhtml)

Nobody expects Python packaging!

Python has one package distribution system: source files and setup.py install. And easy_install. Python has two package distribution systems…

(funny, packaging, python)

Developing Django apps with zc.buildout

Over the weekend I put together django-shorturls, the latest in a series of small plugable Django apps I’ve written. This time, though, I used zc.buildout and djangorecipe to build, test, package, and distribute the app, and (with the exception of a few annoyances) it’s an exceedingly civilized way to develop an app.

(buildout, django)

More buildout notes

I got a lot of great feedback on my buildout tutorial I posted last week. In general, the comments there have some excellent tips, tricks, and extra pointer, so check ‘em out. After reading the comments and a few more I got over email, I thought I’d share a selected grab-bag of updates, hints, and details for those fooling around with Buildout and Django.

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