appengine vs twitter part 2
I've created a project in launchpad for Meow. You can now submit bug reports and feature requests into launchpad.If your a Django or Appengine hacker and want to help me out, simply branch the Meow...
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What can I say about the iphone 3g that hasn't been said. All I can say is I want one and I want to develop on it.The one thing that sold me was the true GPS support. This thing is going to herald in...
View ArticleTemplate Tag Caveat
In the Django template system. There is a small caveat that you need to recognize when developing your own template tags.When Django parses the Node tree it creates a template.Node instance for each...
View ArticleFun with APIs
So, you're looking for a job you say... Need to brush up on your knowledge set... I've got the tool for you!career_chooser.pyimporturllibimportreimportsysimportcgiAPI_KEY="USE YOUR...
View ArticleUnderstanding PSQL's MVCC
Understanding PSQL's MVCCPostgresSQL implements something called MVCC. Which alleviates the need for a Read-Lock in many cases. However when Glenn Franxman and I were trying to figure out how this...
View ArticleFind the number of days until next day of week
I've had to figure this out before and I forgot it. Here it is preserveddefdaysuntilnextdow(start,next):"""Determine how many days until the next Day of week start: The day of the week to start from...
View ArticlePDB and django.test.client
So you have a site in production and someone called you up that there is a bug on the site. Your template designer is trying to make a change to a template and the change is isn't showing up on the...
View ArticlePython Encodings and Unicode
I am sure there has been a number of explanations on Unicode and Python but I'm going to do a little write up for my own sake.Byte Streams VS Unicode ObjectsLet's start by defining what a string in...
View ArticleAnnouncing django-viewtools
Hi, I'm announcing a project I have called django-viewtoolsdjango-viewtools provides a management command to help in debugging and profiling viewsOverviewdjango-viewtools provides a number of...
View ArticleWhy REST?
PrefaceI have to say before you read this that I only have a theoritical understanding of how a web service benefits for being RESTful. Most of the topics I have explored are actually explained in Roy...
View ArticleBooks every self-taught computer scientist should read
There are three books that I believe that every self-taught computer scientist should read. These are books that I often recommend to smart junior developers that learned their knowledge by doing...
View ArticleLearning Python Logging
The Python logging module is often a source of confusion with developers. Often, logging is the final thought in a project. When we are finishing up a project, the last thing we want to do is sift...
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Websocket Demo Results V2
tr { text-align: right; } HistoryRoughly about a month ago I wondered if Erlang's promise of massive concurrency was actually true. Rather than take everyone's word for it, inspired by Richard Jones'...
View ArticleEasy ETL with RDF and Python
So I have been tasked with optimizing our deployment pipeline. It is pretty obvious to us where the bottlenecks are but trying to be a data driven developer I needed to collect stats on the current...
View ArticleHydra lite
For the past year or so I have been working with JSON-LD and Hydra. I have been an internal zealot for using JSON-LD and Hydra for building hypermedia services but I have been met with indifference for...
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Linking in Hydra
Please note that in order to keep the JSON concise, I've omitted the JSON-LD @context and used standard naming.I had a conversation with a coworker about using JSON-LD and Hydra to add hypermedia to an...
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