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Bookmarked March 31st, 2008 at 8:35 a.m.
The Review Board team have extracted some of the utilities they wrote into an external library. Neat code; unfortunate name.
Ian Bicking: Python HTML Parser Performance
Bookmarked March 30th, 2008 at 10:13 p.m.
The short version: lxml kicks ass.
rec.gambling.blackjack FAQ
Bookmarked March 30th, 2008 at 8:02 p.m.
I learned to play Blackjack (well) from this FAQ. Neat to run across it again.
Proven Corporation » Blog » Sphinx Templates
Bookmarked March 29th, 2008 at 3:12 p.m.
Some nice notes on how the Sphinx templates are laid out.
Alice Walker on Obama | Views | TheRoot.com
Bookmarked March 28th, 2008 at 11:10 p.m.
Alice Walker's wonderful endorsement of Obama: "If Obama were in any sense mediocre, he would be forgotten by now. He is, in fact, a remarkable human being, not perfect but humanly stunning, like King was and like Mandela is."
Hairy ball theorem - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Bookmarked March 27th, 2008 at 1:19 p.m.
"A hairy doughnut, on the other hand, is quite easily combable."
Amazon Web Services Developer Connection : Feature Guide: Amazon EC2 Elastic IP Addresses
Bookmarked March 27th, 2008 at 8:17 a.m.
Elastic IP addresses are static IP addresses designed for dynamic cloud computing. An Elastic IP address is associated with your account, not a particular instance..." This is really big deal; it'll make hosting sites solely on AWS much easier.
Expired-Tired-Wired
Bookmarked March 26th, 2008 at 1:05 p.m.
In a sign of its continuing descent into irrelevancy, Wired magazine features Django in its Expired/Tired/Wired bit. Snark aside, though, this is pretty damn cool.
A Faster Django Test Suite | oebfare
Bookmarked March 26th, 2008 at 11:07 a.m.
Run Django's tests on multiple cores for better performance. I suspect much of testing is io-bound, but this is still a nifty trick.
mail-trends - Google Code
Bookmarked March 25th, 2008 at 2:37 p.m.
Really nifty visualization for email, generated by looking at an IMAP server.
Yahoo! UI (YUI) + Django templates == Google Code project! FTW! | Ryan Kanno: The diary of an Enginerd in Hawaii
Bookmarked March 21st, 2008 at 3:59 p.m.
A series of base templates that implement YUI grid layouts. Neat.
Ian Bicking: a blog :: Prism
Bookmarked March 21st, 2008 at 3:58 p.m.
"If you hate the web [...] I don’t want anything to do with you." Word.
Coding Horror: Does More Than One Monitor Improve Productivity?
Bookmarked March 19th, 2008 at 8:25 a.m.
I don't understand why there's so much debate about this: more screen real estate is simply a negligable cost even for a tiny performance increase. Wonder if my 30" is here yet...
Totally maladroit!: django+jython+jetty
Bookmarked March 19th, 2008 at 7:48 a.m.
Django on Jython in Jetty (say that ten times fast!) It's looking like PyCon 2008 is the year of Django on alternate VMs.
Wikihistory
Bookmarked March 18th, 2008 at 5:55 p.m.
"Everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what's the harm?"
[Python-Dev] PEP 361: Python 2.6/3.0 release schedule
Bookmarked March 18th, 2008 at 5:50 p.m.
"Executive summary: Python 2.6 and 3.0 finals are planned for September 3, 2008." Woo!!
Support Bruce Perens in his run for the OSI board.
Bookmarked March 18th, 2008 at 5:24 p.m.
"Hi, this is Bruce Perens. I need your signature to help me protect Open Source."
Dino's Blog : IronPython, MS SQL, and PEP 249
Bookmarked March 18th, 2008 at 11:19 a.m.
How to run Django (0.96) on IronPython, including an MSSQL backend.
John MacFarlane - html2rst
Bookmarked March 18th, 2008 at 10:52 a.m.
HTML to reST convertor. Which would be cool, but it's written in Haskell and OCaml.
programming: Pycon 2008 disappointment
Bookmarked March 18th, 2008 at 2:57 a.m.
In which people say nice things about me on reddit. Really!
Elegant Stitches
Bookmarked March 17th, 2008 at 7:18 p.m.
The folks that made the Django Ts and hats for PyCon, as well as all the great Python gear for sale. Great quality and great people!
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Bookmarked March 17th, 2008 at 4:06 p.m.
Cause of Death: Rounding Errors
De Vries Chocolate - 100 Years Behind the Times
Bookmarked March 16th, 2008 at 11:26 a.m.
Python Package Index : haufe.eggserver 0.1.10
Bookmarked March 15th, 2008 at 1:59 a.m.
haufe.eggserver is a tiny webfront to a local egg/sourcecode archive distribution directory (eggs and other distribution files stored directly on the filesystem).
The Adoption-Led Market [on Simon Phipps, SunMink]
Bookmarked March 13th, 2008 at 8:05 a.m.
Fantastically good thinking about how Open Source leads to a different — I'd say better — kind of software market.
Piston ~ Easy Vendor Branch Management
Bookmarked March 12th, 2008 at 11:09 a.m.
Like svn:externals, but managed internally. An interesting idea -- I'll have to give it a try.
furbo.org · Hello App Store
Bookmarked March 11th, 2008 at 12:06 p.m.
Good thoughts on the Apple Store. I disagree with the notion that a higher entry point leads to better quality, but overall I like Craig's thinking here.
Writing Python/C extensions by hand
Bookmarked March 11th, 2008 at 10:32 a.m.
An exploration of writing a Python/C extension in pure C versus using ctypes. The takeaway is that ctypes is slower, but easier.
Defying Classification: Queryset Implementation
Bookmarked March 11th, 2008 at 10:10 a.m.
Malcolm explains some of the problems (and solutions) he's working on in the qs-rf branch. Really great stuff -- Django's incredibly lucky to have him!
Repository - directory - public: enfold.solr/trunk/server
Bookmarked March 10th, 2008 at 11:41 p.m.
This is awesome: a complete Solr/Jetty setup. This is similar to what I've been using, but even nicer. Thanks, Joseph!
Angry-Fly.com: Getting MySQL Preference Pane To Work In Leopard
Bookmarked March 10th, 2008 at 4:43 p.m.
diffxml diffxml - XML Diff and Patch Utilities
Bookmarked March 10th, 2008 at 1:38 p.m.
Another XML diff tool; this one is apparently based on some pretty hard research.
xmldiff
Bookmarked March 10th, 2008 at 1:11 p.m.
"a python tool that figures out the differences between two similar XML files, in the same way the diff utility does" Seems a bit buggy, but might be useful
X.5 Time Machine (Quarter Life Crisis)
Bookmarked March 5th, 2008 at 1:22 p.m.
An amazingly in-depth look at how Time Machine works.
James Henstridge » Two‐Phase Commit in Python’s DB‐API
Bookmarked March 4th, 2008 at 9:03 a.m.
Two-phase commit proposal for Python. A bit esoteric, but this could help us crazy ORM weenies a bit.
ReadyNAS :: View topic - Making Time Machine work with the ReadyNAS
Bookmarked March 4th, 2008 at 12:33 a.m.
How to make Time Machine back up to your ReadyNAS. Slooooooow (especially over wifi), but far less fragile than just a single drive.
loonyblog. - random thoughts on games, art, geek culture and living in california. » Where no man has gone before.
Bookmarked March 3rd, 2008 at 2:50 p.m.
"I made a pact with myself to watch all of Star Trek. Not just a single episode, or series or movie, but the entire franchise, from start to finish." Good god.
blog.pmarca.com: An hour and a half with Barack Obama
Bookmarked March 3rd, 2008 at 2:47 p.m.
Like Marc, I try not to put my political views online. Like Marc, I'm overwhelmingly impressed with Obama. After reading this, I'm even more impressed.
RNV
Bookmarked March 2nd, 2008 at 9:55 a.m.
"RNV is an implementation of Relax NG Compact Syntax validator in ANSI C. The command-line utility uses Expat. It is distributed under BSD license." Sweet!
Secrets: index
Bookmarked March 1st, 2008 at 8:27 a.m.
Brilliant - a preference pane for "secret" system settings that anyone can contribute to.
