A PHP Guy’s Look At Python
Against all odds, I found myself with a little spare time this week. Rather than do something sensible like clean the garage or get some exercise, I... more »
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Sneaking Ruby Through Google App Engine
Despite all the clicking that has been done on a certain star.gif, I really don’t think Ruby is coming to Google’s App Engine. Google doesn’t have... more »
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Python Call Graph
pycallgraph is a Python library that creates call graphs for Python programs.
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Popularizing Django — Or Reusable apps considered harmful.
Let’s see what a Killer app gives you. 1. It fills a big niche, so people are forced to learn your language/framework. 2. It forces the... more »
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Compile Ruby to Python bytecode
Compile Ruby to Python bytecode. And, in addition, translate that bytecode back to Python source code using Decompyle (included.) Requires Ruby 1.9... more »
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Concurrency with Python, Twisted, and Flex
An example of parallel programming using all the CPUs on your computer or cluster. Also shows how to add a Flex user interface.
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Does Django really scale better than Rails?
Is Django/Python performance and scalability, compared to Rails/Ruby, fact or myth?
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Scalable Web Apps: Erlang + Python
This post describes how to create scalable web applications with Erlang and Python. Web applications, by nature, span two drastically different... more »
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Handy online regex tool for PHP, Perl, JS and Python
A coworker of mine has been working on a ajax enabled regex tool which lets you evaluate regex expressions in several languages (including PHP PCRE... more »
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Interview with James Bennett - Django release manager
James Bennett is the release manager of Django, and a long time contributor. He works on Ellington, a CMS designed for news organizations. His book,... more »
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Google App Engine: One-to-many JOIN
By now, no doubt, most developers have heard about the Google App Engine (GAE). And even if you didn't get one of the 10K free accounts, you might... more »
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Matisse Meets Jython
JyMatisse lets you create GUI forms in Netbeans Matisse but write the backing code in Python. I've just posted the project over at JavaForge.
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The Complete Guide to Django: Deploying and Tuning Django
I’ll share my experience for installing on this server Django with Apache mod_python, with memcached caching and lighttpd for serving static files.
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Ruby's Achilles Heel
Most folks point to Ruby's implementation, specifically MRI, as Ruby's greatest weakness. The good news is this is fixable and fixes are in the works.... more »
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Learning Python Design Patterns Through Video Lectures
The three lectures are given by Alex Martelli who works as tech lead for Google. Alex briefly covers the history and main principles of Design... more »
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Synoptic is “GMail for your notes”
It gives you an efficient and friendly interface that makes it possible to keep and categorize a large number of small-ish notes and tidbits of... more »
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DRY in Django views
A couple of days ago, a topic came up on the django-users mailinglist where someone asked how to avoid code repetition in views if the views mostly do... more »
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Five things I love about Django.
“Five things I love about Django". The Admin interface rocks Documentation is comprehensive, available, and always maintained
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RuPy 2008 Review
Review about the RuPy (Ruby & Python) conference 2008.
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Book Review: Teach Yourself Django in 24 Hours
In short this book deliver its promise of learning Django in short 24 hours. However I suggest you donate this copy away when you are done and... more »
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Five Things I Hate About Django.
But we do not know a topic, until we know it warts, so here you go. 1. Lack of identity map 2. Ajax with Django is hard ..............
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FriendFeed Django Application
Small django application that shows a lifestream configured in FriendFeed. Needs a bit of work but is looking good.
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Functions (python) versus blocks (ruby)
From the comments in my last post comes a discussion about the differences between python's functions and ruby's blocks. I still haven't wrapped my... more »
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Using Java (GWT) with Google App Engine (screencast)
Since Google App Engine (GAE) announcement many developers are wondering when/if Google App Engine will support Java. As we already know GAE currently... more »
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Java : if (compete with PHP / Ruby / Python) { stop fixing the syntax and start fixing the runtime }
A lot of people are wondering whether Java is under threat from a set of nimble languages - PHP / Ruby / Python / Perl. This post suggests the... more »
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